Lane's Lexicon (Edward Lane, 1863)

سُعَافٌ ذ A cracking, and scaling off, around the nail: (TA:) or a cracking at the root of the nail. (Ibn-'Abbád, O.) [See 1.]

سُعُوفٌ ذ Large [ drinking-cups or bowls such as are called ] أَقْدَاح. (IAar, K.) ― -b2- And The goods, or furniture and utensils, of a tent or house, (S, TA,) and its carpets or the like: or, as some say, particularly such as are held in little estimation, as the [ drinking-vessel called ] تَوْر, and the bucket, and the rope, and the like. (TA.) ― -b3- [See also سَعَفٌ, of which it is pl.] -A2- Also The natural dispositions, (AA, IAar, K, TA,) generous and other, of men: (IAar, K, TA:) AA says, I have not heard any sing. thereof. (TA.)

أَسْعَفُ ذ A camel having the disease termed سَعَفٌ (see 1): fem. سَعْفَاآءُ, applied to a she-camel: (ISk, S, K:) A'Obeyd mentions only the fem. epithet. (TA.) ― -b2- Also A horse white, (S, * K,) or hoary, (S,) in the forelock, (S, K,) when there is some other colour in it, different from the white: (TA:) when the whole of it is white, he is termed أَصْبَغُ: (S, TA:) so in the “ Book of Horses ” by AO. (TA.)

مَسْعُوفٌ ذ A boy affected with the pustules termed سَعْفَةٌ [q. v.]. (S, K.)

مُسَاعِفٌ ذ A place, (K,) and a place of alighting, (TA,) near. (K, TA.)

1 سَعَلَ ذ , aor. سَعُلَ , (S, O, Msb, K,) inf. n. سُعَالٌ (S, O, K) and سُعْلَةٌ, (K,) or the latter of these is the inf. n., and the former is a simple subst., (Msb,) [ He coughed: ] سُعْلَةٌ signifies [the having ] a motion whereby nature expels somewhat hurtful from the lungs and the organs connected therewith: (Ibn-Seenà, K, TA:) wherefore the ducts of the lungs are called قَصَبُ السُّعَالِ [ the tubes of coughing, meaning the bronchial tubes, ] because it [i. e. what is hurtful in the lungs] has its exit by them. (TA.) One says, اـِنَّهُ يَسْعُلُ سُعْلَةً مُنْكَرَةً [ Verily he coughs with an abominable coughing ]. (TA.) And بِهِ سُعْلَةٌ [ In him is a coughing; i. e. he has a coughing, or cough ]. (TA.) And أَغْصَّكَ السُّؤَالُ فَأَخَذَكَ السُّعَالُ [ The question, or petition, has choked thee, and consequently coughing has seized thee ]. (TA.) ― -b2- Hence the saying, رَمَاهُ فَسَعَلَ الدَّمَ [ He shot him, and he consequently coughed up blood ]; i. e., he threw [ up ] blood from his chest. (TA.) -A2- سَعِلَ, aor. سَعَلَ , inf. n. سَعَلٌ; accord. to the K, app., سَعَلَ, aor. سَعُلَ , inf. n. سَعْلٌ; [and thus the pret. and inf. n. are written in the copies of the K;] but the former is the right; (TA;) (assumed tropical:) He was, or became, brisk, lively, or sprightly; (K, TA;) like زَعِلَ, inf. n. زَعَلٌ. (TA. [See the part. n., سَعِلٌ, below.])

4 اسعلهُ ذ It [ made him to cough, or] occasioned him a coughing. (TA.) -A2- And (assumed tropical:) He, or it, made him, or pronounced him, to be like the سِعْلَاة [q. v.]. (O, TA.) ― -b2- And (assumed tropical:) He. (a man, K, TA,) and it, (pasture, or herbage, O, TA,) rendered him (a horse, TA) brisk, lively, or sprightly; (O, K, TA;) as also أَزْعَلَهُ. (O, TA.)

10 استسعلت ذ (tropical:) She (a woman) became a سِعْلَاة, i. e., very clamorous, and foul-tongued; (S, O;) or like a سِعْلَاة, (K, TA,) in badness, wickedness, or guile, and clamorousness, and foulness of tongue: (TA:) similar to استكلبت, and to استأسد said of a man, &c. (AZ, TA.)

سَعَلٌ ذ Dry [ dates of the bad sort termed ] شِيص. (IAar, O, K.)

سَعِلٌ ذ , applied to a horse, (assumed tropical:) Brisk, lively, or sprightly; like زَعِلٌ. (AO, O, TA.)

