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الشحف

Root entry · 2 derived lemmas

This root pertains to the act of peeling or stripping off a layer, specifically the skin or a covering from something. It is noted as a term used in Yemeni dialect.

Derived headwords

الشَّحْفnoun
  1. 1.
    peeling of skinboth

    The act of stripping or peeling the skin off something.

شَحَفَverb
  1. 1.
    to peel off skinboth

    To strip or peel the skin or a covering from an object.

Parallel reading

الشَّحْفُ، كالْمَنْعِ: قِشْرُ الجِلْدِ عَنِ الشَّيْءِ، يَمَانِيَّةٌ.
The peeling, like the preventing: the skinning of the skin from the thing, it is Yemeni.