Dictionary of The Holy Quran — Page 581
عفا عفر means of marriage, should keep themselves chaste )24:34( مِنَ التَّعَفْفِ : Because of abstaining from begging )2:274(. عَفَرَ ]aor. يَغْفِرُ inf. noun عَفَرَهُ [عَفْرٌ and عَفَّرَهُ : He defiled and soiled it with dust; he rolled him in the dust; he cast him on the ground; اعْتَفَرَهُ الْأَسَدُ : The lion sprang upon him, dragged him and cast him upon the ground. تَعَفْرَتَ : He acted like an عِفْرِيتٌ عِفْرِيتٌ : (applied to a man and a jinn): Wicked or malignant; crafty or cunning; abominable, foul; abounding in evil; strong or powerful; insolent and audacious in pride and in acts of rebellion or disobedience; one who rolls his adversary in dust; sharp, vigorous and effective in an affair, exceeding the ordinary bounds therein, with craftiness or cunning and wickedness or malignity( )27:40( اَسَدٌ عِفْرِيْتُ وَعِفْرِيَّةٌ : A strong, powerful, great lion. عَفَا ]aor. يَعْفُرْ inf. noun عَفَاءٌ and عُفُوٌّ and عَفْرٌ[ : It was or became effaced, erased or obliterated. It was or became apparent, thus this verb has two contrary significations. عَفَا اَثْرُهُ : He died or perished. عَفْرٌ also signifies the act of effacing or obliterating. عَفَتِ الرِّيْحُ أَثَرَ الْمَنْزِلِ : The wind obliterated the trace or vestige of the house. سَلُوا اللَّهَ الْعَفْوَ : Ask ye of Allah the effacement or the forgiveness of sins. خُذِ الْعَفْوَ : Take to forgiveness )7:200( وَاعْفُ عَنَّا : And Thou efface our sins or pardon us )2:287( الْعَفْرُ signifies the turning away )اَلصَّفْحُ( from the committer of a crime and relinquishing the punishment thereof. And الصَّفْحُ rather implies the relinquishing of the blame or reproof, and this is more than اَلْعَفْوُ for the latter is sometimes without the former. فَاعْفُ عَنْهُمْ وَاصْفَحْ : So pardon them and turn away from them (5:14). The primary signification of اَلْعَفْرُ )when transitive( is said to be "the purposing to take" a thing. Imam Raghib says that it is as though it meant I have purposed to remove or to take away thy crime or the like. عَفَا اللَّهُ عَنْكَ : Allah remove thy cores (9:43), or as is given above, Allah remove or completely obliterate the bad effects of your slip or error. عَزَّكَ وَأَصْلَحَكَ : May God set right thy affairs and honour thee. عَفَا also means 581