لفأ1 لَفَأَ, aor. ـَ inf. n. لَفْءٌ and لَفَآءٌ; and ↓ التفأ; He stripped off, or peeled off, (K,) meat from a bone. (Az, S.) b2:  لَفَأَتِ الرِّيحُ السَّحَابَ عَنْ وَجْهِ السَّمَآءِ (assumed tropical:)  [The wind stripped off the clouds from the face of the sky]. (S.) b3:  لَفَأَ, inf. n. لَفْءٌ, He peeled a bone (TA) or a stick. (S.) b4:  لَفَأَ He beat (S, K) with a staff or stick. (S.) b5: He turned a person back, or away, from his purpose. (K.) b6:  لَفَأَ i. q. إِغْتَابَ; (assumed tropical:)  He traduced a person behind his back, or in his absence, but saying of him what was true. (K.) Thought to be tropical, from the same verb signifying “ he peeled. ” (TA.) A2:  لَفِىءَ, aor. ـَ He, or it remained, or endured. (K.) A3:  لَفَأَهُ حَقَّهُ He gave him the whole of what was due to him: (like لَكَأَهُ: T:) or لفأه signifies he gave him less than his due. (K.) Accord. to Aboo-Turab, the verb is used in these two contr. senses. (TA.) 4 الفأ He caused to remain, or endure. (K.) 8 إِلْتَفَاَ see 1.لَفَآءٌ Deficiency: (IAth:) رَضِيتُ مِنَ الوَفَآءِ بِاللَّفَآءِ [I was content with a deficiency instead of full payment]: from a trad. (TA.) b2: Less than what is just, or right. (K.) b3:  A little thing; a little. (K.) b4:  Dust; earth. (K.) b5: Small bits of rubbish on the ground. (TA.) لَفِيْئَةٌ A piece of meat stripped off, or peeled off, from a bone: (TA:) a piece of meat in which is no bone: (S:) pl. لَفِىْءٌ [but this is rather a coll. gen. n., or it is doubtful] and لَفَايَا. (TA.)