فد

ى1 فَدَاهُ, (T, S, M, &c.,) aor. ـْ (Msb, K,) inf. n. فِدَآءٌ (T, S, M, Mgh, K,) [omitted in my copy of the Msb, probably by inadvertence,]) and فَدًى, (Mgh,) or فِدًى, (so in the M, accord. to the TT,) or also both of these, (Fr, T, S, Msb, K,) the latter of them said by Fr, on one occasion, to be the more common, (T, TA,) [which is the case when it is a subst., like فِدْيَةٌ,] but 'Alee Ibn-Suleymán El-Akhfash [i. e. El-Akhfash El-Asghar] is related to have said that this is not allowable except by poetic license, and El-Kálee says that الفِدَى was used by the Arabs in conjunction with الحِمَى, [see حِمَآءُ, in art. حمى,] but other forms were used in other cases [among which he seems to mention فَدَآء, with fet-h and the lengthened alif, but the words in which I find this expressed are somewhat ambiguous, and are also rendered doubtful by an erasure and an alteration]; (TA;) and ↓ افتداهُ, (M,) [whence an ex. in a verse which will be found in what follows,] or بِهِ ↓ افتدى (K, TA) and مِنْهُ, (TA,) [but I do not know افتدى in either of these phrases as having any other than the well-known meaning of فَدَى نَفْسَهُ, which is strangely omitted in the K;] and know ↓ فادِاهُ, (S, Mgh, Msb, K, TA,) inf. n. مُفَادَاةٌ and فِدَآءٌ; (Msb, TA;) but some explain this differently [as will be shown in what follows]; (T, Mgh, Msb, TA;) He gave his ransom; (S;) he gave a thing, (K, TA, [اَعْطاهُ in the CK being a mistake for أَعْطَى, without the affixed pronoun,]) or a captive, for him, (TA,) and so liberated him; (K, TA;) [i. e. he ransomed him;] or he liberated him, or ransomed him, مِنَ الأَسْرِ [from captivity]: (Mgh, Msb:) or ↓ فاداهُ signifies he loosed him, or set him free, and took his ransom: (Mgh, Msb, TA:) or مُفَادَاةٌ signifies the giving a man and taking a man [in exchange]: and فِدَآءٌ, [as inf. n. of فَدَاهُ,] the purchasing him [from captivity or the like]: (Mbr, T, Mgh, Msb, TA:) or the preserving a man from misfortune by what one gives by way of compensation for him; as also فَدًى: (Er-Rághib, TA:) you say, فَدَيْتُهُ بِمَالِى I purchased [i. e. ransomed] him with my property, and بِنَفْسِى with myself: (T:) or, accord. to Nuseyr Er-Rázee, the Arabs say, الأَسِيرَ ↓ فَادَيْتُ [I ransomed the captive], and فَدَيْتُهُ بِأَبِى وَ أُمِى [I ransomed him in a tropical sense with my father and my mother], and بِمَالٍ [with property], as though thou purchasedst him and freedst him therewith, when he was not a captive; and you may say, فَدَيْتُ الأَسيرَ meaning I freed the captive from the state in which he was, though ↓ فَادَيْتُ is better in this sense: as to the reading تَفْدُوهُمْ [in the Kur ii. 79], Aboo-Mo'ádh says, it means Ye purchase them from the enemy and liberate them; but the reading ↓ تُفَادُوهُمْ, he says, means ye contend with them who are in your hands respecting the price and they so contend with you: (T, TA:) [that ↓ افتداهُ is syn. with فَدَاهُ is shown by what here follows:] a poet says, يُفْتَدَى لَفَدَيْتُهُ فَلَوْ كَانَ مَيتٌ بِمَا لَمْ تَكُنْ عَنْهُ النُّفُوسُ تَطِيبُ [And if a person dead were to be ransomed, assuredly I would ransom him with what minds would not be willing to relinquish]. (M, TA.) b2: [The inf. ns. of the first of these verbs are much used in precative phrases:] they said, فَدًى لَكَ [for فَدَاكَ فَدًى, and therefore virtually meaning فُدِيتَ Mayest thou be ransomed; the ل being لِلتَّبْيِينِ i. e. “ for the purpose of notifying ” the person addressed]: (TA:) and بِى أَ فَدًى لَكَ [ for فَدَاكَ أَبِى بِنَفْسِهِ فَدًى, and therefore virtually meaning simply فَدَاكَ أَبِى بِنَفْسِهِ May my father ransom thee with himself; so that it may be well rendered may my father be a ransom for thee]: (S:) and فِدَآء, with tenween, some of the Arabs pronounce with kesr [to the ء, i. e. they pronounce فِدَآء with the tenween of kesr], peculiarly when it is next to [meaning immediately followed by] the preposition ل, saying فِدَآءٍ لَكَ, because it is