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1 فَحَا بِكَلَامِهِ إِِلَى كَذَا ذ , (Msb, TA,) aor. يَفْحُو [like يَعْلُو], the verb being of the class of عَلَى, (so in the Msb accord. to the TA,) or يَفْحَى [like يَنْفَعُ], the verb being of the class of نَفَعَ, (so accord. to my copy of the Msb,) or, as in copies of the T, يَفْحِى, without teshdeed, the verb being of the class of رَمَى, (TA, [but this is app. a mistranscription for يَفْحَى, as the last radical letter is و,]) inf. n. فَحْوٌ; (Msb, TA;) or بكلامه ↓ فحّى الى كذا, thus accord. to the K, agreeably with what is said by J; (TA;) [but one of my copies of the S has إِِنَّهُ لَيَفْحَى بِكَلَامِهِ إِِلَى كَذَا وَكَذَا; the other copy having ↓ لَيُفَحِّى ;] He meant, or intended, by his saying, or speech, such a thing. (Msb, K, TA. [In the S, the meaning is only indicated by the context.]) -A2- بَكَى حَتَّى فَحِىَ, like رَضِىَ, He (a child) wept until he sobbed. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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