مث

1 مَثَّ, [aor. ـِ It (a bone) distilled, or let flow, the only matter that was in it: (TA:) [like نَثَّ]. b2: مَثَّ, (S, K, aor. ـَ inf. n. مَثٌّ, TA,) and ↓ مَثْمَثَ, (K,) or, as in some copies of the K, ↓ ثَمَثْمَثَ, (TA,) It (a نِحْى, or butterskin,) exuded [its butter: as also نَثَّ]. (S, K.) You do not say of it نَضَحَ. (S.) b3: يَمِثُّ مَثَّ الحَمِيتِ He sweats like the butter-skin. (TA, from a trad.) b4: مَثَّ, aor. ـِ He (a man) sweated by reason of fatness. (TA.) b5: جَاءَ يَمِثُّ He came in a fat state, and looking as though he were anointed. (TA.) b6: مَثَّ قَيْحًا وَدَمًا, aor. ـُ or aor. ـِ accord. to different readings of a phrase in the story of Abrahah; [It exuded matter and blood]: in the former case, the verb is trans.; in the latter, intrans.; and قيحا, in the latter case, is regarded as a specificative. (Suh.) b7: مَثَّ شَارِبَهُ, (aor.

مَثُ3َ, inf. n. مَثٌّ, ISd,) He put some grease upon his mustaches: (S, K:) or he greased his mustaches so that they glistened: (ISd:) or he wiped his mustaches with his hands, they having been greased, and left some remains, or traces, of grease visible upon them: (Az:) IDrd thinks مَثَّ and نَثَّ to be syn. (TA.) b8: مَثَّ الجُرْحَ, [aor. ـُ He removed the purulent matter from the wound: (Aboo-Turáb, K:) or he anointed the wound; as also نَثَّ. (Aboo-Turáb.) b9: مَثَّ, aor. ـُ (inf. n. مَثٌّ, TA,) He wiped his hand (or fingers, TA,) with a napkin, or with dry grass, (S,) or the like: (TA:) a dial. form of مَشَّ: (S:) or he wiped anything: (TA:) [as also نِثَّ.] R. Q. 1 مَثْمَثَ He saturated a wick with oil. (K.) b2: مَثْمَثَ, He immersed [a thing] in water. (K.) A2: مَثْمَثَ, (inf. n. مَثْمَثَةٌ, S, and مِثْمَاثٌ, S, K,) He mixed, or confounded. (S, K.) Yousay مثمث أَمْرَهُمْ He confounded their affair. (S.) b2: مَثْمَثَهُ He moved it, or shook it, about; (S, K;) like مَزْمَزَهُ: (As, S:) you say أَخَذَهُ فَمَثْمَثَهُ He took it, and moved it, or shook it, about, and went forwards and backwards with it. (S.) b3: A poet says, ثُمَّ اسْتَحَثَّ ذَرْعَهُ اسْتِحْثَاثَا نَكَفْتُ حَيْثُ مَثْمَثَ المِيْمَاثَا

i. e., I came upon his track: and [the case is, that] the viper makes its course confused: therefore the poet means, that he came upon (أَصَابَ) a confused track. (S, app. from As.) [It seems to me, that he is speaking of the track of a viper.] مِثْمَاثٌ, with kesreh, is the inf. n.; and مَثْمَاثٌ, with fet-hah, is the subst. (S, K.) [By the subst., is here meant the ideal subst., or abstract noun, (like زَلْزَالٌ and قَلْقَال, as dis-tinguished from زِلْزَالٌ and قِلْقَالٌ,) signifying Mixture, or confusion.]

A3: مَثْمَثُوا بِنَا, (K,) or مثمثوا بنا سَاعَةً, and ↓ تَمَثْمَثُوا, (TA,) i. q. لَثْلِثُوا. (K.) R. Q. 2 see 1 and R. Q. 1.

نَبْتٌ مَثَّاثٌ A moist plant. (TA.) مَثْمَاثٌ: see R. Q. 1.

