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صَفْصَفٌ

Root: صف

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صَفْصَفٌ A level, or an even, tract of land or ground: thus expl. by AA, and by Mujáhid, as used in the Kur xx. 106: by others as meaning smooth: accord. to Fr, having in it no herbage: and accord. to IAar, bald: pl. صَفَاصِفُ: or أَرْضٌ صَفْصَفٌ signifies a smooth, and level, or even, land; and so, accord. to IJ, [the fem.] صَفْصَفَةٌ. Also, or صَفْصَفَةٌ [app. as an epithet in which the quality of a subst. is predominant], A desert, or waterless desert; syn. فَلَاةٌ; from IDrd.
2 And The حَرْف [i. e. ridge, or brow, or ledge,] of a mountain.
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