سفط

سَفَطٌ ذ A thing (M, Mgh, Msb, K) like a جُوَالِق [or sack ], (M, K,) or like a قُفَّة [or basket woven of palm-leaves ], (K,) in which are stowed perfume and similar things, (Mgh, Msb, TA,) of the apparatus of women: (Mgh, TA:) an Arabic word, well known: (TA:) pl. أَسْفَاطٌ. (S, M, Mgh, Msb, K.) ― -b2- And hence, (tropical:) A casket, or small chest. (Mgh.) It is related that an Arab of the desert, passing by at the burial of Mo- hammad, asked why they had not placed the Apostle of God in a سَفَط of brown aloes-wood encased with gold. (TA.)