ذر

1 ذَرَّ, (T, S, M, A, &c.,) aor. ـُ (S, M, Msb,) inf. n. ذَرٌّ, (S, M, K, &c.,) He sprinkled, or scattered, salt (T, * S, A, Msb, K) upon flesh-meat, and pepper upon a mess of crumbled bread with broth, (A,) and a medicament (S, A) into the eye, (A,) and grain (S, A, K) upon the ground, (A,) &c.; (T, Msb, K;) as also ↓ ذَرْذَرَ, inf. n. ذَرْذَرَةٌ: (K:) he took a thing with the ends of his fingers and sprinkled it upon a thing. (M.) You say, ذَرَّ عَيْنَهُ, (TA,) and ذَرَّ عَيْنَهُ بِالذَّرُورِ, aor. ـُ (M, TA,) inf. n. ذَرٌّ, (K, TA,) He put the medicament called ذَرُور into his eye. (M, * K, * TA.) b2: Also, (A,) inf. n. as above, (K,) He spread. (A, K.) You say, ذَرَّ اللّٰهُ عِبَادَهُ فِى الأَرْضِ (tropical:) God spread his servants, or mankind, upon the earth. (M, * A.) Whence the word ذُرِّيَّةٌ. (M, TA.) b3: And ذَرَّتِ الأَرْضُ النَّبْتَ The ground put forth the plant, or plants. (K.) A2: ذَرَّ, (T, S, M, K, &c.,) aor. ـُ [contr. to analogy,] (T, M,) inf. n. ذُرُورٌ, (M,) It (a herb, or leguminous plant,) came up, or forth, (IAar, Az, T, S, K,) from the ground: (Az, S:) or it (a herb, or leguminous plant, and a horn,) began to come forth; put forth the smallest portion of itself. (A.) b2: ذَرَّتِ الشَّمْسُ, (T, S, M, K,) aor. ـُ inf. n. ذُرُورٌ, (S, M,) (tropical:) The sun rose; (S, M, K;) and appeared: (M:) or began to rise: شُرُوقُهَا is when its light first falls upon the earth and trees: (T, TA:) and ذَرَّ قَرْنُ الشَّمْس, aor. and inf. n. as above, (assumed tropical:) The upper limb of the sun rose: (Msb:) or began to rise. (A, TA.) A3: ذَرَّ is also syn. with تَخَدَّدَ [app. as meaning His flesh became contracted, shrunk, or wrinkled]. (K.) A4: Also, (T, K,) aor. ـَ contr. to analogy, (K,) unless ذَرَّ be for ذَرِرَ, (MF,) said of a man, The fore part of his head became white, or hoary. (T, K.) 3 ذَارَّتْ, (aor. ـَ S,) inf. n. مُذَارَّةٌ and ذِرَارٌ, She (a camel) became evil in her disposition. (Fr, S, K.) Hence the saying of Hoteiäh, satirizing Ez-Zibrikán, and praising the family of Shemmás Ibn-Láy, وَكُنْتَ كَذَاتِ البَوِّ ذَارَتْ بِأَنْفِهَا فَمِنْ ذَاكَ تَبْغِى بُعْدَهُ وَتُهَاجِرُهْ i. e. [And thou wast like her who has a stuffed skin of a young camel made for her and placed near her that she may incline to it and yield her milk,] that has inclined to the young one of another; [and on that account desires its distance from her, and severs herself from it:] in the S we find, for البَوِّ, البَعْلِ; and for بُعْدَهُ, غَيْرَهُ; but the former are the correct readings: ذَارَتْ is a contraction of ذَارَّتْ: or, accord. to some, it is for ذَآءَرَتْ: see art. ذأر. (IB and TA.) b2: One says also, فِى فُلَانٍ ذِرَارٌ, meaning (assumed tropical:) In such a one is aversion, arising from anger, like that of a she-camel: (Az, S:) or anger and aversion (Th, M, K, TA) and disapprobation. (Th, TA) R. Q. 1 ذَرْذَرَ: see 1, first sentence.

ذَرٌّ The young ones [or grubs] of ants: (M, A, Msb, K:) accord. to Th, (M, TA,) one hundred of them weigh one barley-corn: (M, K:) or, accord. to En-Neysábooree, [who perhaps held ذَرٌّ to signify ant's eggs,] seventy of them weigh a gnat's wing, and seventy gnat's wings weigh one grain: (MF:) or the smallest of ants: (S:) or small red ants: (TA:) or it signifies, (TA,) or signifies also, (A,) the motes that are seen in a ray of the sun that enters through an aperture: (A, * TA:) as though they were particles of a thing sprinkled: and in like manner ذَرَّاتُ الذَّهَبِ [minute particles of gold]: (A:) the sing., (S,) or [rather] n. un., (Msb, K,) is ذَرَّةٌ, (S, M, Msb, K,) [of which the pl. is ذَرَّاتٌ.] [See an ex., from the Kur x. 62, voce مِثْقَالٌ.] b2: See also ذُرِّيَّةٌ.

ذَرُورٌ A thing sprinkled: (M:) a dry medicament, (T, TA,) such as is sprinkled in the eye, (T, A, K,) and upon a wound, or sore: (T, TA:) or a kind of إِثْمِد [q. v.]. [Har p. 86.) b2: See also ذَرِيرَةٌ.

ذُرَارَةٌ What falls about, (M, A, K,) of perfume, when one sprinkles it, (A,) or of ذَرُور, (K, TA,) or of what is sprinkled. (M, and so accord. to the CK.) ذَرِيرَةٌ (S, A, Msb, K) and ↓ ذَرُورٌ (S, Msb, K) A kind of perfume, (Msb, K,) the particles of the قَصَبُ الطِّيبِ [or calamus aromaticus, also called قَصَبُ الذَّرِيرَةِ, q. v., in art. قصب], (T, M, A, Msb,) which is brought from India, (A, Msb,) and resembles the reeds of which arrows are made: (T, A, Msb:) its internodal portions are filled with a white substance like spiders' webs; and when powdered, it is a perfume, inclining to yellowness and whiteness: (Sgh, Msb:) or, as some say, it is a mixed kind of perfume: (TA:) [but this, if correct, seems to be a second application:] pl. of the latter, أَذِرَّةٌ. (S, K.) ذَرِّىٌّ a rel. n. from ذَرٌّ, (T,) (tropical:) The diversified wavy marks, streaks, or grain, of a sword: (T, M, A, K:) likened to the track of young ants. (M, A.) It occurs in poetry, in which some read دُرِّىٌّ [q. v.]. (M.) b2: And (assumed tropical:) A sword having much of such wavy marks, &c. (K.) ذُرِّيَّةٌ, (S, Msb, K,) the most chaste form, (Msb,) and ذِرِّيَّةٌ, (Msb, K,) and ذَرِيَّةٌ, this last without a sheddeh to the ر (Msb,) [respecting the derivation of which see art. ذرأ,] (assumed tropical:) Children, or offspring, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) as also ↓ ذَرٌّ, (Msb,) of a man, (S, K,) [and of genii: see art. ذرأ,] male or female: (IAth:) little ones, or young ones. (Mgh, Msb.) b2: Also (tropical:) Progenitors, or ancestors. (Msb, MF.) b3: Also (assumed tropical:) Women. (Mgh, K.) b4: Used in a sing. as well as a pl. sense. (Mgh, Msb, K.) b5: Pl. ذُرِّيَّاتٌ and (sometimes, Msb) ذَرَارِىُّ. (S, Msb, K.) [In the CK, the latter pl., with the article, is written الذَّرَارِى, without a sheddeh to the ى. b6: For examples, see art. ذرأ.]

