حَرْف

HarofN Hrf Hrfp The extremity, verge, border, margin, brink, brow, side, or edge, (S, Mgh, * K, TA,) of anything; (S, K;) as, for instance, the side of a river or rivulet, and of a ship or boat, (TA,) and of the notch of an arrow; (Msb;) and the edge of a sword: (L, TA:) pl. [of mult. HuruwfN , and of pauc.] A^aHorufN . (TA.) Hence, (S,) [ A point, a ridge, a brow, and a ledge, of a mountain:] the pointed, sharp, or edged, summit of a mountain: (S, Msb, K:) a projecting portion in the side of a mountain, in form like a small duk~aAn [i. e. bench ] or the like: and a portion in the summit of a mountain, having a thin edge, or ridge, rising above the upper part of the back: (Sh, TA:) pl. (of the word thus used in relation to a mountain, TA) HirafN ; (Fr, S, Msb, K;) accord. to Fr, (Msb,) the only instance of the kind except TilalN as pl. of Tal~N . (Msb, K.) [Hence, also,] A nib, of a writing-reed, obliquely cut: so in the phrase qalamN laA Harofa lahu , in the S and K in art. jzm , a writingreed not having a nib obliquely cut. (TA in that art. [See 2 in the present art.]) And HarofaA Alr~aA^osi The two lateral halves of the head. (TA.) [Hence, also, the phrase] fulaAnN EalaY HarofK mino A^amorihi [and biHarofK minohu (see 3, first sentence,)] Such a one is [ standing ] aloof with respect to his affair, ( EalaY naAHiyapK minohu , ISd, TA,) [ in suspense, ] waiting, and looking to the result, if he see, in regarding it from one side, what he likes; (TA;) turning from it if he see what does not please him. (ISd, TA.) The saying, in the Kur xxii. 11, wamina A@ln~aAsi mano yaEobudu A@ll~`ha EalaY HarofK means And of men is he who serves God standing aloof with respect to religion, in a fluctuating state, like him who is in the outskirts of the army, who, if sure of victory and spoil, stands firm, and otherwise flees: (Ksh, Bd: *) or the meaning is, who serves God in doubt, or suspense, (Zj, K, Jel,) being unsteady like him who alights and abides upon the Harof [i. e. point, or ridge, or brow, ] of a mountain: (Jel:) or in a state of disquietude respecting his case; (Ibn- 'Arafeh, K;) i. e. not entering into the religion firmly, or steadily: (K:) or who serves God in one mode of circumstances; i. e. when in ample circumstances, and not when straitened in circumstances; (Az, S, K;) as though good fortune and plenty were one side, and an evil state were another side: (Az, TA:) [hence,] HarofN sometimes signifies a mode, or manner, and a way. (Msb.) ― -b2- A letter of the alphabet: pl. HuruwfN : (S, Msb, K:) the letters being thus called because they are the extremities of the word [and of the syllable]. (Kull.) The saying of the lawyers, tuboTalu AlS~alaApa biHarofK mufohimK [ Prayer is made null by a significant letter ] means only by an imperative of a verb of which the first and last radical letters are infirm; such as fi from wafaY , and qi from waqaY , and the like. (Msb.) ― -b3- As a grammatical term, (assumed tropical:) [ A particle; i. e.] what is used to express a meaning, and is not a noun nor a verb: every other definition of it is bad: (K:) pl. HuruwfN . (Msb, &c.) ― -b4- And (tropical:) A word [absolutely: often used in this sense in lexicons &c.]. (Kull.) ― -b5- A dialect, an idiom, or a mode of expression, peculiar to certain of the Arabs: pl. [of pauc.] A^aHorufN : so in the saying (of Mohammad, TA) nazala AlquroA=nu EalaY saboEapi A^aHorufK The Kur-án has been revealed according to seven dialects, of the dialects of the Arabs: (A'Obeyd, Az, IAth, K:) or this means, according to seven modes, or manners, (Mgh, Msb,) of reading: whence fulaAnN yaqoraA^u biHarofi A@boni masoEuwdK Such a one reads in the manner of reading of Ibn-Mes'ood. (Mgh.) -A2- Applied to a she-camel, (assumed tropical:) Lean, or light of flesh; or lean, and lank in the belly; (S, K;) and firm, strong, or hardy; likened to the Harof of a mountain; (S;) or to the Hrf of a sword, (Z, O, TA,) in respect of her leanness, or thinness, and her sharpness and

HurofN Hrf Hrfp and ↓ HirofapN (S, K) and ↓ HurofapN (Mgh, K) and ↓ HiraAfN (TA) Ill-fatedness; privation of prosperity; or the being denied prosperity; syn. HiromaAnN [as inf. n. of Hurima ]: (K, TA:) lack of good fortune, so that one has no increase of his cattle or other property: (S:) debarment from the means of subsistence. (Mgh.) Hence the saying of 'Omar, A^aHadihimo A^a$ad~u EalaY~a mino Eayolatihi ↓ liHirofapu , (S, K,) or, accord. to one reading, ↓ laHurofapu , (TA,) [ Verily the ill-fatedness of any one of them is more distressing to me than his poverty: ] i. e., the supplying the wants of the poor man is easier to me than the making the bad to thrive: or the meaning is, the want of the means of gaining subsistence by any one of them, and grief on that account, is more distressing to me than his poverty: so in the Nh. (TA.) -A2- AlHurofu A certain grain, resembling Alxarodal [or mustard ]; (Az, Msb, TA;) called by the vulgar, (AHn, TA,) or in the dial. of El- 'Irák, (TA in art. r$d ,) Hab~u Alr~a$aAdi , (AHn, S, K,) or Alr~a$aAdu : (Msb:) n. un. with p , (TA,) applied to a single grain thereof. (Msb.) [See art. r$d .] Hence Hir~iyfN [q. v.]. (S, Msb.)