قُفَّازٌ
Root: قفز
Full Definition
قُفَّازٌ
A kind of glove; a thing which is made for the two hands, or hands and arms, stuffed with cotton, and having buttons which are buttoned upon the fore arms, worn by a woman as a protection from the cold; they are made of skins, and of felt; are worn by the women of the Arabs of the desert; and extend to the bones of the elbow: a pair of them is called قُفَّازَانِ: or a thing which the women of the Arabs of the desert make for themselves, stuffed with cotton, covering a woman's two hands, with her fingers, and, some add, having buttons upon the fore arm; like what the carrier of the falcon wears: or a thing which those women make for themselves, covering the fingers and hand and arm: and a thing which the sportsman [meaning the falconer] wears upon each hand, or hand and arm, of skin, or of felt, or wool: or a kind of women's ornament for the hands and feet, or the hands and arms and the feet and legs: and a reticulated iron thing (حَدِيدَةٌ مُشَبَّكَةٌ, accord. to the TA, as from the K, but in the CK مُشْتَبِكَةٌ,) upon which the falcon sits.
2 And [hence,] Whiteness in the أَشَاعِر [or hairs next the hoof] of a horse. (K. [See also قَفِزَ, and قُفَّزَ, and أَقْفَزُ.])
2 And [hence,] Whiteness in the أَشَاعِر [or hairs next the hoof] of a horse. (K. [See also قَفِزَ, and قُفَّزَ, and أَقْفَزُ.])
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