صحف

مُصْحَفٌ ذ (Th, S, Mgh, O, Msb, K) and ↓ مِصْحَفٌ (Th, S, O, Msb, K) and ↓ مَصْحَفٌ; (Th, O, K;) the first of which is the original, (Fr, S, O, Msb,) being from أُصْحِفَ meaning as expl. above, and one of certain words that are pronounced by [some of] the Arabs with kesr to the م instead of damm because the latter is deemed by them difficult of utterance, of which words are also مِخْدَعٌ and مِطْرَفٌ and مِغْزَلٌ and مِجْسَدٌ, (Fr, S, O,) or, accord. to AZ, Temeem pronounce the م with kesr, and Keys pronounce it with damm, [as do most persons in the instance of مصحف in the present day,] and Th says that مَصْحَفٌ, with fet-h, is correct and chaste; (O;) [ A book, or volume, consisting of ] a collection of صُحُف, (S, Mgh, O, K, TA,) written upon, and put between two boards: (TA:) [generally applied in the present day to a copy of the Kur-án: ] and also signifying a [ portion of a book, such as is termed ] كُرَّاسَة: but the former is the primary [and more common] signification: (Mgh:) pl. مَصَاحِفُ. (KL.) See also صَحِيفَةٌ.