Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

ذَلِفَ, aor. ـَ {يَذْلَفُ}, inf. n. ذَلَفٌ, said of a nose, It was short and small: (M, Mṣb:) 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: (Ṣ,* Ḳ:) or small and slender: or thick and even in the lower extremity; (M, Ḳ;) or, as some say, it had in it what resembled a pit, or depression; (M;) not being very thick (لَيْسَ بِجِدِّ غَلِيظٍ): (M, Ḳ:* [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. (Ṣ, Ḳ.)

أَذْلَفُ A man having a nose such as is described above: (Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ:) or having a short and slender nose: (Mgh:) fem. ذَلْفَآءُ: (Ṣ, Mgh, Mṣb, Ḳ:) pl. ذُلْفٌ. (Ṣ, Ḳ.) And A nose such as is described above. (Ḳ.)

And ذُلْفٌ, applied to sands, † Even and compact; as also دُكٌّ. (AḤn, M.)