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نَدَفَ

Root: ندف

Form: 1

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نَدَفَI [He separated and loosened cotton by means of a bow and a kind of wooden mallet, by striking the string of the bow with the mallet: see حَلَجَ; and حَرَنَ] he beat cotton with the , also called , i. e., his wooden implement with which he strikes the bowstring, that it [the cotton] might become fine.
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