عَفَرَهُ
1.
, aorist
عَفِرَ
, (S, O, Msb, K,) verbal noun عَفْرٌ, (S, O, Msb,) He rubbed it (namely a vessel) with dust: and
عفّرهُ
he rubbed it much with dust: (Msb:) or the latter, he defiled, or soiled, it with dust: (Mgh:) and the former, and ↓ latter, (S, O, K,) of which the verbal noun is تَعْفِيرٌ, (S, O,) he rolled, or turned over, him, or it,
فِى التُّرَابِ
in the dust: (S, O, K:) or he hid (دَسَّ) him, or it, therein. (K.) It is is said in a tradition of Aboo-Jahl, مُحَمَّدٌ وَجْهَهُ بَيْنَ أَظْهُرِكُمْ
هَلْ يُعَفِّرُ [Doth, or shall, Mohammad defile his face with dust, or rub his face in the dust, in the midst of you?], meaning his prostrating himself in the dust: and at the end he says,
لَأَطَأَنَّ عَلَى رَقَبَتِهِ أَوْ لَأُعَفِّرَنَّ
وَجْهَهُ فِى التُّرَابِ [I will assuredly trample upon his neck, or I will defile, or roll, his face in the dust]; meaning that he would abase him, or render him abject. (TA.)
2.
He dragged him, being about to roll him in the dust: and you say ثَوْبَهُ فِى االتُّرَابِ
اِعْتَفَرَ [He dragged his garment in the dust]. (Aboo-Nasr, L, TA.)
3.
And عَفَرَهُ, (K,) verbal noun عَفْرٌ, (TA,) He cast him upon the ground; as also
اعتفرهُ. (K.) You say,
اعتفرهُ
الأَسَدُ
The lion cast him upon the ground: (A:) or the lion seized him, and broke his neck, (S, O, TA,) and cast him upon the ground, and shook him about. (TA.) And
اعتفرهُ
He leaped, or sprang, upon him, or at him, (سَاوَرَهُ, O, K, for which شَاوره is erroneously put in some copies of the K, TA,) and dragged him, and cast him upon the ground. (TA.) [See also 2.]