Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

قَفَزَ

Root: قفز

Form: 1

Full Definition

قَفَزَI , Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun قَفْزٌ and قَفَزَانٌ and قُفُوزٌ and قِفَازٌ, the last with kesr, or قُفَازٌ, with damm, or قَفَازٌ, He leaped, jumped, sprang, or bounded: he did so and alighted with his legs together. (TA, art. نفز.)
2 قَفَزَ الحَائِطَ [He leaped the wall]. (O and K in art. زيف.)

def.2 See also 5.

def.3 قَفِزَ, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun قَفَزَ, He had fore legs white as high as his مِرْفَقَانِ [properly signifying the elbows; but here, probably meaning, as it seems to do in some other instances, the knees], but not the kind legs. (IKtt, TA. [And app. has a similar meaning: see its Verbal.Noun تقفيز below; and its part. n. مُقَفَّزٌ, voce أَقْفَزُ.]) But see أَقْفَزُ, and قُفَّازٌ.


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