صفرد

Entries on صفرد in 6 Arabic dictionaries by the authors Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane, Ibn Manẓūr, Lisān al-ʿArab, Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes by Reinhart Dozy, and 3 more

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Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane (d. 1876) المعجم العربي الإنجليزي لإدوارد وليام لين

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صفرد

صِفْرِدٌ A certain bird, (S, M, K,) of a cowardly nature, (K,) larger than the sparrow, (M,) that frequents houses, and is the most cowardly of birds; (Lth;) it is afraid of the [little bird called]

صَعْوَة; (IAar;) and is by the vulgar (S) called

أَبُو المَلِيحِ. (S, K. [Accord. to Golius, the nightingale: but this I think a mistake.]) أَجْبَنُ مِنْ صِفْرِدٍ [More cowardly than a sifrid] is a prov., (S, Meyd,) asserted by AO to be postclassical. (Meyd. [See Freytag's Arab. Prov. i.

372.])