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8 احتفّوا احتفوا ٱحتف ٱحتفى ٱحتفوا : see 1, first sentence. ― -b2- احتفّ بِهِ He, or it, became encompassed, or surrounded, by it: and hence, became in the midst of it. (Har p. 445.) -A2- اِحْتَفَّتْ, said of a woman: see 1, in two places. ― -b2- احتفّ النَّبْتَ He cut the herbage; syn. جَزَّهُ: (so in some copies of the K, and in the TK:) or حَزَرَهُ [he computed by conjecture its quantity]: (so in other copies of the K, and in the TA:) mentioned by Sgh: in some copies of the K, حزّزه [he jagged it]: in one, جزره, which is a mistake. (TA.) ― -b3- اِحْتَفَّتِ الإِِبِلُ الكَلَأَ The camels ate the herbage: or obtained some of it. (TA.) ― -b4- And احتفّ He ate up entirely what was in the cooking pot: like as اشتفّ signifies “ he drank up entirely ” what was in the vessel. (S.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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