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afā`ī(fr. afā, q.v.), s.f. Clearness, transparency; perspicuity; cleanness, purity; conservancy; smoothness, evenness; openness, candour, good faith; freedom from guilt, innocence; settlement of an account, etc.), adjustment (of differences); destruction, ruin:—afā`ībatānā(-kī), To reject (a petition, etc.) without ceremony; to refuse flatly:—afā`īkarnā(-kī), To make clean, to cleanse, purify; to clear (one's character, etc.); to make clean work (of); to make a clean sweep (of), to sweep clean; to settle (an account,or a matter, etc.), to pay off, to adjust (a difference):—afā`ī-nāma, s.m. A deed of release, or of acquiescence (given by the defendant in a suit); a settlement, acquittance, discharge:—afā`īhonā(-kī), To be made clean; to be cleared; to be exonerated; to be settled, be adjusted; to be swept clean; to be shaved clean.
Origin: Persian