حذّفهُ
Root: حذف
Form: 2
Full Definition
حذّفهُII
, [Verbal.Noun تَحْذِيفٌ,] He clipped it much: he took, or cut off, from its lateral parts, whatever it was, so as to make it even: he made it becomingly even; as though he cut off from it whatever required to be cut off, so that it became free from everything unseemly, and was nicely, neatly, or properly, trimmed. تَحْذِيفُ
الشَّعَرِ [or الرَّأْسِ] signifies The cutting of the hair so as to form a
طُرَّة [q. v.], by taking from its sides so as to make it even [with the cut portion over the forehead]; as is done by, or to, a girl: or تحذيف الرأس is a custom of women, consisting in the removing of the hair from [the sides of] the head as far as a line upon the side of the face made by putting one end of a string, or thread, upon the top of the ear, and the other end upon the angle of the
جَبِين [or part above the temple]: accord. to En-Nadr, the تحذيف of the طُرَّة is the making a [طرّة
such as is termed] سُكَيْنِيَّة, [i. e., after the fashion of Sukeyneh the daughter of El-Hoseyn, as is shown in the S and K &c. in art. سكن,] like as do the Christians.
2 Also, Verbal.Noun as above,
2 Also, Verbal.Noun as above,
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