صَافِيَةٌ ذ [fem. of صَافٍ, q. v. ― -b2- And also, as a subst.,] (tropical:) One of what are termed صَوَافِى الإِِمَامِ, which means the towns, or villages, of those who have rebelled against him, which the Imám [or Khaleefeh] chooses for himself [as his peculiar property]: (A, TA:) or, as in the T, الصَّوَافِى signifies what the Sultán appropriates exclusively to those persons whom he specially favours: or, as some say, it means the possessions and lands which their owners have abandoned, or of which the owners have died leaving no heirs thereof. (TA.)
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