حَفٌّ
Root: حف
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حَفٌّ
Going round about, circuiting, compassing, or surrounding. It is said in the Kur [xxxix. last verse], وَتَرَي المَلَائِكَةَ حَافِّينَ
مِنْ حَوْلِ العَرْشِ And thou shalt see the angels surrounding the
عرش: or surrounding the sides thereof: or going round about on either side thereof.
2 مَا لَهُ حَافٌّ وَلَا رَافٌّ: see 1.
def.2 سَوِيقٌ حَافٌّ [Meal of parched barley] not moistened with water or with clarified butter or the like. [خُبْزٌ حَافٌّ, in the present day, means Dry bread; i. e. bread without anything savoury.] And هُوَحَافُّ المَطْعَم He is one whose food is dry.
def.3 See also حَافٌ, in art. حوف.
2 مَا لَهُ حَافٌّ وَلَا رَافٌّ: see 1.
def.2 سَوِيقٌ حَافٌّ [Meal of parched barley] not moistened with water or with clarified butter or the like. [خُبْزٌ حَافٌّ, in the present day, means Dry bread; i. e. bread without anything savoury.] And هُوَحَافُّ المَطْعَم He is one whose food is dry.
def.3 See also حَافٌ, in art. حوف.
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