مُطْفِئُ
Root: طفأ
Full Definition
مُطْفِئُ
[The extinguisher of the live coals;] one of the [seven] days called
أَيَّامُ العَجُوزِ; the fifth of those days; so in the M &c.: or the fourth thereof: or the last thereof. [Accord. to modern Egyptian almanacs, it is the fourth of those days on which the last of the three جَمَرَات becomes extinct: see جَمْرَةٌ: and see also عَجُوزٌ]
2 مُطْفِئَةُ الرَّضْفِ (so in the M and O and L and in some copies of the K, in other copies of the K مُطْفِئُ, TA) A piece of fat which, when it falls upon the رَضْف [or heated stones], melts, and quenches them. And in the M and L, it is said to signify A lean sheep or goat: the Arabs, as is related by Lh, used to say, حَدَسَ لَهُمْ بِمُطْفِئَةِ الرَّضْفِ i. e. He slaughtered for them a lean sheep or goat, which extinguished the fire and did not become thoroughly cooked: (M and L and K in art. حدس:) or a fat sheep or goat, which quenched the رَضْف by its fat. (T, TA ibid. [See also دَمَغَ.])
3 Also A serpent, the poison of which, as it passes by the رَضْف, extinguishes their fire: in a verse of El-Kumeyt, [for the sake of the metre,] the former word is [altered to] .
4 And
2 مُطْفِئَةُ الرَّضْفِ (so in the M and O and L and in some copies of the K, in other copies of the K مُطْفِئُ, TA) A piece of fat which, when it falls upon the رَضْف [or heated stones], melts, and quenches them. And in the M and L, it is said to signify A lean sheep or goat: the Arabs, as is related by Lh, used to say, حَدَسَ لَهُمْ بِمُطْفِئَةِ الرَّضْفِ i. e. He slaughtered for them a lean sheep or goat, which extinguished the fire and did not become thoroughly cooked: (M and L and K in art. حدس:) or a fat sheep or goat, which quenched the رَضْف by its fat. (T, TA ibid. [See also دَمَغَ.])
3 Also A serpent, the poison of which, as it passes by the رَضْف, extinguishes their fire: in a verse of El-Kumeyt, [for the sake of the metre,] the former word is [altered to] .
4 And
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