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صفق

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

2 صَفَّقَ see 1, former half, in five places. ― -b2- التَّصْفِيقُ بِاليَدِ means The making a sound with the hand [ by clapping ]: (S:) one says, صفّق بِيَدَيْهِ [ He clapped with his hands; or clapped his hands ]: (O, Msb:) and النِّسَاآءُ يُصَفِّقْنَ عَلَى المَيِّتِ [ The women clap their hands in lamenting over the dead: thus they often do in the present day, over the corpse and over the grave]: (TA:) التَّصْفِيقُ is syn. with التَّصْفِيحُ: (As, O:) or (O) the former signifies the striking with the palm of one hand upon that of the other; (O, K;) but the latter is better expl. as the striking with the outer side of the right hand upon the inner side of the left hand. (O.) [See also 2 in art. صفح.] ― -b3- صفّق القِرْبَةَ, (M, TA,) inf. n. تصْفِيقٌ, (TA,) He poured water into the skin, (M, TA,) and shook it about, (TA,) the skin being new, so that the water came forth yellow. (M.) ― -b4- See also 1, latter half, in two places. ― -b5- صفّق الشَّرَابَ He mixed the wine, or beverage. (M.) ― -b6- And, (M,) inf. n. as above; (S, O, K;) and ↓ صَفَقَهُ, (M,) inf. n. صَفْقٌ; (K;) and ↓ اصفقهُ, (M,) inf. n. اـِصْفَاقٌ; (K;) He transferred the wine, or beverage, from one vessel to another, (S, M, O, K,) or from one jar to another, (As, TA,) it being mixed, (K,) in order that it might become clear. (M, K.) ― -b7- تَصْفِيقُ الاـِبِلِ means The removing of camels from a place which they have depastured to a place in which is pasture: (S, O, K: *) thus in the saying of the rájiz (Aboo-Mohammad El-Fak'asee, O) cited in the first paragraph of art. زل: (S, O:) or التَّصْفِيق in that instance, accord. to IAar, is from صفّق القَوْمُ فِى البِلَادِ The people, or party, went far in the country in search of pasture: (M:) [or] صفّق, said of a man, (Ibn- 'Abbád, O,) inf. n. as above, (K,) means He went away; and he went round about. (Ibn- 'Abbád, O, K.) ― -b8- And التَّصْفِيقُ signifies also The forming a determined intention or purpose, and then reversing it. (TA.)

Derived headwords

صَفَّقَverb
  1. 1.
التَّصْفِيقُ بِاليَدِ
صفّق بِيَدَيْهِ
النِّسَاآءُ يُصَفِّقْنَ عَلَى المَيِّتِ
صفّق القِرْبَةَ
صفّق الشَّرَابَ
تَصْفِيقُ الاـِبِلِ
صفّق القَوْمُ فِى البِلَادِ