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رشف

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

[ مِرْشَفٌ ذ An instrument with which one sucks in water &c. Its pl. مَرَاشِفُ is used in the present day as meaning The lips: thus in the phrase اِمْرَأَةٌ عَذْبَةُ المَرَاشِفِ A woman sweet in the lips; a sweet-lipped woman. ] [This art. is wanting in the copies of the L and TA to which I have had access.]

Derived headwords

مِرْشَفٌ
  1. 1.
اِمْرَأَةٌ عَذْبَةُ المَرَاشِفِ