مِذَرَّةٌ An instrument with which grain is scattered. (K.) مُذَارٌّ A she-camel evil in disposition. (Fr, S, K.) [See 3.]

سلو

1 سَلَا عَنْهُ, (S, M, Msb, K,) first Pers\. سَلَوْتُ, (S, Msb,) aor. ـْ (Msb, K,) and يَسْلَا also, [or يَسْلَى,] though neither the second nor the third radical is a faucial letter; (Ham p. 568;) and سَلَاهُ, (M, K,) aor. ـْ (K;) and سَلِىَ عَنْهُ, first Pers\. سَليتُ, (S, Msb,) aor. ـْ (Msb;) or ـِ (M, K,) aor. ـْ (K;) and سَلَاهُ, first Pers\. سَلَيْتُهُ, aor. ـْ (TA in art. سلى, on the authority of Esh-Shereeshee;) inf. n. سُلُوٌّ, (S, M, Msb, K,) of the first, (S, Msb, TA,) and سَلْوٌ, (M, K,) [app. of the second,] and سُلْوَانٌ, (M, MA, K,) of the first, as also سَلْوَةٌ, (MA,) or this last is a simple subst., (M, * Msb, K,) and سُلِىٌّ, (S, M, MA, K,) of the third, (S,) or of the first, (MA,) and سِلِىٌّ [with kesr substituted for damm because of the kesr of the medial radical]; (M, TA;) He was, or became, forgetful, unmindful, or neglectful, (M, K, TA,) or diverted from the remembrance, (TA,) of him, or it: (M, K, TA:) he endured with patience the loss, or want, of him, or it: (Msb:) he was, or became, content, or happy, without him, or it: (PS:) [or he experienced comfort, or consolation, for the loss, or want, of him, or it:] accord to Az, السُّلُوُّ [or rather سُلُوُّ الإِلْفِ عَنِ الأِلَفِ] signifies the familiar's being content, or happy, without the familiar: (Msb:) or السُّلُوُّ [or السُّلُوُّ عَنْ شَىْءٍ] signifies the being content, or happy, without a thing. (Ham p. 403.) One says also, سَلَا عَنِ الحُبِّ, meaning He was or became, free from love, or affection. (MA.) [And سَلَا عَنِ الهَمِّ He was, or became, free from anxiety. See also 5.] b2: Also مَا سَلِيتُ أَنْ أَقُولَ ذَاكَ, meaning I did not forget, but neglected, to say that: and one does not say سَلِيتُ أَنْ أَقُولَهُ except as meaning مَا سَلِيتُ أَنْ أَقُولَهُ. (Az, TA.) 2 سَلّاهُ عَنْهُ, (M, TA, *) inf. n. تَسْلِيَةٌ; (TA;) and عَنْهُ ↓ اسلاهُ; (M, K;) He, or it, made him, or rendered him, forgetful, unmindful, or neglectful, (M, K, TA,) or made him to be diverted from the remembrance, (TA,) of him, or it: (M, K, TA:) [made him to endure with patience the loss, or want, of him, or it: made him to be content, or happy, without him, or it: or comforted him, or consoled him, for the loss, or want, of him or it: see 1, first sentence:] and the former verb occurs, in a verse of Aboo-Dhu-eyb, followed by an accus. as a second objective complement, in the place of a gen. preceded by عَنْ. (M, TA.) And one says also, سَلَّانِى مِنْ هَمِّى, inf.n. as above; and ↓ أَسْلَانِى; meaning [He freed me from my anxiety; or] he removed from me my anxiety. (S.) And سلّاهُ [alone] He, or it, [made him to be content, or happy; comforted, or consoled, him; or] freed him from grief [or anxiety]. (MA.) 4 أَسْلَوَ see 2, in two places.

A2: Also اسلى القَوْمُ The people, or party, were, or became, secure, or safe, from the beast of prey. (K.) 5 تسلّى عَنْهُ quasi-pass. of سَلَّاهُ عَنْهُ (M) or of أَسْلَاهُ عَنْهُ (M, K) [and therefore signifying He was made, or rendered, forgetful, unmindful, or neglectful, or was made to be diverted from the remembrance, of him, or it: was made to endure with patience the loss, or want, of him, or it: was made to be content, or happy, without him, or it: or was comforted, or consoled, for the loss, or want, of him, or it]: or تسلّى signifies تَكَلَّفَ السُّلْوَانَ [he affected the being forgetful, &c., of a person, or thing]: (Ham p. 403:) [he made himself content, or happy: comforted, or consoled, himself: diverted, or amused, himself: and, like سَلَا, (with which it is said in the Ham p. 572 to be syn.,) or nearly so,] he became free from, or he relinquished, anxiety. (MA.) See also what next follows.7 انسلى عَنْهُ الهَمُّ Anxiety became removed, or cleared away, from him; as also ↓ تسلّى. (S.) 8 إِسْتَلَوَ see art. سلى.

سَلًا or سَلًى: see art. سلى.

سَلْوَةٌ, (M, Msb, K,) as also ↓ سُلْوَةٌ, (M, K,) a subst. from سَلَا عَنْهُ (M, Msb, K) [as such signifying A state of forgetfulness, unmindfulness, or neglectfulness, or of diversion from remembrance, of a person or thing: patient endurance of a loss or want: content, or happiness, in a case of privation: or comfort, or consolation, for a loss or want: accord. to the MA, the former is an inf. n.]. One says, سَقَيْتَنِى مِنْكَ سَلْوَةً and ↓ سُلْوَانًا Thou hast made me content, or happy, [or hast infused into me content, or happiness,] without thee [or in thine absence]. (As, S.) and هُوَ فِى سَلْوَةٍ مِنَ العَيْشِ He is in a state of life ample in its means or circumstances, unstraitened, or plentiful, and pleasant. (Az, S.) سُلْوَةٌ: see the next preceding paragraph.