سِعْلَى ذ : see the next paragraph.

سِعْلَاةٌ ذ and ↓ سِعْلَاآءُ (S, O, K [app. thus, without tenween, as a fem. noun, though فِعْلَاء without tenween is unusual,]) and ↓ سِعْلَى (S, O, TA) The [ kind of goblin, demon, devil, or jinnee, called ] غُول: (K:) or the female of the غُول: (Abu-l-Wefee El-Aarábee, TA in art. غول; and Har p. 76:) or the worst, most wicked, or most guileful, of the غِيلَان [pl. of غُول]: (S, O:) or an enchantress of the jinn, or genii: (K:) pl. [of the first] سَعَالٍ [written with the article السَّعَالِى] (S, O, K) [and of the second سَعَالِىُّ] and of the third سِعْلَيَاتٌ, which is said to signify the females of the غِيلَان. (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] سِعْلَاةٌ signifies (tropical:) A very clamorous, foul-tongued, woman: (S, O, TA:) accord. to Aboo-'Adnán, a woman foul in face, evil in disposition, is likened to the سِعْلَاة: but some of the Arabs say that the Arabs do not apply the epithet سِعْلَاةٌ to any but an old woman. (TA.) ― -b3- And [the pl.] السَّعَالِى signifies (tropical:) Horses; as being likened to what are [properly] so termed. (TA.) ― -b4- And [the same pl.] السَّعَالِى, (K, TA,) with kesr to the ل, (TA,) [in the TK السَّعَالِىُّ, and in the CK ↓ السُّعالٰى,] signifies (assumed tropical:) A certain plant, the leaves of which make [ the ulcers termed ] دُبَيْلَات to discharge their contents, and dissolves them; and the fresh thereof remove the mange, or scab: it is a most excellent remedy for the cough; [wherefore it is also called حَشِيشَةُ السُّعَالِ; (TK;)] and causes the erection of the ذَكَر to subside (وَيَفُشُّ الاِنْتِصَابَ, K, TA, for which we find in some copies of the K وَنَفْسِ الاِنْتِصَابِ); even the fumigating of oneself therewith. (K.)

سِعْلَاآءُ ذ : see the next preceding paragraph.

سُعَالٌ ذ an inf. n. of سَعَلَ [q. v.]: (S, O, K:) or a simple subst. [meaning A cough ]. (Msb.)

السُّعَالٰى ذ : see سِعْلَاةٌ.

سَاعِلٌ ذ [ Coughing ]. You say نَاقَةٌ سَاعِلٌ, (O, K,) without ة, (O,) meaning A she-camel having a cough. (O, K.) ― -b2- And اـِنَّهُ لَذُو سُعَالٍ سَاعِلٍ [ Verily he has a violent cough ]: (O, K: *) a phrase having an intensive meaning: (K:) by rule one should say سُعَال مُسْعِل; but thus the Arabs said, like as they said شُغْلٌ شَاغِلٌ and شِعْرٌ شَاعِرٌ: and [in like manner] a poet cited by Lth says ذُو سَاعِلٍ. (O.) ― -b3- See also what follows.

مَسْعَلٌ ذ The part of the fauces, or throat, which is the place of coughing: (S, Msb:) or [simply] the fauces, or throat; as also ↓ سَاعِلٌ; (K) which latter is expl. by Az as meaning The mouth; because with it one coughs. (TA.)

