الصفح

Root entry · 22 derived lemmas

The root الصفح (al-ṣafḥ) primarily relates to the side, breadth, or expanse of something. It extends to concepts of turning away, forgiveness, and broadness in physical objects and abstract qualities. It also encompasses actions related to looking over, striking with the broad side, and offering sustenance.

Derived headwords

صَفْحnoun

1.
sideboth
The side of something, such as a mountain or a person's body.
2.
breadthboth
The width of something, like the face or a sword.
3.
expanseclassical
A broad or wide area.

صَفَاحnoun

1.
sidesboth
Plural of صفح, referring to the sides of things.
2.
broad stonesclassical
Wide and thin stones.
3.
broad swordsclassical
Swords that are wide.

صَفَحَverb

1.
to turn awayboth
To turn away from someone or something, to ignore.
2.
to forgiveboth
To pardon or overlook faults.
3.
to spread outclassical
To make something wide or broad.

أَعْرَضَverb

1.
to turn awayboth
To turn away and abandon.
2.
to ignoreboth
To disregard or pay no attention to.

عَفَاverb

1.
to forgiveboth
To pardon someone, especially for a transgression.
2.
to pardonboth
To excuse or remit a penalty.

صَفُوحadjective

1.
generousclassical
A generous person.
2.
forgivingboth
One who pardons or forgives.
3.
turning awayclassical
A woman who turns away, rejects, or estranges herself.

صَافِحparticiple

1.
strikingclassical
One who strikes with the broad side of a sword.
2.
giving drinkclassical
One who gives a drink to a beggar, regardless of what it is.
3.
making broadclassical
One who makes something wide.
4.
offering sustenanceclassical
One who offers drink or sustenance.

أَصْفَحَverb

1.
to give drinkclassical
To give a beggar any drink that is offered.

صَفَّحَverb

1.
to strikeclassical
To strike with the broad side of a sword.
2.
to make broadclassical
To make something wide.
3.
to present one by oneclassical
To present pages of a manuscript one by one.

تَصَفَّحَverb

1.
to look overboth
To examine or look through something carefully.
2.
to browseboth
To look through casually or at random.

صَفِيحnoun

1.
skyclassical
The sky.
2.
broad faceclassical
The broad face of anything.
3.
platemodern
A broad, flat piece of metal or stone.

مُصْفَحadjective

1.
broadboth
Wide or broad.
2.
broad-headedclassical
Having a broad head, with a prominent forehead and flattened temples.
3.
moderate noseclassical
Having a nose with a moderate bridge.
4.
easy-facedclassical
Having a pleasant and easy countenance.

صَفَائِحnoun

1.
skull bonesclassical
The bones of the skull.
2.
broad thin stonesclassical
Wide and thin stones.
3.
broad swordsclassical
Wide swords.

مِصْفَحnoun

1.
swordclassical
A sword, especially one with a broad blade.
2.
milk-containerclassical
A container for milk, specifically one that holds milk back.

تَصْفِيحnoun

1.
clappingclassical
The act of clapping hands.

صَفْحَةnoun

1.
pagemodern
A page of a book or manuscript.
2.
sideboth
The side or breadth of something.

مُصَافَحَةnoun

1.
shaking handsboth
The act of taking someone by the hand, a handshake.

تَصَافُحnoun

1.
handshakeboth
Mutual taking of hands, a handshake.

صَافِحَةparticiple

1.
having no milkclassical
A she-camel whose milk has dried up.

إِبْرَاهِيم الأَصْفَحname

1.
Ibrahim Al-Safahclassical
A person named Ibrahim known for his broadness or turning away.

أَصْفَحُهُverb

1.
to turn it overclassical
To turn something over or inside out.

مُصَافِحparticiple

1.
promiscuous manclassical
A man who has sexual relations with any woman, free or slave.

Parallel reading

الجَانِبُ

The side.

وَمِنَ الْجَبَلِ: مُضْطَجَعُهُ

And from the mountain: its resting place.

وَمِنْكَ: جَنْبُكَ

And from you: your side.

وَمِنَ الْوَجْهِ وَالسَّيْفِ: عَرْضُهُ

And from the face and the sword: its breadth.

وَيُضَمُّ، ج: صِفَاحٌ

And it is pronounced with damma, plural: ṣifāḥ.

وَرِجْلٌ مِنْ بَنِي كَلْبٍ

And a man from Banu Kalb.

وَكَمَنَعَ: أَعْرَضَ وَتَرَكَ

And like 'man'a': to turn away and leave.

وَ عَنْهُ: عَفَا

And from him: to forgive.

وَالْإِبِلُ عَلَى الْحَوْضِ: أَمَرَهَا عَلَيْهِ

And the camels at the watering trough: to bring them to it.

وَالسَّائِلَ: رَدَّهُ، كَأَصْفَحَهُ

And the beggar: to turn him away, like 'aṣfaḥahu'.

وَ بِالسَّيْفِ: ضَرَبَهُ مُصَفِّحًا، أَيْ: بِعَرْضِهِ

And with the sword: to strike him with its broad side, i.e., with its breadth.

وَ فُلَانًا: سَقَاهُ أَيَّ شَرَابٍ كَانَ

And so-and-so: to give him any drink that was.

وَ الشَّيْءَ: جَعَلَهُ عَرِيضًا، كَصَفَحَهُ

And the thing: to make it broad, like 'ṣafaḥahu'.

