[1]
غَفَرَهُ , aor.
غَفِرَ , (K,) inf. n. غَفْرٌ, (S, Mgh, Msb,)
He covered, veiled, concealed, or hid, it; (S, Mgh,
Msb, K;) i. e., anything. (TA.) This is the
primary signification. (Mgh, Msb.) ―
2-b2- [Hence]
غَفَر الشَّيْبَ بِالخِضَابِ He covered, or concealed, the
white, or hoary, hair with dye; (K;) as also
↓ أَغْفَرَهُ. (TA.) ―
2-b3- And غَفَرَ المَتَاعَ, (S, K,) فِى
الوِعَآءِ, (K,) He put the goods, or utensils, into the
bag, or receptacle, and concealed them; (K;) as
also ↓ اغفرهُ. (K.) ―
2-b4- [Hence also] غَفَرَ لَهُ ذَنْبَهُ,
(S, Msb, * K,) aor.
غَفِرَ , (K,) inf. n. مَغْفَرِةٌ, (S, K,)
or this is a simple subst., (Msb,) and غُفْرَانٌ and
غَفْرٌ (S, Msb, K) and غُفُورٌ (Lh, K) and غَفِيرٌ and
غَفِيرةٌ, (K,) He (God) covered, his sin, crime, or
offence; (K;) forgave it; pardoned it; (Msb,
K;) as also اغتفر ↓ ذَنْبَهُ, (S,) or اغتفر لَهُ مَا صَنَعَ
he forgave him what he had done: (Msb:) or
غُفْرَانٌ and مَغْفِرَةٌ, on the part of God, signify the
preserving a man from being touched by punishment: and sometimes غَفَرَ لَهُ signifies [he forgave
him, or pardoned him: and also] he forgave him,
or pardoned him, apparently, but not really; and
thus it is used in the Kur xlv. 13, accord. to the
B. (TA.) As an ex. of the last of the inf. ns.
mentioned above on the authority of the K, the
following saying, of a certain Arab, is cited:
أَسْأَلُكَ الغَفِيرَهْ وَالنَّاقَةَ الغَزيِرَهْ وَالعِزَّ فِى العَشِيرَهْ فَإِنَّهَا
عَلَيْكَ يَسِيرَهْ [I beg of Thee (O God) forgiveness,
and a she-camel abounding in milk, and might
among the kinsfolk, or in the tribe, for they are
to Thee things easy]. (TA.) [See also the paragraph commencing with غَفِيرَةٌ.] ―
2-b5- In the following saying of Zuheyr, the verb is used tropically:
أَضَاعَتْ فَلَمْ تُغْفَرْ لَهَا غَفَلَاتُهَا
meaning [She lost her young one, and] her acts
of negligence with respect to her young one were
not forgiven her, by the wild beasts, so they ate
it. (TA.) ―
2-b6- ↓ غَفَرَ الأَمْرَ بِغُفْرَتِهِ, (S, * K,) and
↓ بِغَفِيرَتِهِ, (K,) aor.
غَفِرَ , (S,) [lit. He covered the
affair with its cover,] means (assumed tropical:) he rectified the
affair with that wherewith it was requisite that it
should be rectified. (S, K.) [And ↓ اغتفرهُ perhaps
signifies the same: see مُرْتَأَبٌ, in art. رأب.] ＝
1-A2-
غَفِرَ, aor.
غَفَرَ , (S, K,) inf. n. غَفَرٌ, (S,) It (a garment, or piece of cloth,) became villous; as also
↓ اغفارّ, (S, K,) inf. n. اِغْفِيرَارٌ. (S.) ＝
1-A3- غَفَرَ, (S, K,)
aor.
غَفِرَ , inf. n. غَفْرٌ, (S,) It (a wound) became recrudescent; or reverted to a bad, or corrupt, state;
(S, K;) as also غَفِرَ, [of which see another meaning in what follows,] aor.
غَفَرَ , inf. n. غَفَرٌ. (S.)
And in like manner the former is said of a sick
person: (S:) [i. e.] غَفَرَ signifies likewise He (a
sick person) relapsed into disease, after convalescence; as also غُفِرَ: (K, TA:) and in like manner
one says of a wounded person. (TA.) And
[hence, app.,] it is also said of an excessive lover,
meaning He experienced a return of his desire,
(K, TA,) after consolation. (TA.) ―
2-b2- غَفِرَ said
of a wound signifies also It healed: thus having
two contr. meanings. (IKtt, TA.) ＝
1-A4- غَفَرَ الجَلَبُ
السُّوقَ, (K, TA,) aor.
غَفِرَ , inf. n. غَفْرٌ, (TA,) means
رَخَّصَهَا [more correctly أَرْخَصَهَا i. e. The beasts, or
other things, brought thither for sale, made the
market cheap]. (K, TA.)