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أَعْجَفُ ذ Lean, meagre, or emaciated; (S;) having lost his fatness or plumpness: (O, K:) or weak: (Msb:) and ↓ عَجِفٌ signifies the same, applied to a man and to a woman: and ↓ عَجِيفٌ also signifies lean, meagre, or emaciated: (TA:) and ↓ مَعْجُوفٌ [likewise] is syn. with أَعْجَفُ, applied to a camel; (O, K;) as also ↓ مُنْعَجِفٌ , (K, TA,) in some copies of the K erroneously written مُتَعَجِّفٌ: (TA:) the fem. of أَعْجَفُ is عَجْفَآءُ: and the pl. is عِجَافٌ, which is irreg., having this form to assimilate it to سِمَانٌ, (S, O, Msb, K,) or to its like ضِعَافٌ, (Msb,) and which is applied to males and to females: (O, TA:) the pl. of ↓ عَجِفٌ , also, is عِجَافٌ: (TA:) and the pl. of ↓ عَجِيفٌ , if this be of established authority, may be عَجْفَى, agreeably with analogy. (MF, TA.) [Hence,] وَجْهٌ أَعْجَفُ and ↓ عَجِفٌ A face having little flesh. (TA.) And لِثَةٌ عَجْفَآءُ A gum having little flesh. (TA.) And شَفَتَانِ عَجْفَاوَانِ Two thin lips. (Ks, O, K.) ― -b2- And نَصْلٌ أَعْجَفُ A thin, or slender, arrow-head: (S, O, K:) pl. نِصَالٌ عِجَافٌ. (O, K.) ― -b3- And أَرْضٌ عَجْفَآءُ Land in which is no good. (O, K.) And أَرَضُونَ عِجَاف Lands not rained upon. (O.) And عِجَافٌ is sometimes used [alone] as signifying Lands affected by drought: a poet says, describing clouds (سَحَاب), “ لَقِحَ العِجَافُ لَهُ لِسَابِعِ سَبْعَةٍ
” meaning The lands affected by drought produced herbage by reason thereof at a period of seven days after the rain. (L, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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