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صفغ

Root entry · 4 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to the act of striking or hitting with the hand, often in a manner that causes something to be stuffed or filled. It also extends to the idea of filling or stuffing something, particularly the mouth.

Derived headwords

صَفَغَverb
  1. 1.
    to strike with the handboth

    To hit someone or something with the palm of the hand.

  2. 2.
    to stuffclassical

    To stuff or fill something, particularly the mouth.

صَفْغًاnoun
  1. 1.
    a strikingboth

    The act of striking with the hand.

  2. 2.
    stuffingclassical

    The act of stuffing or filling, especially the mouth.

أَصْفَغَverb
  1. 1.
    to stuff (someone's mouth)classical

    To cause someone's mouth to be stuffed or filled.

إِصْفَاغًاnoun
  1. 1.
    stuffing (of the mouth)classical

    The act of stuffing or filling someone's mouth.

Parallel reading

هو القمح باليد وقد صفغه صفغا.
It is the striking with the hand, and he struck him a striking.
وأصفغ غيره الشيء: أقمحه إياه
And he made something else to stuff it for him: he stuffed it into him.
وأصفغه فمه
And he stuffed his mouth.
دونك بوغاء تراب الرفغ فأصفغيه فاك أي صفغ أراد: أي إصفاغ، فلم يمكنه.
Here is the dust of the earth, so stuff your mouth with it, meaning any stuffing, but he could not.