قَذَفَ بِٱلْحِجارَةِ وَغَيْرِهَا, aor. ـِ {يَقْذِفُ}, inf. n. قَذْفٌ, He threw stones,, &c. (Mṣb.)

قَذَفَ بِهِ He cast it; cast it forth; namely, an arrow, and a pebble, and speech, and anything. (Lth, TA.) It may sometimes be rendered He shed it; as, for instance, light into the heart, said of God.

يَقْذِفُ بِالحَقِّ (Ḳur, xxxiv. 47,) He (God) uttereth truth. (Zj, TA.)

قَذَفَ بِالسَّهْمِ He shot the arrow. (Lth, TA.)

قَذَفَ He reproached, upbraided, reviled, vilified, defamed, or gave a bad name to, a chaste woman: (MA:) he reproached, upbraided,, &c. another; syn. شَتَمَ. (JK.) Used tropically, قَذَفَهُ is most correctly rendered ‡ He cast at him an accusation: but it is commonly used and expl. as syn. with شَتَمَهَ q. v.

قَذَفَ He charged, reproached, or upbraided, (رَمَى,) a chaste, or an honest, or a married, woman, with adultery. (Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ.)

قَذَفَهَ بِهِ He aspersed him, reviled him; syn. شَتَمَهُ. (JK.)

قَذَفَهَ بِهِ He reproached, or upbraided, him with it; he accused him of it. (TA.)

Also, i. q. أَصَابَهُ بِهِ. (TA.)

وَيَقْذِفُونَ بِالغَيْبِ (Ḳur, xxxiv. 52,) They uttering conjectures, (Zj, TA,) or uttering conjecture; (Bḍ;) speaking of that which was hidden [from them], (Ksh,) of that which had not become apparent to them. (Bḍ.)

قُذِفَتْ بِاللَّحْمِ † She (a camel) became fat and plump. (TA, voce اُسْتُعْرِضَت.)

قَذَفَتْهُ القَوَاذِفُ: see طَوَّحَتْهُ الطَّوَائِحُ.

قُذُفٌ Land in which is no pasturage wherein cattle may freely range. (L, art. صح.)

قَذَّافٌ i. q. مَنْجَنِيقٌ: (Lth, Ḳ:) The kind of instrument with which a thing is thrown so that it goes far; n. un. with ة {قَذَّافَةٌ}. (Aboo-Kheyreh, Ḳ.) See مَرْجَامٌ and مِرْجَمَةٌ.

قُذَّافَهٌ A sling: pl. قُذَّافَاتٌ. (MA.)

قَوَاذِفُ: see طَوَائِحُ; and طَوَّحَتْهُ الطَّوَائِحُ.

مَقَاذِفُ: see مَطَاوِحُ: Places of perdition; syn. مَهَالِكُ. (TA.)