قُرْفُصَآءُ
Root: قرفص
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قُرْفُصَآءُ
, with damm, [in a copy of the S written without any vowel-sign to the ف,] or قُرْفَصَآءُ, or both, and قُرُفْصَآءُ, with damm to the ق and ر, and قُرْفُصَى, and قِرْفِصَى, and قَرْقَصَى, of all which the first is the most chaste, [all inf. ns., of which the verb, accord. to analogy, is قَرْفَصَ, but I have met with no instance of its occurrence,] A certain mode of sitting; the sitting upon the buttocks, making the thighs cleave to the belly, and putting the arms round the shanks, like as a man binds himself with a piece of cloth round his back and shanks; his arms being in the place of the piece of cloth: or the sitting upon the knees, bending down, (مُنْكَبًّا, [in the L مُتَّكِئًا, which is a mistranscription,]) making the belly cleave to the thighs, and putting the hands under the arm-pits; a mode of
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