ثقف: كما يقال: ثقف الشيء بمعنى صار حاذقا فطنا فيه (لين) يقال كذلك: ثقافة البحر: الحذق والفطنة في الملاحة (المقدمة 2: 34).
ثَقَّفَ: تستعمل في الكلام عن الأقلام، ففي دي ساسي منتخبات (2: 139): أعدد من الأقلام كل مْثَقّف، أي اختر من الأقلام كل مقّوم مسوّى. (دي ساسي).
ويقال عن القصائد: مقّفة الأطراف، أي محبرة مهذبة (تاريخ البربر 1: 24).
ثقّف حاله: قَوّم المعوج من سلوكه.
وثقّف سيرته: قوَّم سلوكه وأصلحه.
وثقّف الأخلاق: أصلح السلوك والآداب (بوشر).
والمصدر تثقفيف وثقِاف يستعمل بمعنى الإصلاح فيقال مثلا تثقيف البلد: إصلاح أمره أو تقوية وسائل دفاعه.
فابن القوطية (6ق) في كلامه عن الحصون والموانئ والحدود يقول: وأمر كلثوم بثقيف أمر افريقية فثقفها جهده. ويقول ابن حيان (85ق): حصَّن قصبتها وثقَّفها وشحنها بالأقوات. ويقول ابن صاحب الصلاة (2ق): يسمرون طول ليلهم على الأسوار ويثقفون أبواب المدينة بالثقاف طول النهار.
وفي ص47 ق منه: ونظر في تثقيف بجاية وأنظارها، ريث ما وجَّه لها من اختاره لحماية ديارها وأقطارها.
وفي ص70 ق منه: وتركا (السيدان) في البلاد المفتوحة من الموحدين والأمناء من ثقفها وضبطها للأمر العزيز.
وفي الخطيب 63ق: ثم تفقد البلاد واحكم ثقافها المقري 1: 250، تاريخ البربر 2: 114، 118، 140، 171، 257، 283.
وفي رياض النفوس 102 في كلامه عن شرطة المدينة بالليل يقول: وكان مَعَدّ قد ثقف البلد تثقيفا شديدا بالعسس والحرس والرصد الشديد مَعَدّ اسم الخليفة.
وثقّفه: أوقفه ومنعه من التقدم والحركة بوشر وأوقفه وحبسه. والمصدر منه تثقيف وثقاف ابن عباد 1: 152، 2: 15، معجم البيان، معجم ابن جبير.
وفي المعجم اللاتيني - العربي: سُجّنَ وثُقّف بالبناء للمجهول مقابل trucerat ( فوك)، ألكالا، مباحث 1، الملحق 51: 7، 4: 67 ورقم 13، المقري 2: 451 رقم س، 562، 741، ابن خلكان 10: 28 طبعة وستنقيلد، أبو الوليد 403.
كرتاس 49، 52، 99، 103، 197، 262، 264، 268، 270، 271).
وحبس المال ووضعه تحت الحراسة، ففي ابن القوطية 39ق: وحين توفي وجب على القاضي تثقيف المال وتحصينه.
ثاقف: جال بالسلاح (لين) وانظر الجريدة الآسيوية 1869، 2: 155).
تثقف: حُبس (فوك)، وضع تحت الحراسة (أماري 393)، (احذف من التعليقات النقدية تعليقة الناشر الذي لم يلاحظ أن تقّف في معجم بوشر وهي تصحيف ثقّف).
ثِقاف: حذق (انظر لين) ففي حيان بسام 3: 3ق (في نسخة ب إذ أن في نسخة أبياض في الأصل): فوارس برزوا في البسالة والثقاف: سور، نطاق، يقال مثلا ثِقاف الضاحية (البكري 103).
وفي تقويم قرطبة: لكل يوم من أيام الشهر جدول، والمقدمة التي توجد في أول الشهر والنتيجة التي توجد في آخره هما (ما لا يدخل في ثِقاف جدوله (16)، وما لم يدخل في ثقاف الأيام (24، 32 الخ).
آلة ثقاف: ما يستعمل للربط والتقييد، ولذلك فإن الأصفاد والأغلال آلة ثقاف (أبو الوليد 799).
وآلة ثقاف: سجن (ابن عباد 1: 153، أبو الوليد 786).
ثقافة: ثقافة الخل: حموضته (ابن العوام 1: 586).
والثقافة: الحذق (المقري 1: 617) ومن هذا قيل: أهل الثقافة وهم أهل الحذق والبراعة (في قتالهم الوحوش المفترسة) (تعليقات 232) وثقافة مكان الحصن تعني أن مكان الحصن قد اختير بحذق وبراعة. ثِيقاف: شكل من أشكال علم الرمل هذه صورته: ويقال هو شكل العقل (محيط المحيط)

