adhlaf

small-nosed

أَذْلَف

Word

Noun · pattern أَفْعَل

Root

ذ ل ف

In the library

قال الطبري: لما ذكر قتال الحبيري: فولى الخواربخ عليهم شيبان بن عبد العزيز اليشكري ويلقب أبا الذلفاء، وقاتلهم مروان بعد ذلك بالكراديس، وأبطل الصف من يومئذ انتهى.

The Muqaddimah, page 25 →

Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 2 entries
  • ذَلِفَ Form I It was short and small
    , aor. , inf. n. ذَلَفٌ, said of a nose, It was short and small: (M, Msb:) or short in the bone, and small in the tip, or lower portion: or ذَلَفٌ is like خَنَسٌ [inf. n. of خَنِسَ, q. v.]: (M:) or the verb means it was small, and even in the tip, or lower portion: (S, * K:) or small and slender: or thick and even in the lower extremity; (M, K;) or, as some say, it had in it what resembled a pit, or depression; (M;) not being very thick (لَيْسَ بِجِدِّ غَلِيظٍ): (M, K: * [in the latter I find لَيْسَ بِحَدٍّ غَلِيظٍ, which I doubt not to be a mistranscription:]) or it was short in the tip, or lower portion, and even in the bone, without prominence. (M.) And said of a man, He had a nose such as is above described. (S, K.)
  • أَذْلَفُ having a nose such as is described above
    A man having a nose such as is described above: (S, Msb, K:) or having a short and slender nose: (Mgh:) fem. ذَلْفَآءُ: (S, Mgh, Msb, K:) pl. ذُلْفٌ. (S, K.) And A nose such as is described above. (K.) ― -b2- And ذُلْفٌ, applied to sands, (assumed tropical:) Even and compact; as also دُكٌّ. (AHn, M.)

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