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غفر

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

أَغْفَرُ ذ [ Having the quality of covering, or the like, in a greater, or in the greatest, degree ]. One says اُصْبُغْ ثَوْبَكَ بالسَّوَادِ فَاـِنَّهُ أَغْفَرُ لِوَسَخِهِ Dye thou thy garment, or piece of cloth, with black; for it has the quality of bearing and concealing its dirt in the greatest degree. (S, * TA.)

Derived headwords

أَغْفَرُ
  1. 1.
اُصْبُغْ ثَوْبَكَ بالسَّوَادِ فَاـِنَّهُ أَغْفَرُ لِوَسَخِهِ