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ضِفَّةٌ ذ (T, S, O, Mgh, Msb, K) and ↓ ضَفَّةٌ (T, O, Mgh, Msb, K) The side of a river (T, S, O, Mgh, Msb, K) and of a well: (Msb:) ضِفَّتَاهُ signifying its (a river's) two sides: (S:) and الوَادِى ↓ ضَفَّتَا , or الحَيْزُومِ, and ضِفَّتَاهُ, the two sides of the valley, or of the حيزوم [i. e. breast, or chest, &c.]: (IAar, K:) and البَحْرِ ↓ ضَفَّةُ [or ضِفَّتُهُ] the shore of the sea: (K:) and the dual of ↓ ضَفَّةٌ [or ضِفَّةٌ?] occurs in a saying of 'Alee metaphorically used as meaning (assumed tropical:) the two sides of the eyelids: (TA:) the pl. of ضِفَّةٌ is ضِفَفٌ, (Msb,) or ضِفَاف; (TA;) and that of ↓ ضَفَّةٌ is ضَفَّاتٌ. (Msb.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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