آفَتِ

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آفَتِI , Present.T تَؤُوفُ, Verbal.Noun أَوْفٌ and آفَةٌ and أُوُوفٌ, or أُؤُوفٌ, The country, or countries, had therein what is termed آفَة [i. e. a blight or blast or the like, or a pest or plague or the like]. And إِيفَ الطَّعَامُ, or الزَّرْعُ, or البَّشْىءُ, with the verb in the pass. form, like قِيلَ, The wheat, or seed-produce, or thing, became affected, or smitten, with what is termed آفَة [i. e. a blight, blast, taint, canker, or the like]. And آفَ القَوْمُ, and أُوفُوا, thus in a correct copy of the 'Eyn, and إِيفُوا, and أُفُوا, [in the CK اُفِّفُوا,]) and إِفُوا, (Lth, T, K, [in the CK اُفُوا,]) the last, namely, إِفُوا, with the ا termed مُمَالَة, having a quiescent letter [i. e. ى] rendered apparent by utterance but not by writing, between it and the ف, (T, K, * [in which is a strange omission, of the words سَاكِنٌ بَيَّنَهُ اللَّفْظُ لَا الخَطُّ as in the T, or سَاكِنَةٌ يُبَيِّنُهَا الخ as in the TA,] TA,) The people became affected, or smitten, with what is termed آفَة [i. e. a pest or plague or the like]. Lth says, in this case one says إِفُوا, and in one dial. إِيفُوا: in several copies of his book, in one dial. أُفِّفُوا, with two distinct ف s, of which the former is with teshdeed: but in some copies as mentioned just before.

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