زِفْنٌ

A covering which they make over their flat house-tops to protect them from the heat and dew of the sea; (K;) of the dialect of 'Omán; and ↓ زَفْنٌ is a dialect var. thereof. (TA.)

And Straight and slender palm-branches stripped of their leaves [and cut to certain required lengths], conjoined, one to another, [side by side, by means of split pieces of such branches passing through holes punched in the former,] like the woven mat: (K:) [of such are made chests for cooking utensils and provisions &c.:] of the dialect of Azd. (TA.)