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غَفَرٌ ذ (S, K, TA) and ↓ غَفْرٌ (S, TA) and ↓ غُفَارٌ (S, K, TA) Hair like down, such as is upon the shank of a woman, and upon the forehead, and the like thereof: (S, TA:) or the hair of the neck, and of the jaws, and of the back of the neck; (K, TA;) as also ↓ غَفِيرٌ accord. to the copies of the K, but accord. to the L and other lexicons غَفْرٌ: and the small, short, hairs of the body. (TA.) ― -b2- And غَفَرٌ signifies also The growth of hair in the place of the mane of a horse or similar beast. (TA.) ― -b3- And The nap, or villous substance, upon the surface of a garment, or piece of cloth, (S, K, TA,) and the like thereof; (TA;) and ↓ غَفْرٌ signifies the same: (K, TA:) n. un. غَفْرَةٌ [and app. غَفَرَةٌ]: and غَفَرٌ is also expl. as signifying the هُدْب [app. here meaning likewise nap, or pile, or perhaps the unwoven end,] of a garment, or piece of cloth, and [particularly] of the thin and soft sorts of what are termed خَمَائِص and قُطُف [pls. of خَمِيصَةٌ and قَطِيفَةٌ]; but not the extremities of أَرْدِيَة and مَلَاحِف [pls. of رِدَآءٌ and مِلْحَفَةٌ]. (TA.) ― -b4- And Small herbage; (K:) [or] a sort of small, sprouting herbage, of the [season called] رَبِيع, growing in plain, or soft, land, and upon the [eminences termed] آكام [pl. of أَكَمَةٌ]; when green, resembling green passerine birds standing; and when it has dried up, resembling such as are red, not standing. (L, TA. *)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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