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مَغْفَلَةٌ ذ The عَنْفَقَة [or tuft of hair beneath the lower lip]; (O, K, TA;) so says Th, (O,) or Ez-Zejjájee: (TA:) not the two sides thereof as it is said to signify by J: (K:) so called because many men neglect [the washing of] it. (TA.) It is said in a trad., عَلَيْكَ بِا@لْمَغْفَلَةِ [Keep thou to the washing of the tuft of hair beneath the lower lip]: meaning that one should use heedfulness in washing it, in the performance of the ablution termed وُضُوء. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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