1 سَعَى ذ , aor. يَسْعَى, inf. n. سَعْىٌ (S, Msb, K, &c.) [and مَسْعًى, agreeably with general analogy], He walked, went, or went along, (Er-Rághib, Msb, K, TA,) quickly: (Er-Rághib, Mgh, TA:) this, accord. to Er-Rághib, is the primary signification: and hence, السَّعْىُ بَيْنَ الصَّفَا وَالمَرْوَةِ [ The tripping to and fro between Es-Safà and ElMarweh ]: (TA:) and سَعَى فِى مَشْيِهِ [app. meaning He tripped along, or he trudged along, in his walking ]: (Msb:) [or] السَّعْىُ signifies the going along with vigorousness, and with lightness, activity, or quickness. (Ham p. 665.) ― -b2- He (a man, S) ran; syn. عَدَا; (IAar, S, K, TA;) or جَرَى: by the former of which is meant [ he went ] a pace below what is termed الشَّدُّ and above what is termed المَشْىُ. (IAar, TA.) ― -b3- I. q. قَصَدَ [as meaning He repaired, or betook himself ]. (K.) The saying, in the Kur [lxii. 9], فَأْسْعَوْا اـِلَى ذِكْرِ ا@ْللّٰهِ is expl. as meaning فَاقْصِدُوا [ Then repair ye to prayer to God ]: (TA:) or then go ye (فَأْمْضُوا) to prayer [ to God ]: (Jel:) and Ibn-Mes'ood read فَأْمْضُوا. (TA.) Or سَعَى اـِلَى الصَّلَاةِ means He went to prayer, in any manner [i. e. whether quickly or not ]. (Msb.) ― -b4- He was active, or busy and bustling, in procuring the means of subsistence: (TA:) he strove, laboured, or exerted himself; employed himself vigorously, strenuously, or with energy; in any affair, whether good or evil; but mostly used in relation to what is praiseworthy, or praised: (Er-Rághib, TA:) he occupied himself according to his own judgment or discretion or free will, in any work, or deed: (Msb:) he worked, or wrought, or did, (S, Msb, K, TA,) any work, or deed, good or evil: (TA:) he earned, or gained. (S, K, TA.) One says, هُوَ يَسْعَى عَلَى قَوْمِهِ He manages, conducts, orders, regulates, or superintends, the affairs of his people, or party. (Ham p. 771, Msb. *) And سَعَى لَهُمْ and عَلَيْهِمْ He worked, or wrought, and earned, or gained, for them. (TA.) And المَرْءُ يَسْعَى لِغَارَيْهِ, a prove., meaning The man earns for his belly and his pudendum. (TA.) And سَعَى المُكَاتِبُ فِى عِتْقِ رَقَبَتِهِ, (S,) or فِى فَكِ رَقَبَتِهِ, i. e. [ The slave who had made a contract with his master to pay him a certain sum for his emancipation ] laboured to earn the means of releasing himself: (Msb:) the inf. n. of the verb thus used is سعَايَةٌ: (S, Msb:) and this term is employed when a slave emancipated in part, and in part retained in slavery, labours and earns for the completion of his release. (IAth, TA.) The saying, in the Kur [liii. 40], لَيْسَ لِلْاـِنْسَانِ اـِلَّا مَا سَعَى means [ There is nothing imputable to the man ] but what he hath wrought, or done. (Msb.) And فَلَمَّا بَلَغَ مَعَهُ أْلسَّعْىَ, in the same [xxxvii. 100], means And when he attained to working with him: or and when he was able to assist him in his working. (TA.) ― -b5- Also He superintended, managed, or conducted, in his own person, the collection of the poor-rates; (K, TA;) he went to exact them, and received them; (TA;) and the inf. n. in this case also is سِعَايَةٌ: (K, TA:) or سَعَى عَلَى الصَّدَقَةِ, (S, Msb,) aor. يَسْعَى, inf. n. سَعْىٌ, (Msb,) he officiated in the exacting, or receiving, or collecting, of the poor-rate. (S, * Msb.) [And سَعَى is trans. without a prep. as meaning He exacted the poor-rate:] a poet says, (namely, 'Amr Ibn-'Addà, TA,) سَعَى عِقَالًا فَلَمْ يَتْرُكْ لَنَا سَبَدًا فَكَيْفَ لَوْ قَدْ سَعَى عَمْرٌو عِقَالَيْنِ [ He exacted the poor-rate of a year, and left not to us camels' fur, or goats' hair: then how would be the case if 'Amr had exacted the poor-rate of two years? ]. (S.) ― -b6- سَعَيْتُ فِى أَمْرِ فُلَانٍ is said when one rectifies, redresses, or reforms, the affair of such a one, or mars, vitiates, or perverts it, by his سَعْى [or striving, or labouring; and may be rendered I strove, or laboured, in respect of the affair of such a one, either to rectify, redress, or reform, it, or to mar, vitiate, or pervert, it ]: and وَا@لَّذِينَ سَعَوْا فِى اآيَاتِنَا, in the Kur xxii. 50 [and xxxiv. 5], means And they who strive, or labour, in respect of our signs, to mar, or vitiate, or pervert, their meaning, by impugning their character; seeing that they called them enchantment, and poetry, and tales, or legends, or fictions: (Ksh in xxii. 50:) or these words of the Kur mean and they who strive, or labour, to falsify, or nullify, our signs; i. e. the Kur-án. (Jel.) ― -b7- سَعَى بَيْنَهُمْ means He created, or excited, disorder, or discord, between them, or among them; made, or did, mischief between them, or among them; as also سَأَا, which is app., in this case, a dial. var. of سَعَى. (TA in art. سأو.) [Hence,] سَعَى بَيْنَ النَّاسِ بِالنَّمَائِمِ [ He created, or excited, disorder, &c., among the people by calumnies, or slanders: or it may be well rendered he busied himself among the people with propagating calumnies, or slanders ]. (S and O in art. اكل; &c.) ― -b8- And سَعَى (tropical:) He calumniated him, or slandered him, (S, Msb, K, * TA,) اـِلَى الوَالِى [ to the ruler, or magistrate ]; (S, Msb, K;) inf. n. سَعِايَةٌ. (TA.) ― -b9- سَعَتْ, said of a female slave, (K, TA,) aor. تَسْعَى, inf. n. سَعْىٌ, (TA,) She committed fornication, or prostituted herself. (K, TA.) [See also 3.] -A2- سَاعَانِى فُلَانٌ فَسَعَيْتُهُ: see 3.

