بِظُوفِ
Root: ظوف
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بِظُوفِ
and
i. e. [He took him, or laid hold upon him,] by the skin of his neck: or أَخَذَ بِظُوفِ رَقَبَتِهِ and
i. e. [he laid hold upon] the whole of his neck: or the pendent hair in the hollow of the back of his neck: i. q.
بِصُوفِ رَقَبَتِهِ [&c.]. (S. [See more voce صُوفٌ: and see ظَلِيفٌ, last sentence.]) And تَرَكْتُهُ بِظُوفِ رَقَبَتِهِ and
, and بِظُوفِ قَفَاهُ, I left him alone. [And نَجَا بِظُوفِ نَفْسِهِ
He hardly escaped. ]
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