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1 صَدَفَ عَنِّى ذ , (S, O,) or عَنْهُ, (Msb, K,) aor. صَدِفَ , (O, K,) He turned away from, avoided, shunned, and left, (S, O, Msb, K,) me, (S, O,) or him, or it; (Msb, K;) so the verb signifies in the Kur vi. 158 [and a similar instance occurs in verse 46 of the same chap.]; (O;) and so عَنْهُ ↓ تصدّف : (O, * K:) and (so in the K [but more properly “ or ”]) صَدَفَ, (A'Obeyd, M, O, K,) aor. صَدِفَ (M, K) and صَدُفَ , (K,) inf. n. صَدْفٌ and صُدُوفٌ, (M, O, K, TA, [صَدَفًا in the CK is a mistake,]) he turned away, (A'Obeyd, M, O, K, TA,) or became turned away, or back, (O, K, TA,) and declined, (K, TA,) عَنْهُ from it, (M, O,) namely, a thing; (O;) said of a man. (K.) And صَدَفَتْ, said of a woman, She turned away her face. (Msb.) -A2- See also 4. -A3- صَدَفٌ is an inf. n. (S, M, O, Msb) of which the verb is صَدِفَ, (M, Msb,) and from which is derived the epithet ↓ أَصْدَفُ applied to a horse, or to a camel: (S, M, O:) it signifies, in relation to a horse, The having the thighs near together, and the hoofs far apart, with a twisting of the pasterns (S, O, K:) or a crookedness in the fore legs: (M:) or an inclining in the hoof towards the off side: (ISk, S, M, Mgh, O, K:) or an inclining of the foot (As, S, M, Mgh, O, Msb, K) of the fore leg or of the kind leg (As, S, M, O, Msb) of the camel, towards the off side; (As, S, M, Mgh, O, Msb, K;) if towards the near side, the epithet applied to him is أَقْفَدُ, (As, S, O, K,) and the verb is قَفِدَ, inf. n. قَفَدٌ: (TA:) or an inclining in the قَدَم [or human foot]; As says, I know not whether from the right or from the left: or an approaching of one of the knees towards the other; thus, peculiarly, in the horse: or a nearness together of [the two tendons called] the عُجَايَتَانِ, and a wideness apart of the hoofs, with a twisting of the pasterns; one of the natural faults of horses: (M:) (Mtr says,] as meaning a twisting in the neck, I have not found it. (Mgh.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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