سفن

1 سَفَنَهُ ذ , (S, M, L, K,) aor. سَفِنَ , (M, L, K,) inf. n. سَفْنٌ, (S, M, L,) i. q. قَشَرَهُ [i. e. He divested or stripped it of, or he stripped off, scraped off, rubbed off, abraded, or otherwise removed, its outer covering or integument, or superficial part; he pared it, peeled it, &c.: and he, or it, pared, peeled, stripped, or rubbed, it off; namely, anything superficial and generally a thing adhering to the surface of another thing]. (S, M, L, K.) Imra-el-Keys says, فَجَاءَ خَفِيًّا يَسْفِنُ الأَرْضَ بَطْنُهُ تَرَىالتُّرْبَ مِنْهُ لَاصِقًا كُلَّ مَلْصَقِ [ And he came clandestinely, his belly paring the ground, thou seeing the dust sticking to him with the utmost sticking ]; (S, M, L; but in the S, لَازِقًا and مَلْزَقِ;) meaning that he came cleaving to the ground in order that the objects of the chase might not see him and flee from him. (S, L.) ― -b2- And He pared and smoothed it; as also ↓ سفّنهُ [but app. in an intensive sense, or used in relation to several objects]. (M, L.) ― -b3- And سَفَنَتِ الرِيحُ التُّرَابَ, (M, L,) aor. as above, (L,) and so the inf. n., (M, L,) The wind reduced the dust to a fine powder: (M, L:) or سَفَنَت ِالرِيحُ التُّرَابَ عَنْ وَجْهِ الأرْضِ [ The wind pared off the dust from the surface of the earth ]. (S, L.) ― -b4- And سَفَنَتِ الرِّيحُ, aor. سَفُنَ , (Lh, M, L, K,) inf. n. سُفُونٌ, (Lh, M, L,) The wind blew upon the surface of the earth [app. removing the dust ]; as also سَفِنَتِ, (Lh, M, L, K,) aor. سَفَنَ . (K.) ― -b5- And السَّفِينَةُ تَسْفِنُ عَلَى وَجْهِ الأَرْضِ The ship, or boat, sticks upon the ground. (L.)