صَفِيفٌ

Root: صف

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صَفِيفٌ Flesh-meat such as has been laid, cut into a strip, or into strips, (صُفَّ, S, K, and the like in the M and O, or شُرِحَ وَصُفَّ, Mgh,) upon the live coals to broil or to become thoroughly cooked, or upon the pebbles, and then roasted, or broiled, or in the sun, to dry: or flesh-meat cut into strips, or oblong pieces, and dried in the sun, or, as Lth says, and in like manner Ks, spread in the sun [to dry]: or flesh-meat cut into broad slices: or, accord. to Khálid Ibn-Jembeh, flesh-meat cut into slices, not in the manner of قَدِيد, but made broad, like cakes of bread [which are generally about a span, or somewhat less, in width, round and flat]: [or cut thin so as to be translucent: ] or flesh-meat made to boil once, and then taken up [from the fire].

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