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سخف
Root entry · 1 derived lemmaسُخْفٌ ذ (AA, JK, S, Mgh, Msb, K) and ↓ سَخْفٌ (JK, K) and ↓ سُخْفَةٌ and ↓ سَخَافَةٌ (K) Slenderness, shallowness, or weakness, of intellect, (AA, JK, S, Mgh, Msb, K,) &c.: (K:) or, as some say, a lightness [ of body ] incident to a man when he is hungry: [but it is not clearly shown whether this refer to all of the foregoing words or only to the last, or last two, of them: (see سَخْفَة, below:)] and some say that ↓ سُخْفَةٌ signifies weakness of intellect; or deficiency thereof: (TA:) or سُخْفٌ is in the intellect; and ↓ سَخَافَةٌ is [ thinness, &c., (see 1,)] in everything; (Kh, Msb, K, TA;) as, for instance, in clouds, and in a skin for water or milk, and in herbage, and in a garment, or piece of cloth, &c. (TA.)
Derived headwords
سُخْفٌ
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