شَظَفٌ
1.
and
شَظَافٌ
Straitness; and hardness, or difficulty, or distress; (AZ, S, O, K;) like ضَفَفٌ: (AZ, S, O:) ISd thinks that the second is a dialect var. of the first; and IB mentions that, in a verse of El-Kumeyt, as related by some, it is with kesr, i.e. شِظَاف [which see in what here follows]: (TA:) and (K) as some say, (TA,) dryness, and hardness, of the means of subsistence: (K:) or شَظَفٌ signifies hardness, and straitness, of the means of subsistence: (Msb:) or hardness, and coarseness, or roughness, thereof; from شَظِفَتْ يَدُهُ [explained above]: (Har p. 70:) plural شِظَافٌ. (K.)
2.
Also A disintegration of the flesh, separating it from the border around the nail. (TA.)