رُفَاتٌ
Root: رفت
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رُفَاتٌ
A thing, an old and decayed bone, or anything, broken, broken in pieces, crushed, bruised, brayed, or pounded; or crumbled, or broken into small pieces with the hand; or a thing that has become old and worn out, and crumbled, or broken into small pieces: ('Ináyeh, TA: [see مَرْفُوتٌ:]) or broken, or crumbled, particles; fragments, or crumbs; of a thing that is dry, of any kind; [as, for instance,] of musk. Hence, in the Kur [xvii. 52 and 100], أَئِذَا كُنَّا عِظَامًا وَرُفَاتًا
When we shall have become bones and broken particles? [Hence also the phrase] لَا بِرْفَاتِكَ, meaning No, by thy ancestors who have become broken and crumbled bones in the dust. And [hence one says,] هُوَ الَّذِى أَعَادَ
المَكَارِمَ وَأَحْيَا رُفَاتَهَا وَأَنْشَرَ أَمْوَاتَهَا
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