محفوري

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Etymology[edit]

Relative noun (nisba) composed of مَحْفُور (maḥfūr, dug) +‎ ـِيّ (-iyy) used first as an epithet of this kind of cloth.

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مَحْفُورِيّ (maḥfūriyym (plural مَحْفُورِيَّات (maḥfūriyyāt))

  1. (obsolete) a kind of streaked rug
    Synonyms: قَطِيفَة (qaṭīfa), زُولِيَّة (zūliyya), زَرْبِيَّة (zarbiyya)
    • a. 1000, المقدسي, edited by Michael Jan de Goeje, أحسن التقاسيم في معرفة الأقاليم [ʾaḥsan at-taqāsīm fī maʿrifa al-ʾaqālīm] (Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum; 3)‎[1], Leiden: E. J. Brill, published 1877, 1906, web 1/139, pages 380 line 8–10:
      ولا نظير لتككهم ومحفوريَّاتهم وقرمزهم وأنماطهم وصبغهم وفاكهة تسمَّى الزُّوقال وقسبويه وسمك يقال له الطِرِّيخ ولهم تين وشاه بلُّوط في غاية الجودة.
      There is nothing resembling their waistbands, their streaked rugs, their crimson, their druggets, their dyes, and the fruit called cornel, and their dentexes, and their fish called pearl mullet. And they have figs and chestnuts of finest quality.

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