indeterminate; they intending thereby the meaning of a prayer; and As has cited [as an ex. thereof] the saying of En-Nábighah [Edh-Dhubyánee], مَهْلًا فِدَآءٍ لَكَ الأَقْوَامُ كُلُّهُمُ وَمَا أُثَمِرُ مِنْ مَالٍ وَمِنْ وَلَدِ [Act gently: may the peoples, all of them, and what I make to be abundant of wealth and of offspring, give themselves as a ransom, or be a ransom, for thee: فِدَآءٍ being app. assimilated to an indeterminate imperative verbal noun such as صَهٍ in the phrase صَهٍ يَا رَجُلُ, which is as though one said اُسْكُتْ سُكُوتًا يَا رَجُلُ; thus meaning here لِيَفْدِكَ: but De Sacy mentions, in his “ Chrest. Arabe,” see. ed., vol. ii., p. 460, three allowable readings (not the foregoing reading) in this verse, namely, فدآءٌ and فدآءً and فدآءٍ; and adds that what here follows is said by a commentator to be, of several explanations, that which is the right: والقول الآخر وهو الصحيح ان فدآءِ بمعنى ليُفدِكَ فبناه كما بنى الامر وكذلك تَراكِ و دَراكِ لانه بمعنى اترك و ادرك: this, it will be observed, is similar to the explanation which I have offered of فِدَآءٍ لك; for ليُفدِك is app. a typographical mistake for ليَفدِك: and I incline to think that فدآءِ, though supposed to be correct and therefore likened to تَراكِ and دَراكِ, is a mistake of a copyist for فدآءٍ; and the more so because I find in Ahlwardt's “ Divans of the Six Ancient Arabic Poets ” the three readings فِداءٌ and فِداءً and فِداءٍ, but not فِداءِ]. (S, TA.) b3: وَفَدَيْنَاهُ بِذِبْحٍ [in the Kur xxxvii. 107] means And we made an animal prepared for sacrifice to be a ransom for him, and freed him from slaughter. (T, TA.) b4: فَدَتْ نَفْسَهَا مِنْ زَوْجِهَا and ↓ افتدت [alone] mean She gave property to her husband so that she became free from him by divorce. (Msb, TA.) b5: See also what next follows.2 فدّاهُ, (S, * K,) or فدّاهُ بِنَفْسِهِ, (S, * TA,) [or both, for both are correct,] inf. n. تَفْدِيَةٌ; (S, K;) and بنفسه ↓ فَدَاهُ, (S, TA, *) aor. ـْ inf. n. فِدَآءٌ; (TA;) He said to him ↓ فِدَاكَ جُعِلْتُ [May I be made thy ransom, i. e. a ransom for thee]. (S, K, TA.) 3 فَاْدَىَ see 1, former half, in five places. b2: In the saying respecting bloodwits, وَإِنْ أَحَبُّوا فَادَوْا, the meaning is, [And if they like,] they free the slayer, or his next of kin who is answerable for him, and accept the bloodwit; because this is a substitute for the blood, like as the ransom is a substitute for the captive. (Mgh.) 4 افداهُ الأَسِيرَ [in the CK (erroneously) الاسيرُ] He accepted from him the ransom of the captive. (M, K.) Hence the saying of the Prophet to Kureysh, when 'Othmán Ibn-'Abd-Allah and El-Hakam Ibn-Keysán had been made captives, لَا نُفْدِيكُمُو هُمَا حتَّى يَقْدَمَ صَاحِبَانَا [We will not accept from you the ransom of them two until our two companions shall come], meaning [by the two companions] Saad Ibn-Abee-Wakkás and 'Otbeh Ibn-Ghazwán. (M.) b2: افدى فُلَانٌ Such a one danced, or dandled, his child: (K, TA:) because of his [often] saying, فَدِى لَكَ أَبِى وَ أُمِى [May my father and my mother be ransoms for thee]. (TA.) A2: افدى also signifies He made for his dried dates a store-chamber. (K.) b2: And (assumed tropical:) He became large in his body; (IAar, T, K, TA;) as though it became like the فَدَآء [q. v.]. (TA.) b3: And He sold dates. (IAar, T, K.) 6 تفادوا They ransomed one another. (S, TA.) b2: And (assumed tropical:) They guarded themselves, one by another; as though every one of them made his fellow to be his ransom. (Msb, TA.) b3: And تفادى مِنْهُ (tropical:) He guarded against it, or was cautious of it, and kept aloof from it. (S, K, * TA.) 8 إِفْتَدَىَ see 1, first quarter, in two places; and again, near the middle of the paragraph. b2: As intrans., افتدى signifies [He ransomed himself;] he gave a ransom for himself. (Er-Rághib, TA.) You say, افتدى مِنْهُ بِكَذَا [He ransomed himself from him with such a thing]. (S.) Hence the usage of the verb in the Kur ii. 229. (TA.) See 1, last sentence but one.

