محفور

Arabic

Adjective

مَحْفُور (maḥfūr) (feminine مَحْفُورَة (maḥfūra), masculine plural مَحْفُورُونَ (maḥfūrūna), feminine plural مَحْفُورَات (maḥfūrāt))

  1. passive participle of حَفَرَ (ḥafara, to dig)
  2. streaked (of a fabric)
    • 977, أبو القاسم بن حوقل, Michael Jan de Goeje, editor, كتاب مسالك والممالك [kitāb masālik wa-l-mamālik] (Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum; 2), Leiden: E. J. Brill, published 1873, page 246 line 16:
      […] أنخاخ تعرف بالأرمنيّ المحفور يقلُّ نظيرها في جميع النواحي الّتي يشبهون أعمالهم بها
      […] carpets known in Armenian as streaked, the like of which is brought into all localities where they copy their work in it.

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