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8 احتفى احتفى احتفي أحتفى أحتفي ٱحتفى : see 1, first sentence. -A2- And احتفى بِهِ: see 1. -A3- احتفى also signifies He pulled up herbs, or leguminous plants, from the ground (T, Mgh, K) with the ends of his fingers, because of their shortness and paucity; (T, Mgh;) as also اِحْتَفَأَ, (T, Mgh, K,) accord. to one reading of a trad. in which it occurs; and اجتفأ, accord. to another reading of the same; but both these are disallowed by Aboo-Sa'eed. (T, Mgh.) ― -b2- He uprooted, or extirpated, anything. (Aboo-Sa'eed, T.) ― -b3- احتفى القَوْمُ المَرْعَى The people, or party, fed their animals upon the pasturage and left not aught of its herbage: the subst. [denoting the act of doing this] is ↓ حفوة [app. حَفْوَةٌ]. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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