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دَافِقٌ دافق [act. part. n. of دَفَقَهُ; Pouring forth or out, &c.]. دَافِقُ خَيْرٍ [May it be pouring forth good] is said in prognostication on the occasion of the pouring forth of the contents of such a thing as a mug. (Lth, TA.) ― -b2- مَآءٌ دَافِقٌ means مَدْفُوقٌ [i. e. Water poured forth or out, &c.]; (IKoot, S, Msb, K;) because دَفَقَ is trans. [only] accord. to the generality (K, TA) of the leading lexicologists; (TA;) like سِرٌّ كَاتِمْ meaning مَكْتُومٌ, (IKoot, S, Msb,) and عَارِفٌ meaning مَعْرُوفٌ, and عَاصِمٌ meaning مَعْصُومٌ, (IKoot, Msb,) after a manner obtaining among the people of El-Hijáz, who change the مَفْعُولٌ into فَاعِل when it is used as an epithet: (Fr, Msb, TA:) or it means ذُو دَفْقٍ [having a pouring forth or out, &c.]; (Mgh, Msb, TA;) accord. to Kh and Sb (TA) and Zj; (Msb, TA;) and in like manner they say that سِرٌّ كَاتِمٌ means ذُو كِتْمَانٍ: or, accord. to Lth, [i. e.] in the 'Eyn, it means water pouring forth, or out, at once: (TA:) it occurs in the Kur lxxxvi. 6; where دَافِق is said by Kh and Sb to signify مُنْدَفِق [i. e. pouring forth or out]: (Az, TA:) and it [there] means the sperma genitale. (JK.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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