ثقف

1 ثَقُفَ, aor. ـُ inf. n. ثَقَافَةٌ; and ثَقِفَ, aor. ـَ inf. n. ثَقَفٌ (S, K) and ثَقْفٌ; (K;) He (a man, S) became skilled, or skilful; and light, active, quick, or sharp; and intelligent, or sagacious. (S, K, TA.) b2: ثَقُفَ, aor. ـَ is also said of vinegar (خَلٌّ), meaning It was, or became, very acid; and so ثَقِفَ. (TA. [But I suspect that this may have been taken from a MS. in which خُلٌّ has been erroneously put for رَجُلٌ. In the JK, I find رَجُلٌ ثَقِيفٌ وَقَدْ ثَقُفَ ثَقَافَةً.]) A2: ثَاقَفَهُ فَثَقَفَهُ, aor. of the latter ثَقُفَ: see 3. b2: ثَقَفْتُ الشَّىْءَ, aor. ـَ inf. n. ثَقَافَةٌ and ثُقُوفَةٌ, I was, or became, skilled in the thing. (Ham p. 772.) b3: And ثَقْفٌ signifies The learning a thing quickly: [its verb is ثَقَفَ or ثَقِفَ:] you say, ثَقَفْتُ العِلْمَ فِى أَوْحَى

مُدَّةٍ, and الصِّنَاعَةَ, I acquired knowledge, or the science, and the art, or handicraft, quickly [in the shortest period]: (TA:) and ثَقِفْتُ الحَدِيثَ I understood the narration, or tradition, &c., quickly. (Msb.) ثَقِفَهُ, aor. ـَ (S, Msb, K,) inf. n. ثَقْفٌ, (S, K, *) or ثَقَفٌ, (Msb,) [but the former is better known,] primarily signifies, He perceived it, or attained it, by knowledge, or by deed: (Bd ii. 187:) or he perceived it, or attained it, by his sight, by expertness in vision: and hence, (Er-Rághib, TA,) (tropical:) he reached him, or overtook him, (IF, Msb, K, and Er-Rághib,) in war, or fight: (Msb:) or (K) (assumed tropical:) he found him: (S, K, and Bd in ii. 187 &c.:) or (assumed tropical:) he found him in the way of taking and overcoming: (Ksh in ii. 187:) or (K) (assumed tropical:) he took him, or it, (Lth, Msb, K,) namely, a thing: (Msb:) or (K) by implication, (Bd in ii. 187,) (assumed tropical:) he gained the victory, or mastery, over him; overcame him; (IDrd, Msb, K, and Bd ubi suprà;) or got possession of him. (IDrd, Msb, K.) It is said in the Kur [ii. 187 and iv. 93], وَاقْتُلُوهُمْ حَيْثُ ثَقِفْتُمُوهُمْ And slay ye them wherever ye find them: (Ksh, Bd, Jel, TA:) or wherever ye take them, or overcome them, or overtake them. (TA.) And exs. occur also in the Kur [iii. 108 and] viii. 59 and xxxiii. 61 [and lx. 2]. (TA.) For another ex., see 4, below. b4: ثَقِفَهُ also signifies He thrust him, or pierced him, [with a spear or the like,] namely, a man. (Ham p. 772.) b5: See also 2.2 ثقّفهُ, (S, Msb, K,) inf. n. تَثْقِيفٌ, (S, Mgh, K, KL,) He straightened it, or made it even, (S, Mgh, K, KL,) or straightened what was crooked thereof; (Msb;) namely, a spear, (S, KL,) [and a bow, (see ثِقَافٌ,)] or a crooked thing; with the ثِقَاف: (Mgh:) [and so ↓ ثَقَفَهُ, accord. to an explanation of the inf. n. ثَقْفٌ in the KL.] تَثْقِيفُ السَّهْمِ عَلَى القَوْسِ, as meaning The directing the arrow upon the bow straightly towards the object aimed at, is not approved. (Mgh.) b2: Hence, (Mgh,) (tropical:) He disciplined him, or educated him well, and amended him, or improved him. (Mgh, TA.) You say, لَوْلَا تَثْقِيفُكَ وَتَوْقِيفُكَ مَا كُنْتُ شَيْئًا (tropical:) [But for thy disciplining, or good educating, and amending, or improving, and thy teaching, I had not been anything]. (TA.) b3: You say also, of vinegar, يُثَقِّفُ الطَّعَامَ, i. e. It makes food acid. (Har p. 227.) 3 ثَاْقَفَ ↓ ثاقفهُ فَثَقَفَهُ, (K,) inf. n. of the former مُثَاقَفَةٌ and ثِقَافٌ, (TA,) and aor. of the latter ثَقُفَ, (K,) He vied with him, or strove to surpass him, in skill, (K, TA,) and intelligence, or sagacity, and the perceiving, or attaining, of a thing, and the doing thereof, (TA,) and he surpassed him therein. (K, TA.) Er-Rághib says that this is metaphorical. (TA.) [Accord. to J,] المُثَاقَفَةُ is from ثَقُفَ in the first of the senses explained above. (S.) b2: ثِقَافٌ also signifies The contending with another: and particularly in fight, or with the sword: (K: [see also ثَقْفٌ, below:]) and the using of, or performing with, the sword; like ثِقَافَةٌ. (TA.) And ثاقفهُ, inf. n. مُثَاقَفَةٌ, He played with him with the sword, or some other weapon. (TA.) 4 أُثْقِفْتُهُ [I was made to gain the mastery over him, or to overcome him: or, which is virtually the same,] he was appointed for me [that I might have the mastery over him]. (Sgh, K.) 'Amr Dhu-l-Kelb says, فَإِنْ أُثْقِفْتُمُونِى فَاقْتُلُونِى

