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مُصْفَحٌ ذ Wide, or broad; (S, K;) as also ↓ مُصَفَّحٌ , (K,) which latter is the more common; both applied in this sense to a sword, and to anything; and ↓ مَصْفُوحٌ signifies the same. (TA.) One says, وَجْهُ هٰذَا السَّيْفِ مُصْفَحٌ The face of this sword is wide, or broad; from ↓ أَصْفَحْتُهُ . (S.) And ضَرَبَهُ بِالسَّيْفِ مُصْفَحًا, (S, A, K,) and ↓ مَصْفُوحًا , (IAar, TA,) and ↓ مُصْفِحًا , (A, [this last relating to the agent,]) He struck him with the breadth, or width, [or flat,] of the sword; (S, A, K;) not with its edge: (A:) and ضربه بالسيف غَيْرَ مُصْفَحٍ He struck him with the sword not with its breadth, but with its edge. (TA.) And رَجُلٌ الرَّأْسِ ↓ مُصَفَّحُ A man wide, or broad, in respect of the head; (S, TA;) and so مُصْفَحُ الرَّأْسِ. (TA.) ― -b2- Also Having the two sides of his head depressed, and the side of the forehead prominent, (K, TA,) and the occiput also prominent and conspicuous: (TA:) or having the fore and hind parts of the head projecting. (AZ, Mgh.) ― -b3- And A head compressed in the parts next the temples, so as to be long between the forehead and the back of the neck. (K.) ― -b4- A nose straight in the bone; (K, TA;) having the bone even with the forehead. (TA.) ― -b5- And A smooth, or soft, or smooth and soft, and beautiful, face. (Lh, K.) ― -b6- Applied to a sword, (TA,) Inclined, or bent: (S, K, TA:) and inverted, or reversed: (Ibn-Buzurj, K, TA:) that is turned upon its edge when one strikes with it: and that is inclined, or bent, when one desires to sheath it. (TA.) ― -b7- It is said in a trad., قَلْبُ المُؤْمِنِ مُصْفَحٌ عَلَى الحَقِّ, meaning (assumed tropical:) The heart of the believer is inclined to the truth; (S, L;) as though its side (صَفْحُهُ i. e. جَانِبُهُ) were placed upon it. (L.) And مُصْفَحٌ applied to a heart signifies also (assumed tropical:) Turned away from the truth: (TA:) [or] so applied, in which are combined faith and hypocrisy: (K, TA:) or, accord. to Khálid, that falls short of its duty; in which is latent rancour, malevolence, malice, or spite; and which is not sincere in its religion: (Sh, TA:) or it means double-faced; one who meets the unbelievers with one face, and the believers with another face; صَفْحٌ signifying the “ face, ” of anything. (IAth, TA.) -A2- And المُصْفَحُ is a name of The sixth of the arrows used in the game called المَيْسِر; (S, K;) as also المُسْبِلُ. (S.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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