3 1َاْ2َ3َ ↓ سَاعَانِى فُلَانٌ فَسَعَيْتُهُ, aor. of the latter أَسْعِيهِ, means [ Such a one strove with me in walking, or going along, quickly, &c.,] and I overcame him [ therein ]. (S, TA.) The inf. n. مُسَاعَاةٌ signifies The walking, or going, quickly [&c., or rather the striving, or contending, in doing so, ] with any one. (KL.) Hence the trad. of 'Alee, in discommendation of worldly enjoyments, مَنْ سَاعَاهَا فَاتَتْهُ, meaning مَنْ سَابَقَهَا [i. e. He who runs a race with them, they evade him, or escape his pursuit ]. (TA.) ― -b2- مُسَاعَاةٌ also signifies One's committing fornication with a female slave: and a female slave's committing fornication with any one: (KL:) you say, of a man, زَنَى and عَهَرَ, and this is with a free woman and with a female slave; but one says in the case of a female slave, peculiarly, قَدْ سَاعَاهَا [ He has committed fornication with her ]; مُسَاعَاةٌ not being with any but with female slaves: thus in a trad., اـِمَاآءٌ سَاعَيْنَ فِى الجَاهِلِيَّةِ [ Female slaves that committed fornication in the Time of Ignorance ]: and أُتِىَ عُمَرَ بِرَجُلٍ سَاعَى أَمَةً [ There was brought to 'Omar a man who committed fornication with a female slave ]: (S, TA: *) [and hence, وَلَدُ المُسَاعَاةِ (occurring in the L, in art. بهث, as mentioned by IAar on the authority of Abu-l-Mekárim), meaning The offspring of fornication, begotten on a slave: ] or ساعاها, (K, TA,) inf. n. as above, (TA,) signifies [or rather signifies also] He sought her for the purpose of fornication: (K, [in which the context seems to indicate that it relates to a female slave,] and TA:) accord. to Th, relating to the free woman and the female slave: it is also said that مُسَاعَاةُ المَرْأَةِ signifies The imposing upon the woman, by her owner, an impost which she is to pay by means of [ the gain of ] prostitution: and it is said in a trad. that there shall be no مُسَاعَاة in El-Islám. (TA.) -A2- [It is said in the TA in art. ربع, that مُسَاعَاةٌ from السَّاعَةُ is like مَُشَاهَرَةٌ from الشَّهْرُ and مُرَابَعَةٌ from الرَّبِيعُ &c.; but I think that مساعاة in this instance is a mistranscription for مُسَاوَعَةٌ: see art. سوع.]

4 اسعاهُ ذ signifies جَعَلَهُ يَسْعَى, (K, TA,) i. e. He made him to earn, or gain. (TA.) ― -b2- And اسعى عَلَى صَدَقَاتِهِمْ He employed a collector of their poor-rates. (TA.) [See also 10.] ― -b3- And أَسْعَوْا بِهِ They gave him, or performed or accomplished for him, what he desired, or sought, or needed. (Sgh, K, TA.)

10 استسعى العَبْدَ ذ (S, Msb, K) فِى قِيمَتِهِ (S, Msb) He required of the slave that he should labour to earn the means of releasing himself: (Msb:) or he imposed upon the slave work by means of which he should pay for himself, when he had been emancipated in part, in order to his completing his emancipation: and ↓ سِعَايَةٌ signifies the work so imposed. (K.) ― -b2- And استسعاهُ He employed him as collector of the poor-rate. (JM; and the like is said in the TA, from a trad.) [See also 4.]

