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munḥarif (act. part. of اِنْحرف 'to be turned or altered (from); to turn aside (from),' etc., vii of حرف 'to turn (a thing, from),' etc.), part. adj. Turned, or altered (from); changed; inverted; turning or departing from allegiance, turning aside (from), disaffected;—crooked; oblique;—become disordered (as the temperament or constitution);—s.m. One who declines or turns (from), a rebel; an apostate; a renegade;—(in Geom.) a trapezium, a trapezoid:—munḥarif honāor ho-jānā(-se), To turn aside (from), to decline (from), to depart from the allegiance (of), to become disaffected, to revolt, to rebel (against); to cease (from,—as paying tribute, etc.).
Origin: Arabic