اوفدهُ عَلَيْهِ

, (M, A, K,) and إِلَيْهِ, (S, M, K,) verbal noun إِيفَادٌ; (K;) and إِلَيْهِ ↓ وفّدهُ, (L,) verbal noun تَوْفِيدٌ; (K;) He sent him to him, (S, M, A, K,) namely, to a king, (A,) or governor, (S,) [or great man, as an ambassador, envoy, or messenger; or to convey gifts, and to ask aid, or assistance: see 1].

الأَمِيرُ إِلَى الأَمِيرِ الَّذِى ↓ وفّدهُ فَوْتَهُ [The governor, sent him as an envoy to the governor who was above him]. (L.)

مَا أَوْفَدَكَ عَلَيْنَا (assumed tropical:) [What hath caused thee to come to us?]. (TA.)

بَيْنَمَا أَنَا فِىضِيقٍ إِذْ أَوْفَدَ اللّٰهُ عَلَىَّ بِرَجُلٍ فَأَخْرَجَنِى مَنْهُ (tropical:) While I was in difficulty, lo, God brought to me a man, and extricated me from it. (A.)

-A2- اوفد عَلَى الشَّىْءِ, verbal noun إِيفَادٌ, (tropical:) It rose up, or stood up, so as to be higher than the thing; overtopped it; overpeered it; overhung it; overlooked it. (S, L, K *.) A poet (Homeyd Ibn-Thór El-Hilálee, TA) says,

تَرَى العِلَافِىَّ عَلَيْهَا مُوفِدَا

كَأَنَّ بَرْجًا فَوْقَهَا مُشَيَّدَا

[Thou seest the 'Iláfee saddle overtopping her, as though a high-raised tower were upon her.] (S, L.) And one says of a horse, مَا أَحْسَنَ مَا أَوْفَدَ حَاركُهُ How beautiful is the prominence of his withers! (S, L.) ↓ توفّد is also synonym with اوفد in the above sense. (K, TA.)

اوفد verbal noun إِيفَادٌ, (tropical:) It (a white antelope) raised its head and erected its ears. (L, K.)

اوفد, verbal noun إِيفَادٌ, He hastened, or went, quickly: (S, L, K:) occurring in the poetry of Ibn-Ahmar. (S, L.)

اوفد, verbal noun إِيفَادٌ, (tropical:) It rose, or became elevated. (A, L, K.)

اوفد, (tropical:) He raised, or elevated, a thing. (L.)