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اشتاف

Root: شوف

Form: 8

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اشتافVIII He stretched himself up, and looked: and in like manner one says of horses. [See also 5.]
2 And اشتاف البَرْقَ He looked at the lightning, or at the cloud thereof, to see whither it was tending, and where it would rain; syn. شَامَهُ.

def.2 Also, said of a wound, It became rough, or thick; and so , thus without hemz.
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