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شَظَفٌ ذ and ↓ شَظَافٌ Straitness; and hardness, or difficulty, or distress; (AZ, S, O, K;) like ضَفَفٌ: (AZ, S, O:) ISd thinks that the second is a dial. var. of the first; and IB mentions that, in a verse of El-Kumeyt, as related by some, it is with kesr, i.e. شِظَاف [which see in what here follows]: (TA:) and (K) as some say, (TA,) dryness, and hardness, of the means of subsistence: (K:) or شَظَفٌ signifies hardness, and straitness, of the means of subsistence: (Msb:) or hardness, and coarseness, or roughness, thereof; from شَظِفَتْ يَدُهُ [expl. above]: (Har p. 70:) pl. شِظَافٌ. (K.) ― -b2- Also A disintegration of the flesh, separating it from the border around the nail. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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