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زَفَرٌ ذ A prop of a tree. (K, TA.) -A2- [In modern Arabic, it means Grease, greasy food, or flesh-meat: app. from the Pers. زَفَرْ or زَفْر, signifying “ filth: ” and hence, obscenity. Hence also the vulgar epithet زِفِر (app. for زَفِرٌ), meaning Greasy: and foul, or filthy: and obscene. See 5.]
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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