حَنَفٌ
Root: حنف
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حَنَفٌ
, originally, A natural wryness: and particularly an inversion of the foot, so that the upper side becomes the lower: so says IDrd; or a crookedness in the leg, or foot; i. e., a turning of one of the great toes towards the other: or [a distortion that causes] one's walking on the outer part of the foot, on the side in which is the little toe: (K: [and so accord. to an explanation of
أَحْنَفُ by IAar cited in the S:]) or an inclining [app. inwards] in the fore part of the foot.
2 Accord. to Ibn- 'Arafeh and the K, it signifies also A right state or condition or tendency; and accord. to the former, the epithet أَحْنَفُ is applied to him who has a wry leg, or foot, only by way of presaging a right state: but Er-Rághib explains حَنَفٌ better, as signifying an inclining, from error, to a right state or tendency.
2 Accord. to Ibn- 'Arafeh and the K, it signifies also A right state or condition or tendency; and accord. to the former, the epithet أَحْنَفُ is applied to him who has a wry leg, or foot, only by way of presaging a right state: but Er-Rághib explains حَنَفٌ better, as signifying an inclining, from error, to a right state or tendency.
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