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زَيْفٌ ذ : see زَائِفٌ, in four places. -A2- Also The إِِفْرِيز, i. e., (Kr, TA,) the طَنَف, (Kr, O, K, TA,) [meaning the coping, or ledge, or cornice,] that protects a wall, (O, K, TA,) surrounding the upper part of the wall, (Kr,) or surrounding the walls at the top of a house: (TA:) or, as some say, (O, in the K “ and, ”) the steps, or stairs, of places of ascent: (O, K:) or, as some say, (Kr, O, in the K “ and, ”) i. q. شُرَفٌ [meaning acroterial ornaments forming a single member of a cresting of a wall, or of the crown of a cornice]: n. un. with ة. (Kr, O, K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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