لفج4 أَلْفَجَ and أُلْفِجَ He (a man) clave to the ground by reason of sorrow, grief, or solicitude, or of want. (L.) b2:  الفج, inf. n. إِلْفَاجٌ, He, or it, constrained, compelled, or necessitated, a person, to have recourse to one, or to others, not of his family; (K;) constrained him to beg of such. (L.) b3:  أَلْفَجَنِى إِلَى ذٰلِكَ الإِضْطِرَارُ Necessity constrained me to have recourse to that. (Az.) b4:  أَلْفَجَ, [not أُلْفِجَ, as might be thought from the signification of the part. n. مُلْفَجٌ,] (inf. n. إِلْفَاجٌ; S;) and ↓ استلفج; (L:) He became a bankrupt; syn. أَفْلَسَ: (S, K:) he was, or became, poor: (TA:) he became destitute, possessing nothing. (A 'Obeyd.) 10 است see 4. b2:  Also, He was, or became, constrained to have recourse to a thing: or was in need. (TA.) لَفْجٌ Abasement; abjectness. (IAar, K.) لُفْجٌ The channel of a torrent. (L.) مُلْفَجٌ (S, K) and ↓ مُلْفِجٌ (ISk) and ↓ مُسْتَلْفَجٌ (K) or مُسْتَلْفِجٌ (as in the L.) A man in a state of bankruptcy: a bankrupt; syn. مُفْلِسٌ: (S, K:) or the former, poor: (ISk:) or a bankrupt and in debt: (IAth:) or destitute; possessing nothing: (A 'Obeyd:) the first extr. [with respect to rule], (S, K,) like مُحْصَنٌ from أَحْصَنَ, and مُسْهَبَ from أَسْهَبَ. (S.) [See مُسْهَبٌ.]مُلْفِجٌ: see مُلْفَجٌ.مُسْتَلْفَجٌ, (as in the K,) or ↓ مُسْتَلْفِجٌ, (as in the L [and this latter I think the correct mode of writing the word in all the senses here explained, for I do not find it noted as extr. with respect to rule like مُلْفَجٌ,]) [part. n. of 10, q. v.: and] i. q.  مُلْفَجٌ, q. v. (K.) b2:  One whose heart forsakes him, or fails him, by reason of fear, or fright. (K.) b3:  Cleaving to the ground by reason of emaciation, (K,) or of sorrow, grief, or solicitude, or of want; as also ملفج [i. e. مُلْفِجٌ and مُلْفَجٌ: see 4]. (TA.) مُسْتَلْفِجٌ: see مُسْتَلْفَجٌ.