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1 قَفَخَهُ ذ , (S, L,) aor. قَفَخَ , (L,) inf. n. قَفْخٌ and قِفَاخٌ, (S, L, K,) He struck him, or it: but the striking termed قفخ is only on the head, or on something hollow, (S, L, K,) or on something hard [evidently a mistake for moist, or soft]; (L;) i. q. فَقَخَهُ, (K,) and used by the people of ElYemen in the sense of صَقَعَهُ: (L:) he struck a person's head with a staff: (L:) he struck a person on the head with a staff. (As.) He broke a person's head: he broke a thing across: he broke the substance called عَرْمَض upon the surface of water. (L.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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