قَفَخَهُ
Root: قفخ
Form: 1
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قَفَخَهُI
, Present.T
ـَ Verbal.Noun قَفْخٌ and قِفَاخٌ, He struck him, or it: but the striking termed قفخ is only on the head, or on something hollow, or on something hard [evidently a mistake for moist, or soft]; i. q.
فَقَخَهُ, and used by the people of ElYemen in the sense of صَقَعَهُ: he struck a person's head with a staff: he struck a person on the head with a staff. He broke a person's head: he broke a thing across: he broke the substance called عَرْمَض upon the surface of water.
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