لَفَأَ

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لَفَأَI , Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun لَفْءٌ and لَفَآءٌ; and ; He stripped off, or peeled off, meat from a bone.
2 لَفَأَتِ الرِّيحُ السَّحَابَ عَنْ وَجْهِ السَّمَآءِ [The wind stripped off the clouds from the face of the sky].
3 لَفَأَ, Verbal.Noun لَفْءٌ, He peeled a bone or a stick.
4 لَفَأَ He beat with a staff or stick.
5 He turned a person back, or away, from his purpose.
6 لَفَأَ i. q. إِغْتَابَ; He traduced a person behind his back, or in his absence, but saying of him what was true. Thought to be tropical, from the same verb signifying “ he peeled. ”

def.2 لَفِىءَ, Present.T ـَ He, or it remained, or endured.

def.3 لَفَأَهُ حَقَّهُ He gave him the whole of what was due to him: (like لَكَأَهُ: T:) or لفأه signifies he gave him less than his due. Accord. to Aboo-Turab, the verb is used in these two contr. senses.

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