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سفر

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

3 سَاْفَرَ [سافر is trans. and intrans.] You say, الرِّيَاحُ يُسَافِرُ بَعْضُهَا بَعْضًا [ The winds vie, one with another, in sweeping the ground, effacing one another's traces ]: for the east wind removes and disperses the longitudinal traces made by the west wind, and the south wind makes traces across them. (S, * K, * TA.) -A2- And سافر, inf. n. مُسَافَرَةٌ (S, Msb, K) and سِفَارٌ, (S, K,) He journeyed, or went, (K,) or went forth to journey, (S, Msb,) اـِلَى بَلَدِ كَذَا [ to such a country, or town ]. (S, K.) And سَافَرَ سَفَرًا بَعِيدًا [ He journeyed, or went, a far journey ]. (A, Mgh.) [See also 1.] ― -b2- [Hence,] (assumed tropical:) He died. (K.) ― -b3- And سَافَرَتِ الشَّمْسُ عَنْ كَبِدِ السَّمَاآءِ (tropical:) [ The sun declined from the middle of the sky ]. (A.) ― -b4- And سَافَرَتْ عَنْهُ الحُمَّى (tropical:) [ The fever departed from him ]. (A.)

Derived headwords

سَاْفَرَverb
  1. 1.
الرِّيَاحُ يُسَافِرُ بَعْضُهَا بَعْضًا
اـِلَى بَلَدِ كَذَا
سَافَرَ سَفَرًا بَعِيدًا
سَافَرَتِ الشَّمْسُ عَنْ كَبِدِ السَّمَاآءِ
سَافَرَتْ عَنْهُ الحُمَّى