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1 جَفَرَ جفر جفرة He, or it, became wide: (K:) or became inflated, or swollen. (A.) And جَفَرَ جَنْبَاهُ His (a kid's, S and Msb, or lamb's, Msb) sides became widened, or distended: (S, Msb:) and جَنْبَاهُ ↓ اجفر [and ↓ انجفر (K in art. هضم）] his (a horse's) sides became inflated, or swollen. (A.) ― -b2- He (a lamb, K, and a kid, TA) became what is termed جَفْرٌ; as also ↓ تجفّر and ↓ استجفر : (K:) and ↓ تجفّرت and ↓ استجفرت she (a kid) became a جَفْرَة. (ISh, TA.) And He (a boy) became what is termed جَفْرٌ; as also ↓ تجفّر (TA) and ↓ استجفر : (A:) and this last verb, he became large in the sides. (L.) -A2- جَفَرَ (S, A) عَنِ الضِّرَابِ, (S,) or عَنِ الإِِبِلِ, (A,) aor. جَفُرَ , (S,) inf. n. جُفُورٌ; (S, K;) and ↓ اجتفر ; and ↓ اجفر , inf. n. إِِجْفَارٌ; and ↓ جفّر , inf. n. تَجْفِيرٌ; (K;) He (a stallioncamel) ceased, (S, K,) or abstained, (A,) from covering, (S, A, K,) and avoided it; having indulged in it so much that he was wearied; (S;) and his seminal fluid became little: (TA:) you say of a ram, رَبَضَ, (S, A,) not جَفَرَ. (S.) And جَفَرَ عَنِ المَرْأَةِ, (IAar, TA,) and عَنْهَا ↓ اجفر , (IAar, K,) and ↓ اجتفر , and ↓ جفّر , (IAar, TA,) He (a man) abstained from the woman; (K;) he abstained from sexual intercourse with her. (IAar, TA.) ― -b2- جَفَرَ مِنَ المَرَضِ He recovered from the disease. (K, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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