سَلْوَى [accord. to those who make the alif to be a sign of the fem. gender] or سَلْوًى [accord. to those who make that letter to be one of quasicoordination] A certain bird, (S, M, Msb, K,) [in the present day applied to the quail,] i. q. سُمَانَى [which is also applied in the present day to the quail], (Ksh and Bd and Jel in ii. 54,) [or] white [?], resembling the سُمَانَى, (M,) or like the pigeon, but longer in the shank and neck than the latter, and of a colour resembling that of the سُمَانَى, quick in motion: accord. to Akh, the word is used as sing. and pl.: (Msb:) [or] Akh says, I have not heard any sing. thereof, and it seems that the single one is thus called like the pl. number, in like manner as دفْلَى is [said to be] applied to one and to the pl. number: (S:) or the n. un. is سَلْوَاةٌ; (M, K;) of which Lth cites as an ex. this saying, [in which بَلَّلَهُ should be بَلَّلَهَا,] كَمَا انْتَفَضَ السَّلْوَاةُ بَلَّلَهُ القَطْرُ [Like as shakes the selwáh which the rain has much wetted]. (TA.) A2: Also Honey; (S, M, K;) and so ↓ سُلْوَانَةٌ, with damm: (K:) the former is used in this sense by a poet, (S, M,) namely, Khálid Ibn-Zuheyr; and Zj says that Khálid has made a mistake, the word سلوى signifying only a certain bird; but, accord. to AAF, (M,) b2: السَّلْوَى signifies [also] Whatever renders thee forgetful, or content, or happy, in a case of privation; (كُلُّ مَا سَلَّاكَ, M, K;) and honey is thus called because it renders thee thus by its sweetness. (M.) سُلْوَانٌ A water which is drunk and which renders one forgetful, or content, or happy, in a case of privation; or comforts, or consoles, for a loss or want: (Lh, M, K:) or a thing that is given to drink to the passionate lover in order that he may be forgetful, or content, or happy, without the woman: (Lh, M:) or it consists in one's taking some of the dust, or earth, of a grave, and sprinkling it upon water, and giving it to drink to the passionate lover, (M, K, *) whereupon his love dies: (K:) or rain-water poured upon a certain bead (خَرَزَةٌ) called ↓ سُلْوَانَةٌ, of which they used to say that when the passionate lover drank this water he became forgetful, or content, or happy, in his privation: (S:) or a certain medicine which is given to drink to him who is in grief and in consequence of which he becomes happy; (S, K;) called by the physicians مُفَرِّحٌ: (S:) or a certain bead (خَرَزَةٌ) for captivating, or fascinating, also called ↓ سُلْوَانَةٌ, (Lh, M, K,) and ↓ سَلْوَانَةٌ, (Sgh, K,) with which women captivate, or fascinate, men, restraining them from other women: (Lh, M:) or ↓ سُلْوَانَةٌ signifies [or, accord. to the K, signifies also] a certain bead (خَرَزَةٌ, M, K,) transparent, (M,) which, when one has buried it in the sand and then scraped the sand up from over it, is seen to be black, and is given [in water] to drink to a man, and renders him forgetful, or content, or happy, in a case of privation: (M, K: *) or a pebble upon which water is poured and given to drink to a man, who thereupon becomes forgetful, or content, or happy, in a case of privation: (M:) Ru-beh says, لَوْ أَشْرَبُ السُّلْوَانَ مَا سَلِيتُ مَابِى غِنًى عَنْكِ وَإِنْ غَنِيتُ (S, M, *) and Nuseyr Ibn-Abee-Nuseyr, in answer to a question of As respecting the meaning of السلوان, said that it is a bead (خَرَزَةٌ) which is bruised, or pulverized, [and upon which water is then poured,] the water of which occasions in the drinker thereof forgetfulness, or content, or happiness, in a case of privation: but As disallowed this, and said that it is an inf. n. of سَلَوْتُ, and that the meaning is لَوْ أَشْرَبُ السُّلُوَّ [i. e. (assumed tropical:) Were I made to drink forgetfulness, &c., I should not become forgetful, &c.: there is not in me freedom from want of thee, though I be free from want of others]. (TA.) See also سَلْوَةٌ.

سَلْوَانَةٌ: see the next preceding paragraph.

سُلْوَانَةٌ: see سَلْوَى: b2: and see also سُلْوَانٌ, in three places.

سُلَّى, [said to be] like رُبَّى, [but it may be سُلًّى, as there is no apparent cause for its being imperfectly decl.,] A quality that renders forgetful of the objects of love or affection, or that renders content, or happy, without them. (TA in art. سلى.) سَالٍ [act. part. n. of 1: as such often signifying] Having his heart free from love, or affection. (Har p. 41.) مُسْلَاةٌ [a noun of the class of مُبْخَلَةٌ and مَجْبَنَةٌ

&c., originally مَسْلَوَةٌ]. One says, فِيهِ مَسْلَاةٌ عَنِ الكُرَبِ [In him is a cause of forgetfulness of, or freedom from, anxieties]: like مُعْلَاةٌ [in form]. (TA.) المُسَلِّى The third [in arriving at the goal] of the ten horses that are started together for a race: so called because he renders his owner content, or happy (يُسَلِّيهِ). (Ham p. 46.) مُتَسَلًّى [a noun of place from 5]. One says, مَاعَنْهُ مُتَسَلًّى [There is not any place in which one may be rendered forgetful, &c., of him, or it; or in which one may be rendered content, or happy, without him, or it]. (TA.)