وَ الْقَوْمَ، وَوَرَقَ الْمُصْحَفِ: عَرْضَهَا وَاحِدًا وَاحِدًا

And the people, and the pages of the Quran: to present them one by one.

وَ فِي الْأَمْرِ: نَظَرَ، كَتَصَفُّحٍ

And in the matter: to look, like 'taṣaffuḥ'.

وَ النَّاقَةُ صَفُوحًا: ذَهَبَ لَبَنُهَا، فَهِيَ صَافِحٌ

And the she-camel is ṣafūḥan: her milk has gone, so she is ṣāfiḥan.

وَالْمُصَافَحَةُ: الْأَخْذُ بِالْيَدِ، كَالتَّصَافُحِ

And al-muṣāfaḥah: taking by the hand, like al-taṣāfuḥ.

وَالصَّفِيحُ: السَّمَاءُ، وَوَجْهُ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ عَرِيضٌ

And al-ṣafīḥ: the sky, and the broad face of everything.

وَالْمُصْفَحُ، كَمُكْرَمٍ: الْعَرِيضُ، وَيُشَدَّدُ

And al-muṣfaḥ, like mukram: the broad, and it is intensified.

وَالَّذِي اطْمَأَنَّ جَنْبًا رَأْسُهُ، وَنَتَأَ جَبِينُهُ، وَالْمُمَالُ، وَالْمَقْلُوبُ

And he whose head lies on his side, and whose forehead protrudes, and the sunken, and the inverted.

وَمِنَ الْأُنُوفِ: الْمُعْتَدِلُ الْقَصَبَةِ

And from the noses: the one with a moderate bridge.

وَمِنَ الرُّؤُوسِ: الْمَضْغُوطُ مِنْ قِبَلِ صُدْغَيْهِ حَتَّى طَالَ مَا بَيْنَ جَبْهَتِهِ وَقَفَاهُ

And from the heads: the one compressed at its temples until the distance between its forehead and nape is long.

وَمِنَ الْقُلُوبِ: مَا اجْتَمَعَ فِيهِ الْإِيمَانُ وَالنِّفَاقُ

And from the hearts: that in which faith and hypocrisy are combined.

وَالسَّادِسُ مِنْ سِهَامِ الْمَيْسِرِ

And the sixth of the arrows of chance.

وَمِنَ الْوُجُوهِ: السَّهْلُ الْحَسَنُ

And from the faces: the easy and handsome.

وَالصَّفُوحُ: الْكَرِيمُ، وَالْعَفْوُ، وَالْمَرْأَةُ الْمُعْرِضَةُ الصَّادَّةُ الْهَاجِرَةُ، كَأَنَّهَا لَا تَسْمَحُ إِلَّا بِصَفْحَتِهَا

And al-ṣafūḥ: the generous, and the forgiving, and the woman who turns away, rejects, and estranges, as if she only allows her side.

وَالصَّفَائِحُ: قَبَائِلُ الرَّأْسِ، وَع، وَمِنَ الْبَابِ: أَلْوَاحُهُ، وَالسُّيُوفُ الْعَرِيضَةُ، وَحِجَارَةٌ عِرَاضٌ رِقَاقٌ، كَ الصِّفَاحِ، كَرْمَانَ، وَهُوَ الْإِبِلُ الَّتِي عَظُمَتْ أَسْنِمَتُهَا، ج: صَفَاحَاتٌ وَصَفَافِيحُ، وَعٍ قُرْبَ ذِرْوَةٍ

And al-ṣafāʼiḥ: the tribes of the head, and 'ayn, and from the door: its planks, and the broad swords, and wide thin stones, like al-ṣifāḥ, Kermān, which is the camels whose humps have become large, plural: ṣafāḥāt and ṣafāfīḥ, and 'ayn near the peak.

وَالْمِصْفَحَةُ، كَمَعْظَمَةٍ: الْمِصْرَاةُ، وَالسَّيْفُ، وَيُكْسَرُ، ج: مِصْفَحَاتٌ

And al-miṣfaḥah, like maʻẓamah: the milk-holding vessel, and the sword, and it is broken, plural: miṣfaḥāt.

وَالتَّصْفِيحُ: التَّصْفِيقُ

And al-taṣfīḥ: clapping.

وَفِي جَبْهَتِهِ صَفْحٌ، مُحَرَّكَةٌ، أَيْ: عَرْضٌ فَاحِشٌ

And in his forehead is ṣafḥ, vocalized with harakah, meaning: excessive breadth.

وَمِنْهُ: إِبْرَاهِيمُ الْأَصْفَحُ مُؤَذِّنُ الْمَدِينَةِ

And from it: Ibrahim Al-Aṣfaḥ, the muezzin of the city.

وَالصَّفَاحُ، كَكِتَابٍ، وَيُكْرَهُ فِي الْخَيْلِ: شَبِيهٌ بِالْمَسْحَةِ فِي عَرْضِ الْخَدِّ، يُفْرِطُ بِهَا اتِّسَاعُهُ، وَجِبَالٌ تُخَاتِمُ نُعْمَانَ

And al-ṣafāḥ, like kitāb, and it is disliked for horses: similar to a mark on the breadth of the cheek, its wideness is excessive, and mountains bordering Nuʻmān.

وَأَصْفَحَهُ: قَلَبَهُ

And 'aṣfaḥahu': to turn it over.

وَالْمُصَافِحُ: مَنْ يَزْنِي بِكُلِّ امْرَأَةٍ، حُرَّةً أَوْ أَمَةً

And al-muṣāfiḥ: one who commits adultery with every woman, free or slave.