سَفْعَةٌ

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سَفْعَةٌ A stroke from a devil: or a touch of madness or diabolical possession, in a person, as though a devil had laid hold upon his نَاصِيَة: [see سَفَعَ بَنَاصِيَتِهِ:] or a stroke with the evil eye: or a stroke of an [evil] eye by which one is affected from the jinn's looking at him; as also نَظْرَةٌ: (T in art. نظر:) or an evil eye. (K, TA: [in the CK, for سَفْعَةٌأىْ عَيْنٌ, is put سَفْعَةٌ أَوْ عَيْنٌ.]) One says, بَهِ سَفْعَةٌ In him is a touch of madness, &c. And أَصَابَتْهُ سَفْعَةٌ An evil eye smote him.

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