تَصْحِيفٌ
Root: صحف
Form: 2
Full Definition
تَصْحِيفٌII
signifies The making a mistake in a
صَحِيفَة, by reason of the ambiguity, or dubiousness, of the letters: a postclassical term: or the reading a thing in a manner at variance with what the writer intended, or at variance with the conventional usage thereof: a secondary signification is the altering a word, or an expression, in such a manner that the meaning intended by the application [thereof] becomes altered: or it consists in the altering of a diacritical point [or points]; as in
النفى
for
النقى, or vice versâ: (KT, after التَّحْرِيفُ:) one says, صحّف اللَّفْظَ
He altered the word, or expression, [in such a manner that the meaning intended by the application thereof became altered, or] so that it became dubious [to the reader]. [See also تَحْرِيف, in the first paragraph of art. حرف.]
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