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ثفّى

Root: ثفى

Form: 2

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ثفّىII , He put the cooking-pot upon the أَثَافِى [pl. of أُثْفِيَّةٌ, q. v.]; as also ; and اثّفها, Verbal.Noun تَأْثِيفٌ; and أَثَفَهَا; or آثَفَهَا, Verbal.Noun إِيثَافٌ: or signifies he put, or made, for it أَثَافِى.
2 [Hence,] ثُفِّيَتِ المَرْأَةُ The woman was a wife of a man who had two wives beside herself; she being the third of them; they being likened to the أَثَافِى of the cooking-pot. And He took three women as his wives.
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