انصرف
Root: صرف
Form: 7
Full Definition
انصرفVII
, Verbal.Noun اِنْصِرَافٌ, and مُنْصَرَفٌ is also sometimes an Verbal.Noun thereof as well as a n. of place, quasi-pass. of صَرَفَهُ, said of a thing, or of a man; as such signifying It [or he] turned, or went, away, or back, from its [or his] way, or course; or was, or became, turned, or sent, or put, away, or back, therefrom; or averted, or repelled, therefrom: [or shifted from one state, or condition, to another: ] or i. q.
اِنْكَفَّ; so in the copies of the K; but [this is an inadequate explanation;] the right [or better] explanation is انْكَفَأَ [i. e. he, or it, reverted, or returned; or was, or became, turned away or back]; agreeably with what is said in the O. ثُمَّ ٱنْصَرَفُوا in the Kur [ix. 128] means Then they return, or go back, from the place in which they have listened: or then they turn away from doing aught of that which they have heard.
2 [Accord. to Golius, it signifies also It ran in a small stream; or the like; for he explains it as meaning “ manavit: ” but for this he names no authority.
3 Said of a noun, it means It was inflected, or declined, with tenween.]
2 [Accord. to Golius, it signifies also It ran in a small stream; or the like; for he explains it as meaning “ manavit: ” but for this he names no authority.
3 Said of a noun, it means It was inflected, or declined, with tenween.]
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