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ح ي ف

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Morphology · Lane's Lexicon · CC BY-SA 3.0

From Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon (1863–1893), under the root حيف. Digitised by the Perseus Project (Tufts); Arabic decoded from Perseus's transliteration.

حَافَ حاف حافي , aor. يَحِيفُ , (S, Msb,) inf. n. حَيْفٌ , (S, Msb, K,) He (a judge, or any other person, Msb) acted wrongfully, unjustly, injuriously, or tyrannically, (S, Msb, K,) عَلَيْهِ against him: (S:) or, as some say, he inclined [to that which was wrong], or declined [from that which was right], in his judgment. (TA.) حَيْفُ النَّاحِلِ means A man's giving to certain of his children exclusively of others: he should treat them equally, and not prefer some before others. (T, TA.)

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تَحْيِيفٌ تحييف The taking a thing, or something, from the side: and diminishing [from the side]. (KL.)

تَحَيَّفْتُهُ تحيف تحيفته تحيفتة I took by little and little from its sides; (S, K;) as also تحوّفتهُ . (S.)

حِيفَةٌ حيف حيفه حيفة A side, or lateral part: pl. حِيَفٌ ; (K;) which is likewise pl. of حَافَةٌ . (TA.) [See also حَايءِفٌ , below.]

حَايءِفٌ Acting wrongfully, unjustly, injuriously, or tyrannically: (Lth, Msb, K: [in some copies of the K, حَايءِرٌ is erroneously put for جَايءِرٌ :] pl. حَافَةٌ (Msb, K) and حُيَّفٌ (K, Msb *) and حُيُفٌ . (TA.) ― -b2- An arrow declining from the right direction. (TA.) ― -b3- And, as being likened thereto, (tropical:) An impotent man, who does not attain the object of his want. (TA.) -A2- The side of a mountain. (K, TA.) [See also حِيفَةٌ .]

بَلَدٌ أَحْيَفُ , and أَرْضٌ حَيْقَا=ءُ , A district or the like, and a land, upon which rain has not fallen: (Ibn-'Abbád, K:) as though the rain treated it wrongfully. (TA.)

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