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عَافٍ ذ Being, or becoming, effaced, erased, rased, or obliterated: [&c.: see 1, of which it is a part. n.:] pl. عُفِىٌّ. (S, TA.) -A2- Having long hair. (S, K.) ― -b2- A fleshy, plump, boy. (TA.) And عَافِيَةُ اللَّحْمِ A she-camel having much flesh: pl. عَافِيَاتٌ. (K.) ― -b3- And أَرْضٌ عَافِيَةٌ A land of which the herbage, not having been depastured, has become abundant. (TA.) -A3- Some broth that is returned in the cooking-pot when it has been borrowed: (K:) or عَافِى القِدْرِ means what is left in the cooking-pot (As, S, M) by the borrower, for the lender. (M, TA.) [See also عَفْوَةٌ.] -A4- A guest: (S, * K:) and any seeker, or demander, of a favour or bounty, (S, K,) or of means of subsistence: as also ↓ مُعْتَف : (K:) pl. عُفَاةٌ (S, TA) and عُفِىُّ, (S, * K,) both signifying guests, &c., (TA,) as also عَافِيَةٌ; (S, * TA;) which last signifies also beasts, and birds, (S, TA,) as well as men, (S,) seekers of, or seeking, the means of subsistence; (S, TA;) and its pl. is عَوَافٍ. (TA.) One says, هُوَ كَثِيرُ العُفَاةِ and العَافِيَةِ and العُفِىِّ [He is one who has many guests, &c.]. (S, TA.) ― -b2- And A seeker of herbage. (K, * TA. [In the CK, الزّائِدُ is erroneously put for الرَّائِدُ.]) ― -b3- And A comer to water: (K, * TA:) and عَافِيَةُ المَآءِ the comers to the water. (S, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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