What does Al-yafaaʿu mean?

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Discover the meaning of the term Al-yafaaʿu (يَفَاعُ) in Islamic vocabulary.

Definition Al-yafaaʿu

Al-yafaaʿu according to An-Nihaya (Ibn al-Athir)

What rises above everything; and the application of yafa' to people is rare.

Al-yafaaʿu according to Mu'jam al-Mustalahat al-Fiqhiyya

It is what rises above everything, being at the top of the earth, the mountain, the sand and other. (An-Nihaya, 4/299; al-Mu'jam al-Wasit, root yafa', 2/1109).

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