سَعْوٌ ذ : see the next paragraph, in two places: -A2- and see also سَعْوَةٌ.

سِعْوٌ ذ , with kesr, (T, S, TA,) [and ↓ سَعْوٌ, with fet-h, as shown by what follows,] or ↓ سِعْوَةٌ, with kesr, (K,) or ↓ سَعْوَةٌ, thus written in the M, with fet-h, (TA,) and ↓ سِعْوَاآءٌ, (T, S, ISd, K, [Freytag found this last written in a copy of the S سَعْوَاء, and in one of my copies of the S it is written سِعَاوَى,]) which is said to be masc., (TA,) [and therefore with tenween, accord. to a general rule applying to ns. of the measure فِعْلَاآء,] and ↓ سُعْوَاآءٌ, (IAar, Sgh, K,) A [ portion, or short portion, such as is termed ] سَاعَة, (S, M, K, &c.,) of the night: (S, M, TA:) [like سِهْوَاآءٌ, q. v.:] one says, مَضَى مِنَ اللَّيْلِ سِعْوٌ, (S, TA,) and ↓ سَعْوٌ, with fet-h as well as with kesr, (TA, and thus in the Ham p. 708,) and ↓ سَعْوَةٌ, with fet-h, (TA,) [or ↓ سِعْوَةٌ,] and ↓ سِعْوَاآءٌ, (S,) [and ↓ سُعْوَاآءٌ,] A portion (قِطْعَةٌ) of the night passed; (TA;) [or a short portion: ] and سِهْوٌ مِنَ اللَّيْلِ signifies the same: (Ham p. 708:) or, as some say, ↓ سعواآء signifies more than a ساعة, of the night, and likewise of the day; and one says, كُنَّا عِنْدَهُ فِى سِعْوَاوَاتٍ مِنَ اللَّيْلِ and النَّهَارِ [app. meaning We were with him, or at his abode, during some considerable portions of the night and of the day ]: so in the T. (TA.)

سَعْىٌ ذ inf. n. of 1 [in most of its senses]. (S, Msb, K, &c.) -A2- See also سَعْيَةُ.

سَعَاةٌ ذ The occupation of oneself according to his own judgment or discretion or free will (K, TA) in procuring the means of subsistence, and in earning, or gain. (TA.) Hence the prov., شَغَلَتْ سَعَاتِى جَدْوَاىَ [ My occupation of myself in procuring the means of subsistence has diverted me from giving ]: El-Mundhiree says that شِعَابِى, with ش, is a mistranscription: it is applied to him whose disposition is generous but who is in want. (TA. [See also art. شعب.])

سَعْوَةٌ ذ : see سِعْوٌ, in two places. -A2- Also i. q. شَمْعَةٌ or شَمَعَةٌ [i. e. A piece of wax, or a candle ]: (IAar, TA:) in the K, السمعة is erroneously put for الشمعة: [so in the TA; but it is omitted in the CK and in my MS. copy of the K:] pl. [or rather coll. gen. n.] ↓ سَعْوٌ. (TA.)

سِعْوَةٌ ذ : see سِعْوٌ, in two places. -A2- Also, [accord. to the K, سِعْوَةٌ, for it is there written with the article ال, but] accord. to IAar without the article ال, [app. سِعْوَةُ, as a proper name,] (TA,) A woman foul, unseemly, or obscene, in tongue; having little, or no, shame or modesty: (IAar, K, * TA:) الخَالِعَةُ in the K is a mistranscription for الجَالِعَةُ, with جِيم. (TA.)

سَعْيَةُ ذ a proper name for The she-goat. (K.) And she is called to be milked by the cry ↓ سَعْى سَعْيَه. (TA.)

سِعْوَاآءٌ ذ and سُعْوَاآءٌ: see سِعْوٌ, in five places.

سِعَايَةٌ ذ an inf. n. of سَعَى, in three of its senses. ― -b2- See also 10.

سُعَاوِىٌّ ذ One who patiently endures sleeplessness and travel: (K:) very laborious, active, and bustling. (TA.)

