وَافِدٌ

A man coming to a king, (A,) or governor, (S, A,) [or great man,] as an ambassador, or envoy, or messenger; (S, A;) [or to convey gifts, and to ask aid, or assistance: See 1:] plural, (S, L,) or [rather] this first is a quasi-plural n., (L,) ↓ وَفْدٌ (S, A, L, K) and وُفَّدٌ (K) and وُفَّادٌ; (A, Msb;) and plural of وَفْدٌ, أَوْقَادٌ and وُفُودٌ: (S, L, Msb, K:) وَفْدٌ is also explained as signifying a party that assembles together and comes to a country or town: and a party that repairs to princes, or governors, to visit, and to ask aid, or assistance, or some benefit, &c.: (L:) and a party that comes to a king respecting an affair of conquest, or for congratulation, or the like: (Mgh:) and a company chosen to go forth for the purpose of having an interview with great men: (En-Nawawee:) and a company of riders: (Jel, xix. 88:) and a company riding and honoured: (Zj, in explanation of the same verse of the Qur'an-an:) but from the explanations in the K, and other lexicons, it seems to signify a party coming, whether walking or riding, chosen for the purpose of having an interview with great men, or not: the explanations of En-Nawawee and some others may be in accordance with general or conventional acceptations, and those of the rest may be proper, or literal. (TA.)

وَافِدٌ (tropical:) A camel, (S, A, K,) or bird, (A,) or bird of the kind called القَطَا, (K,) that precedes the others (S, A, K) in pace, and in coming to water. (A.)

الوَافِدَانِ (in the poetry of ElAasha, S, L) (tropical:) The parts of the two cheeks which project when one chews, and which become depressed when one grows old. (S, A, L, K.) One says of a very old man, غَابَ وَافِدَاهُ (tropical:) [The middles of his cheeks have become depressed]. (A.)