سف

1 سَفَّ, (A'Obeyd, Az, S, M, K,) aor. ـُ inf. n. سَفُّ; (S, TA;) and ↓ اسفّ, (A'Obeyd, S, M, K,) inf. n. إِسْفَافٌ; (TA;) He wove (A'Obeyd, Az, S, M, Z, K) with his fingers (Z, TA) [or plaited] a mat, (A'Obeyd, TA,) or palm-leaves, (Az, S, M, K,) and any other thing that may be woven with the fingers; (TA;) like رَمَلَ and أَرْمَلَ. (A'Obeyd, TA.) A2: سَفَّ (Lth, O, K) عَلَى وَجْهِ الأرْضِ, (Lth, O,) [aor. ـُ accord. to the TK, but more probably سَفِّ, agreeably with a general rule relating to intrans. verbs of this class,] inf. n. سَفِيفٌ, He (a bird) went along upon the surface of the earth. (Lth, O, K.) [See also 4.]

A3: سَفِفْتُ, (S, M, Mgh, * Msb, K,) third Pers\. سَفَّ, (Mgh,) aor. ـَ (Msb, TA,) inf. n. سَفٌّ; (M, Msb, K;) and ↓ اِسْتَفَفْتُ; (S, M, Msb, K; [in one of my copies of the S, erroneously, أَسْفَفْتُ;]) I took [into my mouth], (S, K,) or ate, (Mgh, Msb,) medicine, (S, M, Mgh, Msb, K,) and meal of parched barley or wheat, (S, M, Mgh,) and the like of either of these, (M,) or anything dry, (Mgh, Msb,) not moistened, (S, Msb, K,) and not kneaded [with water &c.]; (S;) or i. q. قَمِحْتُ, (M, K, TA,) which signifies as above, (TA,) or I took it in the palm of my hand, (A and L in art. قمح,) and conveyed it to my mouth, (A in that art.,) or licked it up: (L in that art.:) and ↓ سَفَّةٌ signifies the doing thus once. (TA.) And [hence,] سَفٌّ signifies also Camels' eating dry herbage. (K.) Hence the saying of 'Amr Ibn-Kulthoom, تَسَفُّ الجِلَّةُ الخُورُ الدَّرِينَا The she-camels advanced in age, abounding with milk, eating the [dry and] old and wasted herbage. (Mgh. [See EM p. 208: and the same, p. 224.]) Hence also the phrase, لَأَنْ أَسَفَّ التُّرَابَ Assuredly that I should eat the dust. (Mgh.) b2: And سَفِفْتُ المَآءَ, (M, K,) aor. ـَ inf. n. سَفٌّ, (TA,) I drank much of the water without satisfying my thirst: (M, K:) and so سَفِتُّهُ, aor. ـْ inf. n. سَفْتٌ. (TA.) b3: سُفَّ الرَّمَادُ فِى وَجْهِهِ: see 4.4 اسفّ: see 1, first sentence. b2: [Hence,] أَسْفَفْتُ الشَّىْءَ, inf. n. إِسْفَافٌ, I stuck one part of the thing to another. (Yz, TA.) b3: [And from the same signification, as is indicated in the O and TA,] اسّف النَّظَرَ (tropical:) He looked sharply, (S, M, A, O, K,) and hardly, (S, O,) and minutely, (A,) towards, or at, (إِلَى,) a person, (S, A, O,) and an affair, (A,) and AAF adds, and inclined towards the ground. (M.) A2: Also He fed a camel with dry herbage. (K.) b2: [Hence,] اسفّ الفَرَسَ اللِجَامَ (assumed tropical:) He put the bit into the mouth of the horse. (Moheet, L, K.) b3: And اسفّ الدَّوَآءَ (assumed tropical:) He stuffed the wound with the medicament: (M:) or اسفّ الجُرْحَ دَوَآءً (tropical:) he put a medicament into the wound; (K, TA;) as though he put سَفُوف to it. (TA.) b4: And اسفّ الوَشْمَ نَؤُورًا (assumed tropical:) He filled in the tattoo with نؤور [i. e. smoke-black of fat]. (M.) b5: And أُسِفَّ وَجْهُهُ النَّؤُورَ (assumed tropical:) His face was sprinkled with نؤور. (S.) It is said in a trad., فَكَأَنَّمَا أُسِفَّ وَجْهُهُ, meaning (assumed tropical:) His face was altered, (S, K, *) as though something that altered it had been sprinkled upon it. (S.) You say also, كَأَنَّ وَجْهَهُ أُسِفَّ رَمَادًا, meaning (assumed tropical:) His face became of a blackish, or an ashy, hue, altered, as though ashes had been sprinkled upon it: and ↓ سُفَّ الرَّمَادُ فِى وَجْهِهِ (assumed tropical:) [Ashes were sprinkled upon his face], meaning his face became altered. (Har p. 626.) A3: Also It approached the earth, or ground; (S, M, K;) said of a bird in its flight; (S, K;) or of a bird &c.: (M:) or it (a bird) flew over the ground so near that its feet almost reached it. (A.) And اسفّت السَّحَابَةُ The cloud approached the earth. (S, K.) b2: Said of a stallion, He stooped his head to bite. (M, K.) and one says of man, اسفّ مِنَ الأَرْضِ [and إِلَى الارض He stooped towards the ground]. (O in art. شب.) b3: And, said of a man, (S,) (assumed tropical:) He pursued small, or little, things: (S, K:) and (assumed tropical:) he followed after low, or mean, things: (K:) [(assumed tropical:) he stooped to such things:] or اسفّ إِلَى مَدَاقِ الأُمُورِ وَ أَلَائِمِهَا (assumed tropical:) He approached [or pursued] small, or little, things, and the meanest, or most ignoble, thereof; or became mean, or ignoble: (M, * TA:) and اسفّ لِلْأَمْرِ الدَّنِىّ, [or correctly الدَّنِىْءِ,] and إِلَيْهِ, (assumed tropical:) He approached [the thing that was near, or that was low, or mean]; from اسفّ said of a bird in its flight, meaning It approached the ground so that its feet almost touched it. (Har p. 206.) [Hence the saying,] تَحَفَّظْ مِنْ الغَمَلِ السَّفْسَافِ وَلَاتُسِفَّ لَهُ بَعْضَ لإِسْفَافِ (tropical:) [Guard thyself from the bad action, and approach it not with any degree of approaching]. (TA.) b4: You say also, مَاأَسَفَّ مِنْهُ بِتَافِهٍ He obtained not [from him, or of it, a paltry acquisition], (K, TA,) [or] anything. (TA.) b5: And اسفّ He fled from his companion, (K, TA,) running most vehemently. (TA.) 8 إِسْتَفَ3َ see 1.