فَسَوْفَ تَرَوْنَ بَالِى ↓ وَإِنْ أَثْقَفْ And if ye [be made to] gain the mastery over me, i. e. if it be appointed for you to meet me [and overcome me], then slay me: but if I meet [you and overcome], then shall ye see my condition: but some relate it thus: وَمَنْ أَثْقَفْ, meaning but whom I meet, of you, I will slay him: (Skr, Sgh, TA:) [and J gives it thus:] فَإِمَّا تَثْقَفُونِى الخ [meaning And if ye meet me &c.]. (S.) 5 تثقّف (tropical:) [He was, or became, disciplined, or educated well, and amended, or improved; quasipass. of 2, q. v.] You say, هَلْ تَثَقَّفْتُ إِلَّا عَلَى يَدِكَ (tropical:) [Was I, or have I been, disciplined, &c., save by thy agency, or means?]. (A, TA.) 6 تثاقفوا They contended, or played, one with another, with swords, or other weapons. (TA.) ثَقْفٌ Skilled, or skilful; and light, active, quick, or sharp; and intelligent, or sagacious; as also ↓ ثَقِفٌ and ↓ ثَقُفٌ (S, K) and ↓ ثَقِيفٌ and ↓ ثِقِّيفٌ: (K:) or ↓ ثَقِيفٌ signifies quick in understanding a narration: (Msb:) and ↓ ثَقَافٌ, applied to a woman, intelligent, or sagacious. (K.) You say also رَجُلٌ ثَقْفٌ لَقْفٌ and لَقِفٌ ↓ ثَقِفٌ, meaning A man who is a relater, a poet, an archer or a caster of the spear &c.: (Lth, JK, TA:) or light, active, quick, or sharp, and skilful: (S and K in art. لقف:) or quick in understanding what is said to him; and in taking what is thrown to him: or skilful in his art, or handicraft: (TA in that art.:) or a man who keeps, preserves, or guards, and manages, or orders, well, that which he possesses: (ISk, TA:) and Lh adds لَقِيفٌ ↓ ثَقِيفٌ: and Ibn-'Abbád, لِقِّيفٌ ↓ ثِقِّيفٌ. (TA.) b2: A man quick in taking, or seizing, his opponents, or adversaries. (Ksh ii. 187.) A2: ثَقْفٌ, or (as it is written in one place in the TA) ↓ ثَقَفٌ, also signifies Contention: and particularly in fight, or with the sword: like ثِقَافٌ [inf. n. of 3, q. v.]. (TA.) ثَقَفٌ: see ثَقْفٌ.

