Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ذ

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ذَفِرٌ ذ (S, M, A, Msb, K) and ↓ أَذْفَرُ (M, K) Having, or emitting, a pungent, or strong, odour, or smell; (S, * Msb;) or having, or emitting, a very pungent, or very strong, odour, or smell; (M, K;) whether sweet or stinking: (S, M, Msb:) or especially, (Lh, M, K,) or also, (S, M, A,) a man having stinking arm-pits, (S, M, A, K,) and a foul smell: (S, M, A:) fem. of the former, ذَفِرَةٌ; and of the latter, ↓ ذَفْرَآءُ : (M:) or ذَفِرَةٌ signifies a woman having a strong smell; whether sweet, like that of musk, or foul, like that of the arm-pits. (Msb.) You say ↓ مِسْكٌ أَذْثَرُ , (S, A, M, K,) and ذَفِرٌ, (M, K,) Pungent, or strongscented, musk: (S, A:) or musk of the utmost excellence. (K.) And ↓ فَأْرَةٌ ذَفْرَآءُ [A pungent, or strong-scented, or] sweet-smelling [follicle, or vesicle, of musk]: Er-Rá'ee says, speaking of camels that had pastured upon herbage and its flowers, and gone to water, and come back from it with their skins moist and diffusing a sweet smell, “ كُلَّ عَشَيَّةٍ ↓ لَهَا فَأْرَةٌ ذَفْرَآءُ
كَمَا فَتَقَ الكَافُورَ بِا@لْمِسْكِ فَاتِقُةٌ
” [They have an odour like that of a strong-scented vesicle of musk, every evening; as when one has imparted additional fragrance to camphire by mixing with it musk]. (T, M, TA.) One says also رَوْضَةٌ ذَفِرَةٌ (S, A) A sweet-smelling meadow. (TA.) And ↓ إِِبْطٌ ذَفْرَآءُ A stinking arm-pit. (A.) And ↓ كَتِيبَةٌ ذَفْرَآءُ , (S, K,) or ذَفْرَآءُ الرَّائِحَةِ, (A,) An army, or a collected portion thereof, or a troop of horse, having a foul smell from the rust of the arms or armour. (S, A, K.) ― -b2- ذَفِرَةٌ A certain plant, (K,) Which grows in the midst of herbage, little in quantity, of no account, growing in hard and level ground, upon a single root, having a yellow fruit, resembling the جَعْدَة in [the sweetness of] its odour. (TA.) ― -b3- And ↓ ذَفْرَآءٌ A certain herb, or leguminous plant, (K,) which remains green until the cold smites it: [a coll. gen. n.; and with tenween; for] the n. un. is ذَفْرَآءَةٌ: (TA:) [but it is from ذَفْرَآءٌ, fem. of أَذْفَرُ:] a certain herb, of foul odour, which camels &c. scarcely ever eat: (Yaakoob, S:) or a certain tree, also called عِطْرُ لأَمَةِ: or, accord. to AHn, a species of [the trees called] حَمْض: or, as he says in another place, a certain green herb, which rises a span high, with round leaves, and with branches, having no flower; the odour of which is like that of a slight wind from the anus: it makes the breath of camels to stink; and they desire it eagerly: it is bitter; and grows in rugged places: and Abu-n-Nejm describes it as in meadows. (TA.) [Ruta sylvestris. (Golius, from Er-Rázee.)]