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دَغْفَلٌ دغفل The young one of an elephant: (S, K:) or of a wolf. (K.) -A2- عَيْشٌ دَغْفَلٌ An ample, or easy, and a plentiful, life; (As, S, K;) [as also ↓ دَغْفَلِىٌّ .] A poet says, “ ↓ وَفَارَقَ مِنْهَاعِيشَةٌ دَغْفَلِيَّةٌ
وَلَمْ تَخْشَ يَوْمًا يَزُولَ سَرِيرُهاَ
” [And an ample, or a plentiful, state of life, that was hers, passed away: and she feared not one day that her ease, or affluence, would depart]. (S in art. سر.) ― -b2- You say also عَامٌ دَغْفَلٌ A plentiful, or fruitful, year: so says IAar: and he cites the saying of El-' Ajjáj, “ ↓ وَإِِذْ زَمَانُ النَّاسِ دَغْفَلِىٌّ
” [And when the time of men, or of the people, is, or was, plentiful, or fruitful]. (S.) ― -b3- And رِيشٌ دَغْفَلٌ Abundant feathers or plumage. (K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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