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مُصَفَّحٌ ذ : see مُصْفَحٌ, in two places. ― -b2- [Hence,] مُصَفَّحَةٌ signifies A sword; as also ↓ مُصَفِّحَةٌ : (K: [but see what follows:]) accord. to IAar, مُصَفَّحَاتٌ [its pl. (K)] signifies swords; because they are made broad, or wide, and lengthened out, in the forging: (S:) or, as some say, it signifies broad, or wide, swords. (TA. [See also صَفِيحَةٌ.]) Lebeed says, describing clouds, “ كَأَنَّ مُصَفَّحَاتٍ فِى ذُرَاهَا
وَأَنْوَاحًا عَلَيْهِنَّ المَآلِى
” [As though there were swords, or broad swords, upon their summits, and wailing women having upon them the pieces of rag which such women hold in wailing and with which they make signs]: (S, TA:) Az says that he likens the lightning, in the darkness of the clouds, to broad swords: (TA:) and IAar says that مصفّحات here means swords: but as some relate the verse, the word is ↓ مُصَفِّحَات [meaning women clapping their hands]; as though he likened the clouds' discovering themselves when the lightning shone from them, and they opened, and then met together after the lightning's becoming extinct, to the clapping of women's hands: (S: in some copies of which, الغَيْث is put for الغَيْم:) or, accord. to this reading, he likens the sound of the thunder to women's clapping of their hands. (TA.) ― -b3- Also A she-camel (T, L) that is kept from being milked, in order that she may become fat. (T, L, K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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