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جَفْرٌ جفر جفرة A lamb, or kid, whose sides have become widened, or distended: (Msb:) or a lamb, (IAmb, Msb, K,) and a kid, (K, * TA,) that has become large, and begun to pasture, (K, TA,) and whose sides have become widened, or distended: (TA:) or a lamb, (K,) or a kid, (S, Mgh, Msb, K, * TA,) that is four months old, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) and whose sides have become widened, and that is weaned, (A'Obeyd, S,) and has taken to pasture: (A'Obeyd, TA:) or this is sometimes four months, and sometimes five months, after the birth: or a young lamb, and a kid, after it has been weaned, when six months old: (IAar, TA:) pl. [of pauc.] أَجْفَارٌ (K) and [of mult.] جِفَارٌ (Msb, K) and جَفَرَةٌ: (K) fem. with ة: (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K:) or جَفْرَةٌ signifies a female kid that has become satiated with leguminous herbs and with shrubs, and is independent of its mother: (ISh, TA:) IAmb applies it to a female lamb and a female kid; and this is correct, though some say that it is applied to the latter only. (TA.) ― -b2- A boy when his belly has become widened, (A,) or when his flesh has become swollen out, (K,) and he has begun to eat: (A, K:) fem. with ة (K.) [See شَادِخٌ; and see also مُطَبِّخٌ.] -A2- A well, (Msb, K,) or a wide well, (S, A,) not cased, or walled round, within; (S, A, Msb, K;) as also ↓ جَفْرَةٌ : (R, TA:) or, of which a portion is cased, or walled round, within, (K, TA,) and a portion is not: (TA:) the former of the masc. gender: pl. جِفَارٌ. (Msb.) ― -b2- [Hence,] فُلَانٌ مُنْهَدِمُ الجَفْرِ (A, K *) [Such a one's well is in a state of demolition; meaning,] such a one has no judgment: (A:) or has no intelligence. (K.) And إِِنَّ جَفْرَكَ عَلَىَّ لَهَارٍ [Verily thy well is falling in upon me; meaning] thy mischief is coming quickly upon me. (A, TA.) ― -b3- [The pl.] جَفَارٌ also signifies [simply] Wells. (K.) ― -b4- And hence, (TA,) She-camels abounding with milk. (K, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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