غَرِيفٌ
Root: غرف
Full Definition
غَرِيفٌ
: see what next precedes.
def.2 Also i. q. قَصْبَآءُ [i. e. Reeds, or canes; or a collection, or bed, thereof; or a place where reeds, or canes, grow]: and [the kind of high, coarse grass called] حَلْفَآء [q. v.]: and i. q. غَيْضَةٌ [i. e. a collection of tangled, or confused, or dense, trees; &c.]: (AHn, O, K, TA: [but for غَيْضَة, which is thus in the K accord. to the TA, as well as in the O, many of the copies of the K have غَيْفَة, a mistranscription:]) and water [in such a collection of trees, &c., i. e.,] in an أَجَمَة; thus expl. by Lth; said to have this meaning in a verse of El-Aashà; but pronounced by Az incorrect: and numerous tangled, or confused, or dense, trees, of any kind; as also
غَرِيفَةٌ : or a dense collection (أَجَمَةٌ) of papyrus-plants and of
حَلْفَآء [mentioned above] and of reeds, or canes; and sometimes of the [trees called] ضَال
and
سَلَم: pl. غُرُفٌ.
def.2 Also i. q. قَصْبَآءُ [i. e. Reeds, or canes; or a collection, or bed, thereof; or a place where reeds, or canes, grow]: and [the kind of high, coarse grass called] حَلْفَآء [q. v.]: and i. q. غَيْضَةٌ [i. e. a collection of tangled, or confused, or dense, trees; &c.]: (AHn, O, K, TA: [but for غَيْضَة, which is thus in the K accord. to the TA, as well as in the O, many of the copies of the K have غَيْفَة, a mistranscription:]) and water [in such a collection of trees, &c., i. e.,] in an أَجَمَة; thus expl. by Lth; said to have this meaning