सफाई saphāī

सफ़ाई safāī safa:i: (nf) cleanliness; purity; conservancy; defence (in a law suit); clarification; —पक्ष the defence (side); —देना to justify; to clarify; —से with exquisiteness; in a clean manner, cleanly; in a forthright manner.

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