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فَرْطَحَ

Root: فرطح

Form: Q. 1

Full Definition

فَرْطَحَ
Q. 1
He made broad, or wide, or he spread out, or expanded, anything: and so فَلْطَحَ. Hence, فُرْطِحَ said of a round cake of bread, It was made broad, or wide: said by IB to be correctly فُلْطِحَ, and to be thus in a verse as related by El-Ámidee.
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