Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

صَفِيحٌ

Root: صفح

Full Definition

صَفِيحٌ : see صَفِيحَةٌ, in four places. [It is properly a coll. gen. n.: as such signifying Any kind of thing made flat and broad or wide: as, for instance, plate, or expanded metal: n. un. with ة, meaning a piece thereof.]
2 [Hence, as it is supposed to be an expanded solid substance,] الصَّفِيحُ, or الصَّفِيحُ الأَعْلَى, is one of the names of Heaven.


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