ضيف

1 ضَافَ ذ , (M, K,) [aor. يَضِيفُ,] inf. n. ضَيْفٌ; (TK;) and ↓ اضاف, (M,) and ↓ تضيّف, and ↓ ضيّف; (K;) He, or it, inclined, (M, K,) and approached, or drew near; اـِلَيْهِ [ to him, or it ]. (M.) ― -b2- And ضافت الشَّمْسُ, (S, M, Mgh,) or ضافت الشمس لِلْغُرُوبِ, (O,) aor. تَضِيفُ, inf. n. ضَيْفٌ; (M;) and ↓ تضيّفت, (S, M, Mgh,) or تضيّفت للغروب; (O;) and ↓ ضيّفت, (S, M, Mgh,) ضيّفت للغروب; (O;) The sun inclined, (S, Mgh, O,) or drew near, (M,) to setting. (S, M, Mgh, O.) ― -b3- And ضافت said of a woman, aor. as above, She menstruated; (O, K;) because she who does so inclines, or declines, from a state of pureness to menstruation. (O, TA.) ― -b4- And ضاف السَّهْمُ, (M,) or ضاف السهم عَنِ الهَدَفِ, (S, O,) The arrow turned aside from the butt: (S, M, O:) like صاف. (S, O.) And ضاف عَنِ الشَّىْءِ, inf. n. ضَوْفٌ [and ضَيْفٌ], He, or it, turned away from the thing: like صاف, inf. n. صَوْفٌ [and صَيْفٌ]. (M in art. ضوف.) ― -b5- And ضاف said of a man, (assumed tropical:) He feared; as also ↓ اضاف. (M.) And مِنْهُ ↓ اضاف (assumed tropical:) He feared it, or was cautious of it; namely, an event, or affair; (S, M, O, K, TA;) as also ضاف مِنْهُ: (TA:) or (tropical:) he was cautious of it with the caution of one encompassed, or beset, thereby. (Z, TA.) -A2- ضِفْتُهُ, (S, M, O, Msb, K,) aor. أَضِيفُهُ, (O, K,) inf. n. ضِيَافَةٌ, (S,) or ضَيْفٌ, (Msb,) or both; (M, O, K;) and ↓ تَضَيَّفْتُهُ; (S, M, O, K;) I alighted at his abode; (M, Msb;) and inclined to him: (M:) or I alighted at his abode (S, M, O, Msb, K) as a ضَيْف [or guest ], (S, O, K,) or and became his ضَيْف [or guest ]. (M, O, Msb. [See also 3.]) And ضاف القَوْمَ, and ↓ تَضَيَّفَهُمْ, He alighted at the abode of the people, or party, as a ضَيْف [or guest ]. (Mgh.) And ↓ تَضَيَّفْتُهُ I came to him as a ضَيْف [or guest ]. (L, TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] ضافهُ الهَمُّ (assumed tropical:) Anxiety befell him. (S, M, * O. [See, again, 3.]) ― -b3- And ضِفْتُهُ signifies also I sought, or desired, of him entertainment as a ضَيْف [or guest ]; and so ↓ تَضَيَّفْتُهُ; (M;) or this latter, (L, Msb,) and ↓ اِسْتَضَفْتُهُ, (M,) I asked of him such entertainment. (M, L, Msb.)