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دَفِئٌ ذ Warmly clad; (S, K;) applied to a man; (S, TA;) fem. with ة: (TA:) and so ↓ دَفْآنُ ; fem. دَفْأَى; (T, S, M, Msb, K;) and pl., of the masc. and fem., دِفَآءٌ: (M, TA:) and so ↓ دَفِىْءٌ , accord. to IAar, who cites, as an ex., the following verse: “ يَبِيتُ أَبُو لَيْلَى دَفِيْئًا وَضَيْفُهُ
مِنَ القُرِّ يُضْحِى مُسْتَحِقًّا خَصَائِلَهْ
” [Aboo-Leylà passes the night warmly clad, while his guest, by reason of the cold, becomes deserving of his properties]: (M, TA:) though it has been asserted that ↓ دَفْآنُ and its fem. are applied peculiarly to human beings; and ↓ دَفِىْءٌ , peculiarly to time and place; and دَفِئْءٌ, to a human being and to time and place: (TA:) [for] this last signifies [also] warm, or hot: (M:) [and so does each of the two other epithets:] you say بَيْتٌ دَفِئٌ(Msb) or ↓ دَفِىْءٌ , of the measure فَعِيلٌ, (T, S, O, TA, [though this is said in the Msb to be not allowable,]) [a warm, or hot, tent or house or chamber,] and in like manner ↓ ثَوْبٌ دَفِىْءٌ [a warm garment], (S, M, O, TA,) and ↓ يَوْمٌ دَفِىْءٌ (T, S, O, TA) and ↓ دَفْآنٌ (TA from Expositions of the Fs) [a warm, or hot, day], and ↓ لَيْلَةٌ َدفِيْئَةٌ (T, S, O, TA) and ↓ دَفْأَى (TA from the Expositions of the Fs) [a warm, or hot, night], and أَرْضٌ دَفِئَةٌ and ↓ دَفِيْئَةٌ (K) and ↓ مَدْفَأَةٌ (M, K) a warm, or hot, land; pl. of the last مَدَافِئُ. (M, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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