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سلف
Root entry · 1 derived lemmaمُسْلِفٌ ذ , (S, M, O, L,) thus in some copies of the K, as in the S &c., but in other copies of the K, erroneously, ↓ سُلْفٌ, (TA,) A woman that has attained the age of five and forty years, (S, M, O, K,) and the like: (S, M, O:) or i. q. نَصَفٌ [i. e. middle-aged, or forty-five years old, or fifty years old ]: (M:) an epithet specially applied to a female. (S, O.) A poet says, وَكَاعِبٌ وَمُسْلِفُ فِيهِ ثَلَاثٌ كَالدُّمَى [ Among them three females like the images of ivory, or of marble, &c., and one with swelling breasts, and one of middle age, &c.]. (S, M: in the O with اـِلَى in the place of فِيهَا.)
Derived headwords
مُسْلِفٌ
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وَكَاعِبٌ وَمُسْلِفُ
فِيهِ ثَلَاثٌ كَالدُّمَى