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صَفَنٌ ذ The scrotum (S, M, Msb, K) of a man; (S, Msb;) as also ↓ صُفْنٌ , (M,) or ↓ صَفْنٌ , (K,) and ↓ صَفْنَةٌ and ↓ صُفْنَةٌ : (M:) pl. أَصْفَانٌ (S, M, Msb) and صُفْنَانٌ. (Msb.) ― -b2- And (tropical:) The envelope of the ear of corn: (K, TA:) so called by way of comparison [to the scrotum]. (TA.) ― -b3- And The habitation that is compacted (M, * K, TA) by a bird, or flying thing, (M,) or by the hornet and the like, (K, TA,) of dry herbage and of leaves, (M, TA,) for its young ones, (M, K, TA,) or for itself. (K, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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