زَخْرَفَةٌ
Root: زخرف
Form: Q. 1
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زَخْرَفَةٌ
signifies The adorning, ornamenting, decorating, or embellishing, of a thing, primarily, with
زُخْرُف, i. e. gold: and hence, the adorning, &c., of falsehood, or a lie: and the falsifying or adulterating [of speech &c.]. You say, زَخْرَفَ البَيْتَ, Verbal.Noun زَخْرَفَةٌ, He adorned, ornamented, decorated, or embellished, the house, or chamber, &c.; and rendered it complete: and زُخْرِفَ is said of anything as meaning It was adorned, ornamented, decorated, or embellished. And زَخْرَفَ الكَلَامَ
He arranged, or rightly disposed, or put into a right or proper state, the speech, or language: and i. q.
رَقَّشَهُ [i. e. he embellished it; generally meaning, with lies]. (S, A, K, in art. رقش.) [This verb is mentioned and explained by Freytag as on the authority of the K, in which it is not found in this art.]
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