R. Q. 1 سَفْسَفَ, (K,) inf. n. سَفْسَفَةٌ, (S, M,) He cleared, or sifted, (اِنْتَخَلَ,) flour, (S, M, K,) and the like, (S, K,) with the مُنْخُل [or sieve], and the like. (L, TA.) One says, سَمِعْتُ سَفْسَفَةَ المُنْخُلِ [I heard the sifting of the sieve]. (TA.) b2: And سَفْسَفَ عَمَلَهُ (tropical:) He did his deed imperfectly, or not soundly. (IDrd, M, K, TA.) b3: And سَفْسَفَتِ الرِيحُ The wind raised the fine dust, blowing a little above the surface of the earth. (TA.) R. Q. 2 لَا تَزَالُ تَتَسَفْسَفُ فِى هٰذَا الأَمْرِ a phrase mentioned by Ibn-'Abbád as meaning Thou wilt not cease to destroy, or bring to nought, this thing, or affair. (O, TA.) سَفْ, with the ف quiescent, i. q. سَوْفَ; as in the phrase سَفْ تَفْعَلُ [Thou wilt do such a thing]: mentioned by Th. (M. [See art. سوف; and see also the letter س.]) سَفٌّ, accord. to the K, or ↓ سِفٌّ, with kesr, accord. to Sgh, [in the O,] (TA,) A spadix, or a spathe, (طَلْعَة) of a male palm-tree. (AA, O, K) b2: See also سِفُّ.

سُفٌّ: see what next follows.

سِفٌّ and ↓ سُفٌّ, (O, K,) or the former and ↓ سَفٌّ, (so in a copy of the M,) The serpent called أَرْقَم: (AA, O, K:) or the serpent that flies (M, O, K) in the air: (M, O:) and sometimes peculiarly applied to the أَرْقَم: (M:) or the male serpent. (O.) And the Hudhalee poet EdDákhil Ibn-Harám uses the first of these words as meaning (assumed tropical:) A man like a سِفّ. (M.) b2: See also سَفٌّ.

سَفَّةٌ [an inf. n. un.]: see 1.

سُفَّةٌ A plait of palm-leaves, (M, K, TA,) i. e. a ↓ سَفِيفَة, (TA,) made according to the measure of the زَبِيل or the جُلَّة [of which it is to form a part]. (K, TA.) b2: And A thing of the kind termed قَرَامِلُ [pl. of قِرْمِلٌ], (K, TA,) [i. e. a plait] of [goat's] hair, or of wool, (TA,) which a woman attaches to her [plaits of] hair: it was not disapproved by Ibráheem En-Nakha'ee; (K, TA;) though he disapproved of other things attached to the hair: IAth explains it as a thing that a woman puts upon her head, and attaches to her hair in order that it may be lengthened [thereby]. (TA.) A2: A small portion, (حَبَّةٌ,) and (S) a handful, (S, K,) of meal of parched barley or wheat, (S,) or of wheat, and the like. (K.) b2: See also what next follows.

سَفُوفٌ Medicine, (S, M, Msb, K,) and meal of parched barley or wheat, (S, M,) and the like of either of these, (M,) or anything dry, (Msb,) taken [into the mouth], (S, M, * K,) or eaten, (Msb,) not moistened, (S, M, * Msb, K,) or not kneaded [with water &c.]; (S;) and ↓ سُفَّةٌ signifies the same; (M, K;) each a subst. from سَفِفْتُ السَّوِيقَ and الدَّوَآءَ &c. (M.) A2: Also Blackness of the gum. (M, TA.) سَفِيفٌ Woven [with the fingers, or plaited,] of palm-leaves. (KL.) b2: [And hence,] The girth of the رَحْل [or camel's saddle], (S, M, K,) and of the [women's vehicle called] هَوْدَج: (M:) the fore-girth of the رَحْل; because made broad, like the سَفِيف of palm-leaves. (T, TA.) [See also the next paragraph.]

A2: A certain plant. (IDrd, K.) A3: The sharpness of the ears of the wolf. (M, TA.) A4: And السَّفِيفُ is A name of Iblees: (O, K:) so says AA: (O:) in one or more of the copies of the “ Nawádir,” ↓ السَّفْسَفُ. (TA.) سَفِيفَةٌ A thing woven [with the fingers, or plaited,] of palm-leaves: (S, O:) a piece of woven [or plaited] work of palm-leaves (K voce عَرَقٌ) &c.: (TA ibid.:) pl. سَفَائِفُ. (TA.) See سُفَّةٌ, first sentence. b2: A wide belly-girth with which a رَحْل [or camel's saddle] is bound, or fastened. (M.) [See also سَفِيفٌ.] b3: The appertenance [or suspensory] of a water-skin (قِرْبَة), which the carrier of the قربة puts over his chest [when carrying the قربة on his back]. (K voce عَرَقٌ.) b4: See also جُمَانٌ. b5: A [receptacle for dates, such as is called] دَوْخَلَّة, [made of palmleaves,] before it is woven. (M, TA.) b6: and [the pl.] سَفَائِفُ signifies Wide ribs: or, as some say, all the ribs. (M.) سَفْسَفٌ A certain plant; (M, TA;) said by IDrd to be of the dial. of El-Yemen; that which the people of Nejd call the عَنْقَز, which is the مَرْزَنْجُوش [or marjoram]. (TA.) A2: See also سَفِيفٌ.

