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صَفُوحٌ ذ One who has the quality of turning away from the crimes, sins, faults, or offences, of others, and of forgiving; [or rather wont to turn away &c.;] as also ↓ صَفَّاحٌ : (TA:) الصَّفُوحُ, (K, TA,) as an epithet applied to God, (TA,) means the Very Forgiving; or He who forgives much. (K, TA.) ― -b2- And Generous; (K;) because the generous man forgives those who act injuriously towards him. (TA.) ― -b3- And A woman who turns away from one; who forsakes one's society: as though not giving aught but her side. (K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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