ج • ح • ف • ل

(with an augmentative ن S) Thicklipped. (S, K.)

An army: (S:) or a numerous army. (K.) MF holds it to be formed, with an augmentative ل, from الجَحْفُ, meaning “ the taking, ” or “ carrying, ” a thing “ away. ” (TA.) -A2- A great man: (K:) or a man of great estimation or dignity. (S.) A generous, noble, or high-born, chief or lord. (K.) Great in the sides. (IAar, K.)

, (S, K,) inf. n. جَحْفَلَةٌ, (TA,) He prostrated him on the ground; threw him down: (S, K:) and sometimes they said, جَعْفَلَهُ. (S.) -A2- He reproved, chid, or reproached, him for his deed; or did so severely. (Sgh, K.)

The lip (S, K) of a solid-hoofed animal, (Sudot;,) [i. e.,] of a horse, a mule, and an ass: (K:) and metaphorically applied to that of a man, which is properly termed شَفَةٌ: (TA:) not, as some assert, peculiarly the upper lip: (MF:) pl. جَحَافِلُ. (TA.) Also, (K,) جَحْفَلَتَانِ, (TA,) Two callosities (رَقْمَتَانِ) in the two arms of the horse, (K,) resembling two marks made with a hot iron, facing each other, in the inner side of each arm. (TA.)

They congregated; collected themselves together. (S, K.)