سَاعٍ ذ act. part. n. of 1. (Msb.) A messenger; a courier, or messenger that journeys with haste; or a messenger on a beast of the post; syn. بَرِيدٌ. (TA.) [See an ex. at the end of the first paragraph of art. ريم.] ― -b2- Any manager, conductor, orderer, regulator, or superintendent, (S, K,) of a thing, over a people, or party, (S,) or of an affair, and of a people, or party, whatever it be: (K:) pl. سُعَاةٌ. (S, * TA.) Mostly, (S, TA,) or when used without restriction, (Msb,) applied to The intendant, or collector, of the poor-rate: pl. as above. (S, Msb, TA. [See رَكِيبٌ.]) And particularly The headman of the Jews and Christians, (K, TA,) from whose opinion, or judgment, they do not deviate, and without whom they do not decide an affair. (TA.) And [the pl.] سُعَاةٌ signifies Persons who take upon themselves responsibility for the prevention of the shedding of blood, and for the stilling of sedition, or discord, or the like; because they labour in the reforming, or amending, of the circumstances subsisting between parties. (TA.) ― -b3- Also A calumniator, or slanderer; [and especially] to the ruler, or magistrate: whence the saying, in a trad., السَّاعِى لِغَيْرِ رِشْدَةٍ The calumniator is not trueborn: and in another trad., السَّاعِى مُثَلِتٌ [ The calumniator of another to the ruler is a trebler of evil]; meaning that he destroys, by his calumny, himself, and the calumniated, and the ruler. (TA.)

مَسْعًى ذ , syn. with سَعْىٌ, [an inf. n. of سَعَى,] signifying The act of running, and working, and earning or gaining, [&c., when used as a simple subst.,] has for its pl. مَسَاعٍ. (Har p. 384.)

مَسْعاةٌ ذ A means of attaining honour and eminence or elevation, in the various kinds of glory; (K;) a good, or laudable, act or endeavour; generosity: pl. مَسَاعٍ. (MA.) [See an ex. voce مَدْعَاةٌ, and another voce أَقْعَدَ.] J says, [in the S,] المَسْعَاةُ وَاحِدَةُ المَسَاعِى فِى الكَلَامِ وَالجُودِ: and the author of the K, following Sgh, says that he has committed a mistake in saying فِى الكَلَامِ instead of فِى الكَرَمِ: in some copies of the S is found فِى الكَرَمِ; but this is an emendation: the original reading is فِى الكَلَامِ: which, however, should be termed a slip of the pen [rather than a mistake, for it cannot be that J was ignorant of the meaning of so common a word as مَسْعَاةٌ]. (TA.)

مَسْعِىٌّ بِهِ ذ Calumniated, or slandered, [and especially] to a ruler, or magistrate. (TA.)

1 سَغِبَ ذ , aor. سَغَبَ ; (S A, Msb, K;) and سَغَبَ, aor. سَغُبَ ; (A, K;) inf. n. سَغَبٌ, (S, A, * Msb, K,) which is of the former, (Sudot;, Msb, TA,) and سَغْبٌ, (K,) which is of the latter, (TA,) and سُغُوبٌ (K) and سَغَابَةٌ and مَسْغَبَةٌ, (A, * K,) the last syn. with مَجَاعَةٌ; (S, Msb;) He was, or became, hungry: (S, A, Msb, K:) or suffered hunger together with fatigue. (A, Msb, K.) You say, بِهِ سَغَبٌ and مَسْغَبَةٌ and سَغَابَةٌ, [using these ns. as simple substs.,] In him is hunger: or hunger together with fatigue. (A.) And يَتِيمٌ ذُو مَسْغَبَةٍ [ An orphan ] having hunger. (S.) And فِى يَوْمٍ ذِى مَسْغَبَةٍ, in the Kur [xc. 14], means In a day of hunger. (TA.) [See also سَغْبَةٌ and سَغَبٌ below.]

4 اسغب ذ He (a man, TA) entered upon a state of hunger. (K.)

سَغَبٌ ذ an inf. n. of سَغِبَ [q. v.]. (S, &c.) ― -b2- It also signifies Thirst: but is unused: (K:) [or] thirst is sometimes thus termed. (Msb.)

سَغِبٌ ذ : see سَاغِبٌ.

سَغْبَةٌ ذ Hunger: or hunger combined with fatigue. (TA.) [See also 1.]

سَغْبَانُ ذ ; and its fem., سَغْبَى: see the next paragraph, in three places.

