Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

مَجْدُوفٌ

Root: جدف

Full Definition

مَجْدُوفٌ A [skin of the kind called] زِقّ having the legs cut off: and so with ذ. And مَجْدُوفُ اليَدَيْنِ A man having the arms, or hands, cut off.
2 And [hence,] the latter, A niggardly man.
3 And مَجْدُوفُ الكُمَّيْنِ, and اليَدِ, and القَمِيصِ, and الإِزَارِ, Short in respect of the sleeves, and of the arm, and of the shirt, and of the waistwrapper.
4 See also مُجَدَّفٌ.


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