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Dictionary Habib Anthony Salmone, An Advanced Learner's Arabic-English Dictionary (1889)

Entry صدف

صَدَفَ(n. ac. صَدْف صُدُوْف) a. ['An], Turned away from, avoided. b. Turned away, caused to revert from. c. [ coll. ]. see III صَاْدَفَa. Met by chance, found, encountered. تَصَدَّفَa. see I (a)b. [ coll. ], Happened by chance befell. صُدْفَة a. [ coll. ], Meeting. صَدَف (pl. أَصْدَاْف) a. Shell; mother-of-pearl. b. High, lofty. c. see 94t; (pl. صَدَف), Shell; the concha or external ear. — صُدَف صُدُف Rocky defile, raving, gorge. N.Ac. صَاْدَفَ (صِدْف) a. Encounter, meeting; coincidence. صُدْفَةً بِالصُّدْفَة a. By chance, accidentally; casually.

Habib Anthony Salmoné was a British-educated scholar from Syria. The text for this dictionary was sourced from the Alpheos Project and originally provided by Tufts University under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.