سَاغِبٌ ذ and ↓ سَغْبَانُ (S, A, Msb, K) and ↓ سَغِبٌ (K) Hungry: (S, A, Msb, K, TA:) or suffering hunger together with fatigue: (A, Msb, K:) or thirsty: (TA:) fem. [of the second] ↓ سَغْبَى, (S, K,) pl. سِغَابٌ. (K.) You say also, هُوَ سَاغِبٌ لَاغِبٌ (A, TA) and لَغْبَانُ ↓ سَغْبَانُ (TA) [ He is hungry and fatigued, or fatigued in the utmost degree ]. And it is said in a trad., دَخَلَ خَيْبَرَ وَهُمْ ↓ مُسْغِبُونَ, expl. as meaning [ He entered Kheyber ] they being hungry. (TA.)

مُسْغِبٌ ذ : see its pl. in what next precedes.

هُوَ مُسَغَّبٌ لَهُ كَذَا ذ and مَسَعَّبٌ [the latter written in the CK مُسْغَبٌ] To him is allowed, or permitted, such a thing. (K, TA.)

1 سَفَّ ذ , (A'Obeyd, Az, S, M, K,) aor. سَفُ3َ , inf. n. سَفُّ; (S, TA;) and ↓ اسفّ, (A'Obeyd, S, M, K,) inf. n. اـِسْفَافٌ; (TA;) He wove (A'Obeyd, Az, S, M, Z, K) with his fingers (Z, TA) [or plaited ] a mat, (A'Obeyd, TA,) or palm-leaves, (Az, S, M, K,) and any other thing that may be woven with the fingers; (TA;) like رَمَلَ and أَرْمَلَ. (A'Obeyd, TA.) -A2- سَفَّ (Lth, O, K) عَلَى وَجْهِ الأرْضِ, (Lth, O,) [aor. سَفُ3َ accord. to the TK, but more probably سَفِ3َ , agreeably with a general rule relating to intrans. verbs of this class,] inf. n. سَفِيفٌ, He (a bird) went along upon the surface of the earth. (Lth, O, K.) [See also 4.] -A3- سَفِفْتُ, (S, M, Mgh, * Msb, K,) third pers. سَفَّ, (Mgh,) aor. أَسَفُّ, (Msb, TA,) inf. n. سَفٌّ; (M, Msb, K;) and ↓ اِسْتَفَفْتُ; (S, M, Msb, K; [in one of my copies of the S, erroneously, أَسْفَفْتُ;]) I took [ into my mouth ], (S, K,) or ate, (Mgh, Msb,) medicine, (S, M, Mgh, Msb, K,) and meal of parched barley or wheat, (S, M, Mgh,) and the like of either of these, (M,) or anything dry, (Mgh, Msb,) not moistened, (S, Msb, K,) and not kneaded [ with water &c. ]; (S;) or i. q. قَمِحْتُ, (M, K, TA,) which signifies as above, (TA,) or I took it in the palm of my hand, (A and L in art. قمح,) and conveyed it to my mouth, (A in that art.,) or licked it up: (L in that art.:) and ↓ سَفَّةٌ signifies the doing thus once. (TA.) And [hence,] سَفٌّ signifies also Camels' eating dry herbage. (K.) Hence the saying of 'Amr Ibn-Kulthoom, تَسَفُّ الجِلَّةُ الخُورُ الدَّرِينَا The she-camels advanced in age, abounding with milk, eating the [ dry and ] old and wasted herbage. (Mgh. [See EM p. 208: and the same, p. 224.]) Hence also the phrase, لَأَنْ أَسَفَّ التُّرَابَ Assuredly that I should eat the dust. (Mgh.) ― -b2- And سَفِفْتُ المَاآءَ, (M, K,) aor. أَسَفُّ, inf. n. سَفٌّ, (TA,) I drank much of the water without satisfying my thirst: (M, K:) and so سَفِتُّهُ, aor. أَسْفَتُهُ, inf. n. سَفْتٌ. (TA.) ― -b3- سُفَّ الرَّمَادُ فِى وَجْهِهِ: see 4.

