حوفه doesn't appear in Hans Wehr's Modern Standard Arabic dictionary, but Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon has an entry for it. Select the entry below for the full classical Arabic definition.

• حوّفهُ Form 2

  2 حوّفهُ حوف حوفه حوفة , (K,) inf. n. تَحْوِيفٌ, (TA,) He put him, or it, on the حَافَة, (K, TA,) i. e., the side. (TA.) -b2- It (the [rain called] وَسْمِىّ) surrounded it; namely, a place; (K;) as though it took its حَا…

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