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جفّنوا

Root: جفن

Form: 2

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جفّنواII They made bowls (جِفَان [probably meaning they prepared bowls of food: accord. to Freytag's Lex., جفّن means “ apposuit scutellam; but he does not name his authority]).

def.2 جفّن and تجفّن It attained to the state of having an أَصْل [i. e., app., a stock].
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