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اِنْتَصَفَ مِنْهُ He exacted, or obtained, his right, or due, from him (M, K) completely, so that each of them became on a par with the other; (K;) [i. e. with equity]. ― -b2- اِنْتَصَفَ It became halved: (Msb:) [often said of the daytime ( النَّهَارُ )].

طُبِخَ عَلَى النِّصْفِ , and أُصْلِحَ على النصف , It (wine) was boiled until half of it had gone, or evaporated. (TA, voce طَابَة .)

مَكَانٌ نَصَفٌ بَيْنَ مَكَانَيْنِ [A place half-way, midway, or equidistant, between two places]. (Mughnee in art. سَوَا=ءٌ .) ― -b2- نَصَفٌ A middle-aged woman or man: (S, K:) or forty-five years old: or fifty years old. (K.) Dim. نُصيف .

نَصِيفٌ A woman's muffler: see خِمَارٌ .

نُصَيْفٌ , dim. of نَصَفٌ : see خَلَيْقٌ voce خَلَقٌ .

مُنَصَّفٌ Expressed juice, (Mgh, Msb,) or wine, or beverage, (K,) cooked until half of it has gone [by evaporation]. (Mgh, Msb, K.)

مَنَاصَفٌ Not wholly ripe: [half-ripe:] applied to the date. (TA, voce بُسْرٌ .)

أَنْصاَفُ اللَّبِنِ [Half-bricks, or] cut bricks, whereof the one is placed, in building, beside the whole brick, for the purpose of ornamentation. (Msb in art. خرج .)