Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

صَفْحَةٌ

Root: صفح

Full Definition

صَفْحَةٌ : see صَفْحٌ, in ten places.
2 [Hence,] أَبْدَى لَهُ صَفْحَتَهُ i. q. كَاشَفَهُ [which is used alone as meaning كَاشَفَهُ بِالعَدَاوَةِ He showed open enmity, or hostility, with him]: or he showed, or revealed, to him his deed [or crime] which he was concealing. (TA in art. بدو, from a trad. [which shows it to be used in an evil sense].)


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