Core sense — he slaughtered a she-camel and fed her flesh to people in bowlsgenerated
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He slaughtered a she-camel and gave her flesh to the people as food, in bowls.
Core sense — they prepared bowls of food; it (a vine) came to have a stockgenerated
They made bowls — probably meaning they prepared bowls of food.
According to Freytag's Lexicon, جفّن means “apposuit scutellam”; but he does not name his authority.
تجفّن has the same meaning.
Core sense — it (a grape-vine) came to have a stockgenerated
See form 2.
Core sense — the eyelid; the scabbard of a sword; a grape-vinegenerated
The eyelid, both the upper and the lower; masculine in gender.
Plurals: few, أَجْفَانٌ and أَجْفُنٌ; many, جُفُونٌ.
The upper surface, and the lower, of a cake of bread; both together are called جَفْنَا الرَّغِيفِ.
The scabbard, or sheath, of a sword.
Or the case in which the sword is put together with its غمد and suspensory belt or cord; but only the first meaning is commonly known.
It is said that جِفْنٌ means the same, but IDrd doubts this.
Plurals: few, أَجْفَانٌ; many, جُفُونٌ.
The أَصْل [apparently here meaning stock] of a grape-vine.
Er-Rāghib: or a grape-vine itself, in the dialect of El-Yemen, so called as being imagined to be the receptacle of the grapes.
Or a species of grape; or the skin of the grape, in which is the juice; or a climbing shoot of a grape-vine; or the shoots of the grape-vine: ism waḥda with ة.
Or, according to IAar, جَفْنَةٌ means the same as كرعة [apparently a mistranscription for كَرْمَةٌ, a single grape-vine].
Or, as ISd says, according to some, the leaves of the grape-vine.
Or it may originally mean tears, then rain, and then wine: for wine is also called مَآءُ السَّحَابِ, and جَفْنُ المَآءِ means the clouds.
A kind of tree of sweet smell.
A certain plant, of the kind called أَحْرَار, that grows in a spreading manner and contracts when it dries up, having grains like the حُلْبَة [or fenugreek].
Core sense — the eyelid; the scabbard of a swordgenerated
See جَفْنٌ.
Core sense — a large bowl for food; a generous man; a small wellgenerated
A [bowl of the kind called] قَصْعَة, or like a قصعة: the largest kind of قصعة.
Next to it is the قصعة [properly so called], which satisfies the hunger of ten men; then the صَحْفَة, which satisfies five; then the مِئْكَلَة, which satisfies two men, or three; then the صُحَيْفَة, which satisfies one man.
Er-Rāghib: it is applied specifically to a receptacle for kinds of food.
Plurals: many, جَفَانٌ and جِفَنٌ; few, جَفَنَاتٌ.
A phrase like هُرِيقَ رِفْدُهُ.
Er-Rāghib: a small well, as being likened to the جفنة used for food.
He is called جفنة because people are fed in the جفنة, and the adjective غرّآء is added because of the whiteness of the camel's hump in the جفنة.
Also the same as خَمْرَةٌ [meaning some wine, or a kind of wine: see also مَآءُ الجَفْنِ under جَفْنٌ].