ثَقُفٌ: see ثَقْفٌ.

ثَقِفٌ: see ثَقْفٌ, in two places.

ثَقَافٌ: see ثَقْفٌ.

ثِقَافٌ Skill, and intelligence, or sagacity; as also ↓ ثُقُوفَةٌ. (TA.) A2: Also An instrument with which spears are straightened, (S, K, TA,) and bows also, (TA,) and [other] crooked things; (JK, Mgh, TA;) made of iron: (JK, TA:) or a strong piece of wood, a cubit in length, having at its extremity a hole large enough to admit the bow, [or the spear], which is inserted into it, and pinched and pressed in the part that requires this to be done until it becomes in the state that is desired; but this is not done to bows nor to spears until they have been greased, and prepared with fire, or exposed thereto so as to have become altered in colour: (AHn, TA:) the pl. [of pauc.] is أَثْقِفَةٌ and [of mult.] ثُقُفٌ. (JK, TA.) b2: [Also The handle of a shield of the kind called حَجَفَة: see إِخَاذَةٌ.]

ثَقِيفٌ: see ثَقْفٌ, in three places. b2: Also Very acid; applied to vinegar; (K;) and so ↓ ثِقِّيفٌ, (S, K,) like حِرِّيفٌ applied to the onion. (S.) And أَبُو ثَقِيفٍ (tropical:) Vinegar [itself]; so named because it makes food acid. (Har p. 227.) b3: Also, and ↓ مَثْقُوفٌ, A thing skilled in. (Ham p. 772.) b4: And both these words, A man thrust or pierced [with a spear or the like]. (Ham ibid.) ثِقَافَةٌ The use of, or performance with, the sword; like ثِقَافٌ [inf. n. of 3, q. v.]. (TA.) You say, هُوَ حَسَنُ الثِّقَافَةِ بِالسَّيْفِ [He is good in respect of performance with the sword]. (TA.) ثُقُوفَةٌ: see ثِقَافٌ.

ثِقِّيفٌ: see ثَقْفٌ, in two places: b2: and see ثَقِيفٌ.

أَثْقَفُ More, and most, skilled, or skilful, [in a general sense, and particularly] in contending, or playing, with the sword, or other weapon. (TA.) مُثَقَّفٌ A spear straightened, or made even. (TA.) [Accord. to Freytag, it is poetically used as signifying A spear itself; and so with ة.]

مَثْقُوفٌ: see ثَقِيفٌ.

وتد

1 وَتَدَ, aor. ـِ imp. تِدْ, inf. n. وَتْدٌ (S, L, K, &c.) and تِدَةٌ; (M, L, K, &c.;) and ↓ اوتد; (A, Msb, K;) and ↓ وتّد, (M, Mgh,) inf. n. تَوْتِيدٌ; (TA;) He knocked with a mallet, (Mgh,) and fixed, or made from or fast, a wooden pin, peg, or stake, (S, * M, A, * L, Msb, K,) in the ground or in a wall. (Msb.) b2: وَتَدَ, (M, L, K,) [aor. ـِ inf. n. وَتْدٌ and تِدَةٌ; (M, L;) and ↓ وتّد; (M, L, K;) It (a wooden pin, peg, or stake,) was, or became, fixed, firm, or fast. (M, L, K.) b3: وَتَّدَ اللّٰهُ الأَرْضَ بِالجِبَالِ, and ↓ أَوْتَدَهَا, (tropical:) [God made the earth firm, or fast by means of the mountains. (A.) b4: رجْلَهُ فِى الأَرْضِ ↓ وتّد (assumed tropical:) He fixed his foot firmly upon the ground. (L.) b5: فِى بَيْتِهِ ↓ وتّد (tropical:) He remained fixed in his house. (L.) b6: ↓ وتّد It (growing corn) put forth its stalks, and became firm and strong. (L.) b7: ↓ وتّد, (S, L,) inf. n. تَوْتِيدٌ, (K,) (tropical:) Libidine veneres exarsit vir: (S, L:) erexit penem. (K.) b8: It was said to an Arab of the desert, What is نَطْشَان? and he answered, العَطْشَانَ ↓ يُوَتِّدُ (tropical:) [It corroborates the word عطشان]: or, as some relate it, شَىْءٌ نَتِدُ بِهِ كَلَامَنَا [A thing, meaning a word, by which we corroborate our speech]. (A.) 2 وَتَّدَand 4: see 1.