فَدًى and ↓ فِدًى and ↓ فِدَآءٌ and ↓ فِدْيَةٌ all signify the same, (S, K,) i. e. [A ransom;] a thing, (K, TA,) or a captive, (TA,) that is given for a man, who is therewith liberated: (K, TA:) [the first three are also inf. ns. (and have been mentioned as such in the first paragraph); therefore when you say فَدًى لَكَ أَبِى and فِدًى لك ابى, the words فَدًى and فِدًى may be either inf. ns. or substs.: as substs., the second and third are more common than the first:] فِدْيَةً [is also sometimes expl. as an inf. n., but accord. to general usage] signifies as above; (K, TA;) or property given as a substitute [or a ransom] for a captive: (Mgh, Msb, TA:) and property by the giving of which one preserves himself from evil in the case of a religious act in which he has fallen short of what was incumbent, like the expiation for the breaking of an oath and of a fast; and thus it is used in the Kur ii. 180 and 192: (Er-Rághib, TA:) and its pl. is فِدًى and فِدَيَاتٌ. (Mgh, Msb, TA.) فِدًى: see the next preceding paragraph. [Hence the phrase] جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ: see 2. It is also a pl. of its syn. فِدْيَةً. (Mgh, Msb, TA.) فِدْيَةٌ: see فَدًى.

A2: خُذْ عَلَى هِدْيَتِكَ وَ فِدْيَتِكَ, accord. to the K, but in the S, خُذْ فِى هِدْيَتِكَ وَقِدْيَتِكَ, mentioned in art. قدى, is a saying meaning [Take thou to] that [course] in which thou wast: the author of the K seems to have followed Sgh, who has mentioned it here: (TA in the present art.:) فِدْيَهٌ and قِدْيَهٌ are dial. vars. (TA in art. قدى.) فَدَآءٌ An أَنْبَار, (K, TA,) i. e. (TA) a collection, of wheat: (M, K, * TA:) or it signifies, (K,) or signifies also, (M,) a collection of food, consisting of barley and dates and the like: (M, K:) or an أَنْبَار, i. e. a collection, of food, consisting of wheat and dates and barley: (S:) and it is said to signify a place in which dates are spread and dried, in the dial. of 'Abd-El-Keys. (M.) b2: And The حَجْم [or protuberant, or prominent, part, or perhaps the bulk,] of a thing (M, K) of any kind. (M.) فِدَآئٌ: see فَدًى.

الفِدَاوِيَّةُ is the appellation of A class, or rect, of the خَوَارِج of the دُرْزِيَّة [or دُرُوز, whom we call the Druses; it is a coll. gen. n., of which the n. un. is فِدَاوِىُّ; the و being a substitute for ء: it is used to signify those who undertake perilous adventures, more particularly for the destruction of enemies of their party; as though they offered themselves as ransoms or victims; and hence it is applied to the sect called in our histories of the Crusades “ The Assassins ”]. (TA.) مَفْدِىٌّ, originally مَفْدُوىٌ. In the saying بِنَفْسِى

فُلَانٌ مُفْدِىٌّ With my soul, or myself, may such a one be ransomed, مَفْدِىٌّ is often suppressed; being meant to be understood.]

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 الــشَّعِيرِ.]) 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.)