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سوف

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4 اساف ذ , (S, M, K,) inf. n. اـِسَافَةٌ, (TA,) said of a man, (S, M,) His cattle perished, or died: (S, K:) or he had murrain occurring among his cattle: so in a verse of Tufeyl, cited voce اِسْتَرْخَى, in art. رخو. (M.) [Hence,] one says, أَسَافَ حتّّى مَايَشْتَكِى السَّوَافَ, (AA, S, Meyd, K,) or السُّوَافَ, (As, Meyd,) [ He had murrain among his cattle until he did not complain of the murrain: ] a prov., (Meyd,) applied to him who has become accustomed to casualties; (S, K;) or to him who has become inured to calamities, (A'Obeyd, Meyd, A,) so that he is not impatient of the vicissitudes of fortune. (A'Obeyd, Meyd.) ― -b2- اساف الوَالِدَانِ The two parents lost their child by his death: in which case, the child is said to be ↓ مُسَافٌ; and his father, ↓ مُسِيفٌ; and his mother, ↓ مِسْيَافٌ. (Ibn-'Abbád, K.) -A2- اسافهُ ا@للّٰهُ God destroyed him, or took away his life. (M.) ― -b2- اساف الخَرْزَ i. q. خَرَمَهُ [i. e. He spoiled the sewing of the skin, or hide; as when one uses a thick instrument for sewing or perforating, and a thin thong; or as when one rends two stitch-holes into one ]. (M.) And اساف الخَارِزُ The sewer of a skin, or hide, perforated, or sewed, in such a manner that the two stitch-holes became rent [ into one ]. (A'Obeyd, K.)

Derived headwords

اسافverb
  1. 1.
أَسَافَ حتّّى
مَايَشْتَكِى السَّوَافَ
اساف الوَالِدَانِ
اسافهُ ا@للّٰهُ
اساف الخَرْزَ
اساف الخَارِزُ