غَفِيرٌ
Root: غفر
Full Definition
غَفِيرٌ
A helmet that encloses and embraces the whole head. AO says, in his “ Book on the Coat of Mail and the Helmet, ” that بَيْضَةٌ is a general name for a helmet, which has plates like the bones of the skull, fastened together, edge to edge, by nails.
2 جَاؤُوا جَمَّآءَ غَفِيرًا, and الجَمَّآءَ الغَفِيرَ, and جَمَّآءَ الغَفِيرِ, and جَمًّا غَفِيرًا, and الجَمَّ الغَفِيرَ, and جَمَّ الغَفِيرِ, and جَمَّآءَ , and جَمَّآءَ , and الجَمَّآءَ, and جَمَّآءَ , and جَمَّ , and بِجَمَّآءِ الغَفِيرِ, and بِجَمَّآءِ , are phrases meaning They came all together, high and low, none of them remaining behind, and they being many: accord. to Sb, it (الجمّآء الغفير, S, which is the only form that he mentions, TA, [or rather the former of these two words,]) is a subst., put in the place of an Verbal.Noun, i. e. put in the accus. case like an Verbal.Noun of the same meaning, i. e., [as when you say] مَرَرْتُ بِهِمْ جُمُومًا كَثِيرًا [I passed by them they being very many]: it is not a verb, [by which is here meant, as in many other instances, an Verbal.Noun,] but is put in the accus. case like an Verbal.Noun of the same meaning, as when you say جَاؤُونِى جَمِيعًا, and قَاطِبَةً, and طُرًّا, and كَافَّةً, [They came to me all together,] and the article ال is prefixed like as it is prefixed in the saying أَوْرَدَهَا العِرَاكَ, meaning أَوْرَدَهَا عِرَاكًا [He brought them to the water all together]: Sb says that it is one of those denotatives of state which have the art. ال prefixed, and is extr.; and that الغفير is an epithet inseparable from الجمّآء; meaning that you do not say الجمّآء and then be silent: others hold it to be an Verbal.Noun: IAmb allows it to be in the nom. case, on the condition that هُم is understood [before it; i. e., the complete phrase being جَاؤُوا هُمُ الجَمَّآءُ الغَفِيرُ]: and Ks says that the Arabs put الجمّاء الغفير in the accus. case فِى التَّمَامِ [i. e. in the case of its occurring after a proposition rendered complete by the mention of the agent. as when you say جَآءَ القَوْمُ الجَمَّآءَ الغَفِيرَ], and in the nom. case فِى النُّقْصَانِ [i. e. in the case of its occurring when what precedes it is not a complete proposition, and is only rendered complete by it as the agent, as when you say جَآءَ الجَمَّآءُ الغَفيِرُ].
3 It is said in a trad., that Mohammad, being asked by Aboo-Dharr, what was the number of the apostles, answered ثَلٰثُمِائَةٍ وَخَمْسَةَ عَشَرَ جَمَّ الغَفِيرِ, meaning, Three hundred and fifteen: a great number.
def.2 See also غَفَرٌ, first sentence.
2 جَاؤُوا جَمَّآءَ غَفِيرًا, and الجَمَّآءَ الغَفِيرَ, and جَمَّآءَ الغَفِيرِ, and جَمًّا غَفِيرًا, and الجَمَّ الغَفِيرَ, and جَمَّ الغَفِيرِ, and جَمَّآءَ , and جَمَّآءَ , and الجَمَّآءَ, and جَمَّآءَ , and جَمَّ , and بِجَمَّآءِ الغَفِيرِ, and بِجَمَّآءِ , are phrases meaning They came all together, high and low, none of them remaining behind, and they being many: accord. to Sb, it (الجمّآء الغفير, S, which is the only form that he mentions, TA, [or rather the former of these two words,]) is a subst., put in the place of an Verbal.Noun, i. e. put in the accus. case like an Verbal.Noun of the same meaning, i. e., [as when you say] مَرَرْتُ بِهِمْ جُمُومًا كَثِيرًا [I passed by them they being very many]: it is not a verb, [by which is here meant, as in many other instances, an Verbal.Noun,] but is put in the accus. case like an Verbal.Noun of the same meaning, as when you say جَاؤُونِى جَمِيعًا, and قَاطِبَةً, and طُرًّا, and كَافَّةً, [They came to me all together,] and the article ال is prefixed like as it is prefixed in the saying أَوْرَدَهَا العِرَاكَ, meaning أَوْرَدَهَا عِرَاكًا [He brought them to the water all together]: Sb says that it is one of those denotatives of state which have the art. ال prefixed, and is extr.; and that الغفير is an epithet inseparable from الجمّآء; meaning that you do not say الجمّآء and then be silent: others hold it to be an Verbal.Noun: IAmb allows it to be in the nom. case, on the condition that هُم is understood [before it; i. e., the complete phrase being جَاؤُوا هُمُ الجَمَّآءُ الغَفِيرُ]: and Ks says that the Arabs put الجمّاء الغفير in the accus. case فِى التَّمَامِ [i. e. in the case of its occurring after a proposition rendered complete by the mention of the agent. as when you say جَآءَ القَوْمُ الجَمَّآءَ الغَفِيرَ], and in the nom. case فِى النُّقْصَانِ [i. e. in the case of its occurring when what precedes it is not a complete proposition, and is only rendered complete by it as the agent, as when you say جَآءَ الجَمَّآءُ الغَفيِرُ].
3 It is said in a trad., that Mohammad, being asked by Aboo-Dharr, what was the number of the apostles, answered ثَلٰثُمِائَةٍ وَخَمْسَةَ عَشَرَ جَمَّ الغَفِيرِ, meaning, Three hundred and fifteen: a great number.
def.2 See also غَفَرٌ, first sentence.
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