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حَفَّفَ

Root: حف

Form: 2

Full Definition

حَفَّفَII see 1, in two places:
2 see also 4.

def.2 Also حفّف, Verbal.Noun تَحْفِيفٌ, He was in a state of embarrassment, or distress, and his property became little: from حَفَّتِ الأَرْضُ “ the earth, or land, dried up. ” حفّف وَجْهُهُ occurs in a trad. [app. in the same sense].


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