ضَفٌّ
Root: ضف
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ضَفٌّ
Narrow, or strait, and hard: so in the phrase رَجُلٌ ضَفُّ الحَالِ [A man whose state, or condition, is narrow, or strait, and hard]: and one says also رجل الحَالِ and قَوْمٌ ضَفَفُوا الحَالِ; but idghám is more proper.
def.2 شَاةٌ ضَفَّةُ الشُّخْبِ A ewe, or goat, whose stream of milk from the udder is wide.
def.2 شَاةٌ ضَفَّةُ الشُّخْبِ A ewe, or goat, whose stream of milk from the udder is wide.
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