لفح

Core meaning

To strike head-on, by fire: the burn that hits the face.

Uses

1. تَلْفَحُ → "scorch" : the fire striking the face.

   • «تَلْفَحُ وُجُوهَهُمُ ٱلنَّارُ» — "the Fire will scorch their faces" (23:104)

Evidence from the text

The single use, 23:104, gives the verb its object: the face. The reach is not that of the whole body but of the face, and the same verse at once states what follows: "they will grimace therein, lips drawn back".

See also

كلح (to grimace, lips drawn back: what follows the burn, in the same verse)