سَفْسَافٌ The dust of flour, that rises, (K,) or flies and rises, (TA,) at the sifting. (K, TA.) b2: The fine particles or dust: (S, Mgh, K:) or such as rises, or spreads, of dust. (M.) b3: Hence, (Mgh,) سَفْسَافُ الشِعْرِ (Mgh, K) (assumed tropical:) What is bad of poetry, (K, TA,) imperfectly, or unsoundly, done. (TA. [In the CK, الشَّعَرِ is erroneously put for الشِعْرِ; and Freytag appears to have read الشَّعِيرِ.]) سَفْسَافٌ signifies (assumed tropical:) Bad poetry: and (assumed tropical:) anything imperfectly, or unsoundly, done. (M.) Anything bad. (S, K. [Compare the Hebr.

אֲסַפְסֻף occurring with the article, and with the quiescent, in Numbers xi. 4.]) (assumed tropical:) Such as is bad of natural dispositions. (M.) And (assumed tropical:) A contemptible, or despicable, thing or affair. (S, K.) It is said in a trad., إِنَّ اللّٰهَ يُحِبُّ مَعَالِىَ الأَمُورِ وَ يُبْغِضُ سَفْسَافَهَا, (S, M, Mgh, TA,) or يَكْرَهُ سَفْسَافَهَا, (S, TA,) i. e. (assumed tropical:) [Verily God loves lofty things, or things whereby one acquires eminence or nobility, and] hates paltry, and mean, things. (Mgh, Sgh, TA.) سَفْسَافٌ signifies [also] (assumed tropical:) An action, and a saying, in which is no good. (Ham p. 232; where the foregoing trad. is cited as an ex.) And (assumed tropical:) Any bad wind: (TA:) [or] سَفْسَافَةٌ signifies a wind running a little above the ground; and so ↓ مُسَفْسِفَةٌ: (M:) or the latter, a wind that raises the fine dust, and runs a little above the ground. (S, K.) b2: حَلِفٌ سَفْسَافٌ (tropical:) A false, or lying, swearing, in which is no ratification. (TA.) سُفَاسِفٌ Vehement hunger. (Ibn-'Abbád, K.) مُسِفٌّ [act. part. n. of 4, q. v.]. b2: Anything cleaving, or sticking, to another thing. (A'Obeyd, TA.) b3: مَرَّ مُسِفًّا He passed by fleeing from his companion, running most vehemently. (Ibn-'Abbád, TA.) مُسَفْسِفَةٌ: see سَفْسَافٌ, last sentence but one.

A2: Also, without the ة, (tropical:) Ungenerous, or mean, in giving. (S, M.)

ضف

1 ضَفَّهُ, (O, K,) aor. ـُ inf. n. ضَفٌّ, (O,) He collected it together. (O; K,) b2: And ضَفَّ, [app. for ضَفَّ أَصَابِعَــهُ,] (Fr, O, K;) aor. and inf. n. as above, (Fr, O,) said of one warming himself, He closed his fingers together and put them near to the fire. (Fr, O, K.) b3: And ضَفَّ النَّاقَةَ, (S, O, K,) aor. and inf. n. as above, (TA,) He milked the camel with the whole hand; (S, O, K, TA;) because of the largeness of the dug; mentioned by Az, on the authority of Ks; (TA;) a dial. var. of ضَبَّهَا: (S, O:) or, accord. to Fr, the doing thus is termed الضَّفُّ; but الضَّبُّ signifies “ the putting one's thumb upon the teat and then turning his fingers over the thumb and the teat together: ” or, as is said on other authority, الضَّفُّ signifies the clasping the two teats together with the hand when milking: [but this is also said to be the meaning of الضَّبُّ:] or, as Lh says, the grasping the teat with all one's fingers. (TA.) A2: ضَفَّ القَوْمُ عَلَى الطَّعَامِ, or المَآءِ, [aor. app. ضَفِّ or ضَفَّ, or both,] inf. n. ضَفٌّ and ضَفَفٌ, [see the latter of these below,] The people, or party, pushed, pressed, crowded, or thronged, together upon the food, or the water. (TK.) [See also what next follows.]6 تضافّوا عَلَيْهِ They multiplied, or became numerous, (S, O, K,) and collected themselves together, (O, K,) [and, accord. to an explanation of the part. n., by Lh, pushed, pressed, crowded, or thronged, together,] upon it, or at it; namely water, (S, O, K,) &c.; (O, K;) like تصافّوا. (TA.) b2: And تضافوا signifies also, accord. to the O and K, خَفَّتْ أَحْوَالُهُمْ; but correctly, as in the “ Nawádir ” of Az, أَمْوَالُهُمْ [i. e. Their possessions became scanty]. (TA.) ضَفٌّ Narrow, or strait, and hard: so in the phrase رَجُلٌ ضَفُّ الحَالِ [A man whose state, or condition, is narrow, or strait, and hard]: (Az, S, O, K: *) and one says also الحَالِ ↓ رجل ضَفَفُ and قَوْمٌ ضَفَفُوا الحَالِ; but idghám is more proper. (Sb, TA.) A2: شَاةٌ ضَفَّةُ الشُّخْبِ A ewe, or goat, whose stream of milk from the udder is wide. (AA, O, L, K.) ضُفٌّ A little thing resembling the tick, of the colour of ashes and dust, the sting, or bite, of which causes the skin to break forth with the eruption termed شَرًى [q. v.]: (Aboo-Málik, O, K:) pl. ضِفَفَةٌ, like قِرَدَةٌ. (K.) ضَفَّةٌ A single act of pushing, pressing, crowding, or thronging, together upon water. (S, O, K. [See ضَفَفٌ]) b2: دَخَلْتُ فِى ضَفَّةِ القَوْمِ and ↓ ضَفْضَفَتِهِمْ (O, K *) are phrases mentioned by As (O, TA) and Lth (TA) as meaning I entered among the company, or collective body, of the people, or party. (O, K. *) b3: And ضَفَّةٌ signifies also The first دُفْعَة [i. e. rush, or quantity that pours forth at once or that is poured forth at once], or دَفْعَة [i. e. single act of pouring], (accord. to different copies of the K,) of water. (K.) A2: See also the next paragraph, in five places.