4 اسفّ ذ : see 1, first sentence. ― -b2- [Hence,] أَسْفَفْتُ الشَّىْءَ, inf. n. اـِسْفَافٌ, I stuck one part of the thing to another. (Yz, TA.) ― -b3- [And from the same signification, as is indicated in the O and TA,] اسّف النَّظَرَ (tropical:) He looked sharply, (S, M, A, O, K,) and hardly, (S, O,) and minutely, (A,) towards, or at, (اـِلَى,) a person, (S, A, O,) and an affair, (A,) and AAF adds, and inclined towards the ground. (M.) -A2- Also He fed a camel with dry herbage. (K.) ― -b2- [Hence,] اسفّ الفَرَسَ اللِجَامَ (assumed tropical:) He put the bit into the mouth of the horse. (Moheet, L, K.) ― -b3- And اسفّ الدَّوَاآءَ (assumed tropical:) He stuffed the wound with the medicament: (M:) or اسفّ الجُرْحَ دَوَاآءً (tropical:) he put a medicament into the wound; (K, TA;) as though he put سَفُوف to it. (TA.) ― -b4- And اسفّ الوَشْمَ نَؤُورًا (assumed tropical:) He filled in the tattoo with نؤور [i. e. smoke-black of fat ]. (M.) ― -b5- And أُسِفَّ وَجْهُهُ النَّؤُورَ (assumed tropical:) His face was sprinkled with نؤور. (S.) It is said in a trad., فَكَأَنَّمَا أُسِفَّ وَجْهُهُ, meaning (assumed tropical:) His face was altered, (S, K, *) as though something that altered it had been sprinkled upon it. (S.) You say also, كَأَنَّ وَجْهَهُ أُسِفَّ رَمَادًا, meaning (assumed tropical:) His face became of a blackish, or an ashy, hue, altered, as though ashes had been sprinkled upon it: and ↓ سُفَّ الرَّمَادُ فِى وَجْهِهِ (assumed tropical:) [ Ashes were sprinkled upon his face ], meaning his face became altered. (Har p. 626.) -A3- Also It approached the earth, or ground; (S, M, K;) said of a bird in its flight; (S, K;) or of a bird &c.: (M:) or it (a bird) flew over the ground so near that its feet almost reached it. (A.) And اسفّت السَّحَابَةُ The cloud approached the earth. (S, K.) ― -b2- Said of a stallion, He stooped his head to bite. (M, K.) And one says of man, اسفّ مِنَ الأَرْضِ [and اـِلَى الارض He stooped towards the ground ]. (O in art. شب.) ― -b3- And, said of a man, (S,) (assumed tropical:) He pursued small, or little, things: (S, K:) and (assumed tropical:) he followed after low, or mean, things: (K:) [(assumed tropical:) he stooped to such things: ] or اسفّ اـِلَى مَدَاقِ الأُمُورِ وَ أَلَائِمِهَا (assumed tropical:) He approached [or pursued ] small, or little, things, and the meanest, or most ignoble, thereof; or became mean, or ignoble: (M, * TA:) and اسفّ لِلْأَمْرِ الدَّنِىّ, [or correctly الدَّنِىْءِ,] and اـِلَيْهِ, (assumed tropical:) He approached [ the thing that was near, or that was low, or mean ]; from اسفّ said of a bird in its flight, meaning It approached the ground so that its feet almost touched it. (Har p. 206.) [Hence the saying,] تَحَفَّظْ مِنْ الغَمَلِ السَّفْسَافِ وَلَاتُسِفَّ لَهُ بَعْضَ لاـِسْفَافِ (tropical:) [ Guard thyself from the bad action, and approach it not with any degree of approaching ]. (TA.) ― -b4- You say also, مَاأَسَفَّ مِنْهُ بِتَافِهٍ He obtained not [ from him, or of it, a paltry acquisition ], (K, TA,) [or] anything. (TA.) ― -b5- And اسفّ He fled from his companion, (K, TA,) running most vehemently. (TA.)

8 اـِسْتَفَ3َ see 1.

R. Q. 1 سَفْسَفَ ذ , (K,) inf. n. سَفْسَفَةٌ, (S, M,) He cleared, or sifted, (اِنْتَخَلَ,) flour, (S, M, K,) and the like, (S, K,) with the مُنْخُل [or sieve], and the like. (L, TA.) One says, سَمِعْتُ سَفْسَفَةَ المُنْخُلِ [ I heard the sifting of the sieve ]. (TA.) ― -b2- And سَفْسَفَ عَمَلَهُ (tropical:) He did his deed imperfectly, or not soundly. (IDrd, M, K, TA.) ― -b3- And سَفْسَفَتِ الرِيحُ The wind raised the fine dust, blowing a little above the surface of the earth. (TA.)

R. Q. 2 لَا تَزَالُ تَتَسَفْسَفُ فِى هٰذَا الأَمْرِ ذ a phrase mentioned by Ibn-'Abbád as meaning Thou wilt not cease to destroy, or bring to nought, this thing, or affair. (O, TA.)

سَفْ ذ , with the ف quiescent, i. q. سَوْفَ; as in the phrase سَفْ تَفْعَلُ [ Thou wilt do such a thing]: mentioned by Th. (M. [See art. سوف; and see also the letter س.])