تصفّحهُ

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تصفّحهُV He examined its صَفَحَات [or sides]; i. e. a thing's: or he considered it carefully, or attentively, and examined its صَفَحَات. And تَصَفَّحْتُ الكِتَابَ I turned over, or examined, the صَفَحَات, meaning pages, of the book; as also , Verbal.Noun صَفْحٌ: and وَرَقَ المُصْحَفِ I examined the leaves of the مُصْحَف [i. e. volume, or book, or copy of the Kur-án,] one by one. And تصفّح القَوْمَ, and , He looked at the people, seeking for a particular man: or he examined the states, or conditions, of the people, and looked among them, to ascertain whether such a one was to be seen: or he made the people to pass before him, and examined them, one by one: or he beheld [or looked at] the صَفَحَات [or sides] of the faces of the people. And تصفّح وُجُوهَ القَوْمِ He examined carefully, or attentively, the faces of the people, looking at their external appearances and forms, and seeking to make himself acquainted with their cases: and he looked at the faces of the people, seeking to know them; as also . And تصفّح الأَمْرَ, and تصفّح فِى الأَمْرِ, and الأَمْرَ, and صَفَحَ فِى الأَمْرِ, He looked into the affair, or case.

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