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ارعفهُ

Root: رعف

Form: 4

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ارعفهُIV He incited him, or urged him, to hasten, or be quick: but this is said to be not of established authority.
2 [And He, or it, made his nose to bleed, or flow with blood: often used in this sense; as in the S and A and K voce أَنْثَرَ, and in the L and K voce لَبْخَةٌ: and so رعّفه : accord. to Ibn-Maaroof,] the inf. ns. إِرْعَافٌ and signify the bringing blood from the nose.
3 And ارعف القِرْبَةَ He filled the skin so that it overflowed ( حَتَّى ): whence the saying of a rájiz, ['Amr Ibn-Leja, so in a copy of the S,] أَعْلَاهَا مِنِ ٱمْتِلَائِهَا [Its upper part overflows, or overflowing, by reason of its fulness].
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