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خَصَّافٌ

Root: خصف

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خَصَّافٌ One who sews soles [so as to make them double, covering, or facing, one piece with another: see 1]: or one who patches soles; who mends them by sewing on other pieces.
2 One who covers his pudendum with his hand: on the authority of Seer.
3 A liar: as though he sewed one saying upon another, and [thus] embellished it.
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