Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ل

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لَافِظٌ ذ [act. part. n. of 1: fem. with ة]. You say, فُلاَنٌ لَافِظٌ (tropical:) Such a one is dying. (TA.) ― -b2- اللَّافِظَةٌ The she-goat, (T, S, M, K,) or ewe; (M, K;) because she is called to be milked, while ruminating, and thereupon ejects her cud, and comes joyfully to be milked: (T, * S, M, * K: *) or the bird that feeds her young one from her beak; because she puts forth what is in her inside and gives it for food: (S, K *:) or the domestic cock; (S, K;) because he takes the grain with his beak, and does not eat it, but throws it to the hen: (K:) or (tropical:) the mill; (T, S, M, K;) because it casts forth what it grinds, (T, TA,) of the flour: (TA:) or (tropical:) the sea; (S, M, K;) as also لَافِظَةُ, determinate [as a proper name]; (K;) because it casts forth (S, M) what is in it, (M,) [namely] ambergris and jewels: (S:) in this last sense, and as applied to the cock, (Sgh,) the ة is to give intensiveness to the signification. (S, Sgh.) It has one or another of these significations in the saying, اسْمَحُ مِنْ لَافِظَةٍ [More liberal, or bountiful, than a she-goat, &c.,] (T, S, K,) and أَسْخَى مِنْ لَافِظَةٍ (M, TA) and أَجْوَدُ مِنْ لَافِظَةٍ [which mean the same]. (TA.) لَافِظَةٌ also signifies Any bird that feeds his female, (T,) or that feeds his young bird, (M, K,) from his beak. (T, M, K.) And اللَّافِظَةُ (tropical:) The earth; because it casts forth the dead. (TA.) And (tropical:) The present world; because it casts forth those who are in it to the world to come. (T, K, TA.)