أَصْلَفُ

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أَصْلَفُ Hard, applied to a place; and so [the fem.] applied to land (أَرْض): or both signify hard ground containing stones; or hard and rugged ground; and the pl. is صَلَافٍ, (M, O, K, * [in the last, erroneously, صَلَافِى, and in the O, correctly, الصَّلَافِى, being made determinate,]) thus pluralized in the same manner as صَحْرَآء because the quality of a subst. is predominant therein, and [for the same reason] أَصَالِفُ also; [the former pl. of صلفآء, and the latter of اصلف:] or صَلْفَآء and , [each, app., with tenween, the latter because of the measure فِعْلَآء, and each because receiving the affix ة, for it is added,] and likewise and , rugged, hard ground: or a smooth rock, or a hard, smooth, bare rock, even with the ground.

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