لَافِظٌ

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لَافِظٌ [act. part. n. of 1: fem. with ة]. You say, فُلاَنٌ لَافِظٌ Such a one is dying.
2 اللَّافِظَةٌ The she-goat, or ewe; because she is called to be milked, while ruminating, and thereupon ejects her cud, and comes joyfully to be milked: or the bird that feeds her young one from her beak; because she puts forth what is in her inside and gives it for food: or the domestic cock; because he takes the grain with his beak, and does not eat it, but throws it to the hen: or the mill; because it casts forth what it grinds, of the flour: or the sea; as also لَافِظَةُ, determinate [as a proper name]; because it casts forth what is in it, [namely] ambergris and jewels: in this last sense, and as applied to the cock, the ة is to give intensiveness to the signification. It has one or another of these significations in the saying, اسْمَحُ مِنْ لَافِظَةٍ [More liberal, or bountiful, than a she-goat, &c.,] and أَسْخَى مِنْ لَافِظَةٍ and أَجْوَدُ مِنْ لَافِظَةٍ [which mean the same]. لَافِظَةٌ also signifies Any bird that feeds his female, or that feeds his young bird, from his beak. And اللَّافِظَةُ The earth; because it casts forth the dead. And The present world; because it casts forth those who are in it to the world to come.

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