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حَفٌّ حف : see حَفَّةٌ, in three places. ― -b2- [It is said, accord. to the KL, to signify also What is called in Persian زين كوهه, app. meaning a saddlebow: but this signification, if correct, is probably post-classical.] -A2- Also, and ↓ حَفَفٌ and ↓ حِفَافٌ , A time, or season: (L:) or i. q. أَثَرٌ [a track, &c.]. (K.) You say, جَآءَ عَلَى حَفِّ ذٰلِكَ, and ↓ حَفَفِهِ , and ↓ حِفَافِهِ , (L, K,) He, or it, came in the time, or season, of that: (L:) or the meaning is عَلَى أَثَرِهِ [lit. in the track thereof; and hence, after, or near after, that]. (K.) -A3- فُلَانٌ حَفٌّ بِنَفْسِهِ Such a one is busied with, or anxious about, himself. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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