وَتَدٌ and وَتْدٌ and وَدٌّ: see وَتِدٌ.

وَتِدٌ, (S, M, K, &c.,) of the dial. of El-Hijáz, and the most chaste form, (Msb,) and ↓ وَتَدٌ, (S, M, Msb, K,) and ↓ وَتْدٌ, (L, K,) and ↓ وَدٌّ, (S, M, Msb,) of the dial. of Nejd, (Msb,) the ت being made quiescent, and then changed into د, and incorporated into the final د, (S, * Msb,) and ↓ وَتِيدٌ, (L, art. ود,) A wooden pin, peg, or stake, which is fixed in the ground or in a wall: (M, L, K:) pl. أَوْتَادٌ. (S, M, L, K.) [You say,] أَذَلُّ مَنْ وَتِدٍ بِقَاعٍ [More vile than a wooden peg in a plain]: because it is always knocked. A proverb. (TA.) b2: وَتِدٌ وَاتِدٌ, an expression like شُغْلٌ شَاغلٌ, (As, S,) the latter word a corroborative; (K;) or A wooden pin, peg, or stake, firm, or fast, (A, L,) and erect. (L.) b3: أَوْتَادُ الأَرْضِ (tropical:) [lit. The pegs, or stakes, of the earth; i. e.] the mountains: (A, L, K:) so called because they make the earth firm, or fast. (L.) b4: أَوْتَادُ البِلَادِ (assumed tropical:) The chiefs of the towns, provinces, or countries. (L, K.) b5: أَوْتَادُ الفَم (tropical:) The teeth. (L, K, TA.) b6: وَتِدٌ, of a sandal, (assumed tropical:) The part that projects from the ear [or loop]. (L.) b7: وَتِدٌ (assumed tropical:) [A peg of a بَيْت, q. v.;] a portion, or division, of a foot of a verse, consisting of three letters: (L, K *:) it is of two kinds: one consisting of two movent letters followed by a quiescent letter; as فَعُو and عِلُنْ; which kind is called وَتِدٌ مَقْرُونٌ, a conjoined peg; because each two letters are conjoined by a vowel: the other consisting of three letters; one movent, then one quiescent, then one movent; as لَاتُ in مَفْعُولَاتُ; which kind is called وَتِدٌ مَفْرُوقٌ, a disjoined peg; because the quiescent letter disjoins the two movent letters: pl. أَوْتَادٌ. زِحَاف does not take place in the اوتاد, because the foot depends upon them; but it does in the أَسْبَاب. (L.) b8: وَتِدٌ (A, L, K) and وَتِدَةٌ (L) of the ear., (tropical:) [The tragus;] the small prominent thing in the anterior part, (A, L, K,) like a teat, (A, L,) next the uppermost part of the side of the beard: (L:) or the prominent part next the temple: (L:) or the وَتِدَانِ of the two ears are the two parts in the interior thereof resembling a وَتِد, also called the عَيْرَانِ. (S.) وَتِيدٌ: see وَتِدٌ.

وَاتِدٌ (tropical:) A man standing fixed, or firm, or motionless. (A, L.) b2: (tropical:) An erect horn. (A.) b3: Fixing, or making firm or fast, a wooden pin, peg, or stake. (L.) مَوْتُودٌ A wooden pin, peg, or stake, fixed, or made firm or fast. (L.) مِيتَدَةٌ (S, L, K,) and مِيتَدٌ (L, K) A mallet (مِرْزَبَّه, L, K,) with which wooden pins, pegs, or stakes are knocked [into the ground or a wall]. (S, L, K.)