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خَفِيرٌ خفير A protector; one who protects, grants refuge, preserves, saves, rescues, or liberates; (S, A, Msb, K;) from one who seeks or pursues; (Msb;) as also ↓ خُفَرَةٌ : (A, K, TA:) a protector of a people, in whose safeguard they are as long as they remain in his district: (Lth:) pl. خُفَرَآءُ. (A.) One who guards seed-produce from the birds. (TA.) ― -b2- Oae who is protected, to whom refuge is granted, who is preserved, saved, rescued, or liberated. (K.) The K might be thought to imply that ↓ خُفَرَةٌ is also used in this sense; but it is not. (TA.) ― -b3- See also خَفِرٌ.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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