Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ض

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ضَفَفٌ ذ The pushing, pressing, crowding, or thronging, together, of people, at, or upon, water [to drink thereof or to water their beasts]. (S, O, K. [See also 1, last explanation.]) And Numerousness of the persons composing a family, or household. (S, O, K:) or, accord. to Lh, visitors and friends that come time after time; and one's household, or family: or, as some say, i. q. حَشَمٌ [i. e. one's dependents, &c.]. (TA.) And The taking of food with other people: (S, O, K: *) thus in a trad. in which it is said of the Prophet, مَا شَبِعَ مِنْ خُبْزٍ وَلَحْمٍ إِِلَّا عَلَى ضَفَفٍ [He did not satiate himself with the eating of bread and flesh-meat except in a case of taking thereof with others], as expl. by a man of the desert in answer to a question put to him by Málik Ibn-Deenár: (S, O: but in the latter, لَمْ يَشْبَعْ:) or the case of the eaters' being too many for the food: (Th, O, K:) [or,] accord. to Kh, (S, O,) numerousness of the hands upon the food: (S, O, Msb:) [or,] accord. to As, the case of the property's being little, and the devourers thereof many. (S, O.) [See also حَفَفٌ.] Accord. to AZ, (S, O,) Straitness, and hardness, or hardship: (S, O, Msb:) accord. to Fr, (S, O,) want. (S, O, Msb, K.) [See two exs. voce حَفَفٌ.] Also Weakness. (Fr, O, K.) And Haste (Fr, S, O, Msb) in an affair: (Msb:) so in the saying, لَقِيتُهُ عَلَى ضَفَفٍ [I met him, or found him, in a state of haste]. (Fr, S, O.) And A quantity less than will fill the measure, and less than anything that is filled. (Sh, O, K.) And Food, or the eating, less than satiates. (TA.) -A2- See also ضَفٌّ.