دَفِينٌ
1.
i. q.
مَدْفُونٌ, (S, M, Msb, K,) Buried, or interred; i. e. hidden, concealed, or covered, (M, Msb, K, TA,) in the earth, or dust, (TA,) or beneath layers, or strata, of earth, or dust; (Msb;) as also
دِفْنٌ (M, K) and
دَفْنٌ: (TA:) plural [of the first] دُفَنَاءُ (M, K) and of the same also دُفُنٌ; (TA;) and [of the second] أَدْفَانٌ, (M, K,) which is also plural of the third: (TA:) دَفِينٌ is also applied to a woman, and so is دَفِينَةٌ; (Lh, M, K;) and the plural is دَفْنَى, (Lh, M,) or دُفَنَاءُ, (K,) and دَفَايءِنُ: (Lh, M, K:) and the plural دُفُنٌ is also used as a singular, applied to land (أَرْضٌ). (TA. [But in the M it is said that
دَفْنٌ is thus applied as an epithet to land (ارض), and that its plural is دُفُنٌ.])
2.
See also دَفِينَةٌ.
3.
Also, applied to a well (رَكِيَّةٌ), Partly filled up with earth or dust (اِنْدَفَنَ بَعْضُهَا); as also
دِفَانٌ; plural دُفُنٌ: (S:) or i. q.
مُنْدَفِنَةٌ, (M, K,) i. e. [filled up with earth or dust; or] having the dust swept into it by the wind [so that it is filled up, stopped up, or choked up]; (T, TA;) as also
مِدْفَانٌ (M, K) and
دِفَانٌ: (K:) and so
دَفْنٌ, (M, TA,) or
دِفْنٌ, (K,) thus applied, (K, TA,) and applied likewise to a watering-place, or spring to which camels have come to water, (M, K, TA,) and to a watering-trough or tank; (M, K;) as also دَفِينٌ. (TA.)
4.
Also Flesh-meat buried in rice: but this is a vulgar application. (TA.)
5.
دَاءٌ دَفِينٌ (T, S, M, K) and
دَفِنٌ, (IAar, M, TA,) which is anomalous, apparently a possessive epithet, like نَهْرٌ as applied to a man, (M,) in the K, erroneously,
دِفْنٌ, (TA,) (tropical:) A latent disease, which the constitution has overpowered [so as to prevent its becoming apparent]; it is said in a tradition that the sun causes it to appear: (IAth, TA:) or a disease that is unknown (T, S) until evil and mischief appear from it: (T:) or a disease that appears after being latent, and from which evil and mischief (شَرٌّ وَ عَرَّ [in the CK, erroneously, وَعُرٌّ]) then appear and spread: (M, K:) [it is said that] it is seldom, or never, cured. (M.)