[1]
حَفَرَ , (S, A, K, &c.,) aor.
حَفِرَ , (Msb, K,) inf. n.
حَفْرٌ, (Mgh, Msb,) He dug, excavated, or hollowed out, the ground, or earth; (KL, PS, &c.;)
he cleared out a thing, (K,) as one does the
ground; (S, Msb, K;) and a well; (the Lexicons
passim;) and a river; (A, Mgh;) with a مِحْفَار;
(A;) or with an iron implement; (K;) and
↓ احتفر signifies the same. (S, A, K.) And حَفَرَ
عَلَيْهِ, and حَفَرَهُ, and ↓ احتفرهُ, He dug for him,
(namely, a lizard of the kind called ضَبّ, or a
jerboa,) to fetch him forth. (A, TA.) ―
2-b2- [He
burrowed.] ―
2-b3- (assumed tropical:) It (a torrent) furrowed a valley.
(Msb.) [See also 5.] ―
2-b4- (tropical:) Inivit feminam: (IAar,
Msb, K:) the action being likened to that of
a man digging a river. (IAar.) ―
2-b5- .) ―
2-b6- هٰذَا غَيْثٌ لَا
يَحْفِرُهُ أَحَدٌ (tropical:) This is a rain of which no one knows
the utmost extent. (K, * TA.) ―
2-b7- حَفَرَ ثَرَي زَيْدٍ
(tropical:) He searched into the affair, or case, of Zeyd,
(A, K,) and became acquainted with it. (K.) ―
2-b8-
And حَفَرَ, (S, A, K,) aor. as above, (S,) and so
the inf. n., (S, A,) (assumed tropical:) He, or it, emaciated, or rendered lean: (S, K:) it (a copious flow of milk,
TA) emaciated a she-goat: (K, TA:) (tropical:) he (a
young camel) rendered his mother flabby in flesh
by much sucking. (A.) There is no pregnant
animal that pregnancy does not emaciate, except
the camel: (S, A:) she fattens in pregnancy.
(S.) ＝
1-A2- حَفَرَ He (a child) shed his رَوَاضِع [or
milk-teeth]. (K, TA.) [See also 4.] ―
2-b2- حَفَرَتْ
رَوَاضِعُ المُهْرِ, or حُفِرَتْ, (accord. to different copies
of the A,) (tropical:) The milk-teeth of the colt became in
a wabbling, or loose, state, previously to their
falling out; because, when they have fallen out,
their sockets become hollow. (A.) [See 4.]
―
2-b3- حَفَرَتِ الأَسْنَانُ, aor.
حَفِرَ , (S, Mgh, Msb, K,)
inf. n. حَفْرٌ; (S, Msb;) and حَفِرَت, aor.
حَفَرَ , (S,
Mgh, Msb, K,) inf. n. حَفَرٌ, in the dial. of BenooAsad, (S, Msb,) and this is the worse of these two
forms, (S,) and حَفْرٌ; (El-Wá'ee;) and حُفِرَت;
(K;) (tropical:) The teeth became affected with what is
termed حَفْرٌ [q. v. infrà] or حَفَرٌ: (S, Msb, K:)
or became unsound: (Mgh:) and حَفَرَ فُوهُ and
حَفِرَ his teeth cankered. (A.) IDrst says, in the
Expos. of the Fs, that حَفَرَ, aor.
حَفِرَ , inf. n. حَفْرَ فُوهُ,
is trans.; and that the cause of حَفْر of the teeth,
[or the agent of the verb حَفَرَ,] is old age, or the
continuance of a yellow incrustation, [or tartar,]
or some kind of canker that effects them: but
that the verb in the phrase حَفِرَتْ سِنُّهُ, aor.
حَفَرَ ,
inf. n. حَفَرٌ, is intrans. (MF.) [The truth probably is, that the former verb is both trans. and intrans., and hence حُفِرَتِ الأَسْنَانُ; and that the
latter is intrans. only.] ―
2-b4- And حَفِرَ, aor.
حَفَرَ , (assumed tropical:) It
was, or became, in a bad, corrupt, or unsound,
state. (Az.)