سفل

أَسْفَلُ ذ Lower, and lowest; contr. of أَعْلَى (M, Msb, K:) fem. سُفْلَى: (TA:) and pl. أَسَافِلُ. (M, TA.) One says, صَارَأَسْفَلَ مِنْ غَيْرِهِ [ He, or it, became lower than another ]. (Msb.) And it is said in the Kur [viii. 43], وا@لرَّكْبُ أَسْفَلَ مِنْكُمْ The caravan being in a place lower than ye; اسفل being here an adv. n.: or, as some read, أَسْفَلُ مِنْكُمْ, i. e. being lower than ye. (M.) ― -b2- ↓ ثُمَّ رَدَدْنَاهُ أَسْفَلَ سَافِلِينَ, in the Kur [xcv. 5], means (assumed tropical:) [ Then we rendered him the lowest of low: or] we reduced him to extreme old age, or decrepitude: or to a state of perishing, or passing away: or to a state of error; relating to him who has disbelieved; (M, K;) for every infant is born of the natural constitution with which he is created in his mother's womb, and he who disbelieves and errs is reduced to this state: (M:) or the meaning is, we have made him to be of the people of the fire [ of Hell ]: or [ we have made him to go down ] to the fire [ of Hell ]. (Bd.) ― -b3- سُفْلَي مُضَرَ [ The lower of Mudar ] is said to denote those of Mudar with the exception of Kureysh and Keys: opposed to عُلْيَامُضَرَ. (TA in art. علو.) ― -b4- See also سُفْلٌ. ― -b5- The pl. أَسَافِلُ means The lower, or lowest, parts of valleys [&c.]. (TA.) The phrase كِلَابُ الأَسَافِلِ occurs in a verse of Aboo-Dhu-eyb as meaning [ The dogs ] of the lower, or lowest, parts of the valleys. (M.) ― -b6- And (assumed tropical:) The young ones of camels. (As, S, * TA.)