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▪ Accord. to ClassAr lexicographers, ḥāfiraẗ refers to the situation immediately after a deal, when the sold/bought animal is not to be removed until its price has been paid, i.e., when it is still ‘digging’, pawing the ground. From the expression ʕinda ’l-ḥāfir(aẗ) ‘lit., with [him/her] still digging/pawing’, is the meaning ‘on the spot, right away, at once’, still common today, and hence also ‘original state, initial condition’, attested as such already in the Qurʔān.

hist

▪ eC7 (original state, former condition) Q 79:10-11 yaqūlūna ʔa-ʔinnā la-mardūdūna fī ’l-ḥāfiraẗi? ʔa-ʔiḏā kunnā ʕiẓāman naḫiraẗan? ‘(Now) they are saying: What?, shall we brought back to the original state [life] / after we have turned into decayed bones?’

cogn

See ↗ḥafara, ↗√ḤFR.

disc

▪ See above, section CONC.

west

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deriv

ʕinda ’l-ḥāfiraẗ, adv., on the spot, right away, at once: see ʕalà ’l- ↗ḥāfir.
raǧaʕa ʔilà ḥāfiratih, expr., to revert to its original state or origin.

For other values of the root, cf. ↗ḥafara, ↗ḥafr, ↗ḥafraẗ gafraẗ, ↗ḥāfir, as well as, for the general picture, ↗√ḤFR.

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