أَصْفَقَ
Root: صفق
Form: 4
Full Definition
2 and see also 2.
def.2 أَصْفَقُوا عَلَيْهِ i. q. تَبَايَعُوا عَلَيْهِ [i. e. They made a covenant, or compact, respecting it, or to do it, as though by striking their hands together], namely, the thing, or affair: (TA in art. بيع: [see صَفَقَ يَدَهُ بِالبَيْعَةِ; and see also 3, and 6, and صَفْقَةٌ:]) they combined consentaneously, or agreed together, respecting it, or to do it, namely, the thing, or affair; syn. أَطْبَقُوا عَلَيْهِ, or اِجْتَمَعُوا عَلَيْهِ. And أَصْفَقُوا عَلَيْنَا [They combined, or collected themselves together, against us]. أَصْفَقَتْ لَهُ
2 اصفق لَهُمْ He brought them as much food as would satisfy their hunger: said in relation to the entertainment of guests.
3 أَصْفَقَتْ يَدُهُ بِكَذَا, or يَدِى, His hand, or my hand, lighted on, met with, or encountered, such a thing; syn. صَادَفَتْهُ and وَافَقَتْهُ. En-Nemir Ibn-Towlab says, describing a جَزَّار [or slaughterer of camels],
[Until, or until when, the share was divided, and his hand lighted on the skin of her udder and her young one]. (S, O, TA: but in the S, طُرِحَ is put in the place of قُسِمَ.)حَتَّى إِذَا قُسِمَ النَّصِيبُ وَأَصْفَقَتْ يَدُهُ بِجَلْدَةِ ضَرْعِهَا وَحُوَارِهَا
def.3 أَصْفَقَ القَوْمُ The people, or party, were, or became, in a state of commotion, or tumult; syn. اِضْطَرَبُوا.
def.4 أُصْفِقَ لِى It was appointed, or ordained, for me; or prepared for me.
def.5 اصفق الغَنَمَ He milked the sheep, or goats, but once in the day; and so with س: (TA in art. سفق:) or الإِصْفَاقُ signifies the milking once in the day and night.
def.6 اصفق الثَّوْبَ He wove the garment strongly, stoutly, firmly, thickly, substantially, closely, or compactly.
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