ضِفَّةٌ (T, S, O, Mgh, Msb, K) and ↓ ضَفَّةٌ (T, O, Mgh, Msb, K) The side of a river (T, S, O, Mgh, Msb, K) and of a well: (Msb:) ضِفَّتَاهُ signifying its (a river's) two sides: (S:) and الوَادِى ↓ ضَفَّتَا, or الحَيْزُومِ, and ضِفَّتَاهُ, the two sides of the valley, or of the حيزوم [i. e. breast, or chest, &c.]: (IAar, K:) and البَحْرِ ↓ ضَفَّةُ [or ضِفَّتُهُ] the shore of the sea: (K:) and the dual of ↓ ضَفَّةٌ [or ضِفَّةٌ?] occurs in a saying of 'Alee metaphorically used as meaning (assumed tropical:) the two sides of the eyelids: (TA:) the pl. of ضِفَّةٌ is ضِفَفٌ, (Msb,) or ضِفَاف; (TA;) and that of ↓ ضَفَّةٌ is ضَفَّاتٌ. (Msb.) ضَفَفٌ The pushing, pressing, crowding, or thronging, together, of people, at, or upon, water [to drink thereof or to water their beasts]. (S, O, K. [See also 1, last explanation.]) and Numerousness of the persons composing a family, or household. (S, O, K:) or, accord. to Lh, visitors and friends that come time after time; and one's household, or family: or, as some say, i. q. حَشَمٌ [i. e. one's dependents, &c.]. (TA.) And The taking of food with other people: (S, O, K: *) thus in a trad. in which it is said of the Prophet, مَا شَبِعَ مِنْ خُبْزٍ وَلَحْمٍ إِلَّا عَلَى ضَفَفٍ

[He did not satiate himself with the eating of bread and flesh-meat except in a case of taking thereof with others], as expl. by a man of the desert in answer to a question put to him by Málik Ibn-Deenár: (S, O: but in the latter, لَمْ يَشْبَعْ:) or the case of the eaters' being too many for the food: (Th, O, K:) [or,] accord. to Kh, (S, O,) numerousness of the hands upon the food: (S, O, Msb:) [or,] accord. to As, the case of the property's being little, and the devourers thereof many. (S, O.) [See also حَفَفٌ.] Accord. to Az, (S, O,) Straitness, and hardness, or hardship: (S, O, Msb:) accord. to Fr, (S, O,) want. (S, O, Msb, K.) [See two exs. voce حَفَفٌ.] Also Weakness. (Fr, O, K.) And Haste (Fr, S, O, Msb) in an affair: (Msb:) so in the saying, لَقِيتُهُ عَلَى ضَفَفٍ [I met him, or found him, in a state of haste]. (Fr, S, O.) And A quantity less than will fill the measure, and less than anything that is filled. (Sh, O, K.) And Food, or the eating, less than satiates. (TA.) A2: See also ضَفٌّ.

ضفاف [thus written without any syll. sign] The quality denoted by the epithet ضَفُوفٌ applied to a she-camel or a ewe or goat. (TA.) ضَفُوفٌ Having much milk, not to be milked save with the whole hand; (O, K; *) applied to a camel, (O, K,) and to a ewe or goat: so in a verse cited voce صُوفٌ, as some relate it; but as others relate it, the word is صَفُوف, with ص. (TA.) b2: and [hence, app.,] عَيْنٌ ضَفُوفٌ (assumed tropical:) A source abounding with water. (TA.) فُلَانٌ مِنْ لَفِيفِنَا وَضَفِيفِنَا, (O, TA,) in the K هُوَ مِنْ ضَفِيفِنَا وَلَفِيفِنَا, but the former is the right order, (TA,) a saying mentioned by Aboo-Sa'eed, (O, TA,) means Such a one is of those whom we associate with us, and those whom we congregate with us, when events befall us. (O, K, * TA.) ضَفَافَةٌ, (O, K,) without teshdeed, (O,) like سَحَابَةٌ, (K,) Devoid of intellect, or intelligence. (O, K.) ضَفْضَفَةٌ: see ضَفَّةٌ.

مَآءٌ مَضْفُوفٌ A water that is thronged [so that it has become little in quantity]; (S, O, K;) like مَشْفُوهٌ; (S, O;) to which many men and cattle have come: (Lh, TA:) occurring in a verse cited voce مُدَارَةٌ, in art. دور: (S, O, TA:) in that verse, Aboo-' Amr Esh-Sheybánee, instead of المَضْفُوف, read المَظْفُوف; which means [the same, (K in art. ظف,) or] “ occupied. ” (IB, TA.) b2: [Hence,] رَجُلٌ مَضْفُوفٌ, (tropical:) A man exhausted of what he possessed [in consequence of much begging]; like مَثْمُودٌ: (S, O, TA:) [see also مَشْفُوهٌ:] some say مَضْفُوفٌ عَلَيْهِ. (TA.)