Lane's Lexicon (Edward Lane, 1863)

سَفٌّ ذ , accord. to the K, or ↓ سِفٌّ, with kesr, accord. to Sgh, [in the O,] (TA,) A spadix, or a spathe, (طَلْعَة) of a male palm-tree. (AA, O, K) ― -b2- See also سِفُّ.

سُفٌّ ذ : see what next follows.

سِفٌّ ذ and ↓ سُفٌّ, (O, K,) or the former and ↓ سَفٌّ, (so in a copy of the M,) The serpent called أَرْقَم: (AA, O, K:) or the serpent that flies (M, O, K) in the air: (M, O:) and sometimes peculiarly applied to the أَرْقَم: (M:) or the male serpent. (O.) And the Hudhalee poet EdDákhil Ibn-Harám uses the first of these words as meaning (assumed tropical:) A man like a سِفّ. (M.) ― -b2- See also سَفٌّ.

سَفَّةٌ ذ [an inf. n. un.]: see 1.

سُفَّةٌ ذ A plait of palm-leaves, (M, K, TA,) i. e. a ↓ سَفِيفَة, (TA,) made according to the measure of the زَبِيل or the جُلَّة [ of which it is to form a part ]. (K, TA.) ― -b2- And A thing of the kind termed قَرَامِلُ [pl. of قِرْمِلٌ], (K, TA,) [i. e. a plait ] of [ goat's ] hair, or of wool, (TA,) which a woman attaches to her [ plaits of ] hair: it was not disapproved by Ibráheem En-Nakha'ee; (K, TA;) though he disapproved of other things attached to the hair: IAth explains it as a thing that a woman puts upon her head, and attaches to her hair in order that it may be lengthened [ thereby ]. (TA.) -A2- A small portion, (حَبَّةٌ,) and (S) a handful, (S, K,) of meal of parched barley or wheat, (S,) or of wheat, and the like. (K.) ― -b2- See also what next follows.

سَفُوفٌ ذ Medicine, (S, M, Msb, K,) and meal of parched barley or wheat, (S, M,) and the like of either of these, (M,) or anything dry, (Msb,) taken [ into the mouth ], (S, M, * K,) or eaten, (Msb,) not moistened, (S, M, * Msb, K,) or not kneaded [ with water &c. ]; (S;) and ↓ سُفَّةٌ signifies the same; (M, K;) each a subst. from سَفِفْتُ السَّوِيقَ and الدَّوَاآءَ &c. (M.) -A2- Also Blackness of the gum. (M, TA.)

سَفِيفٌ ذ Woven [ with the fingers, or plaited, ] of palm-leaves. (KL.) ― -b2- [And hence,] The girth of the رَحْل [or camel's saddle ], (S, M, K,) and of the [ women's vehicle called ] هَوْدَج: (M:) the fore-girth of the رَحْل; because made broad, like the سَفِيف of palm-leaves. (T, TA.) [See also the next paragraph.] -A2- A certain plant. (IDrd, K.) -A3- The sharpness of the ears of the wolf. (M, TA.) -A4- And السَّفِيفُ is A name of Iblees: (O, K:) so says AA: (O:) in one or more of the copies of the “ Nawádir, ” ↓ السَّفْسَفُ. (TA.)

سَفِيفَةٌ ذ A thing woven [ with the fingers, or plaited, ] of palm-leaves: (S, O:) a piece of woven [or plaited ] work of palm-leaves (K voce عَرَقٌ) &c.: (TA ibid.:) pl. سَفَائِفُ. (TA.) See سُفَّةٌ, first sentence. ― -b2- A wide belly-girth with which a رَحْل [or camel's saddle ] is bound, or fastened. (M.) [See also سَفِيفٌ.] ― -b3- The appertenance [or suspensory ] of a water-skin (قِرْبَة), which the carrier of the قربة puts over his chest [ when carrying the قربة on his back ]. (K voce عَرَقٌ.) ― -b4- See also جُمَانٌ. ― -b5- A [ receptacle for dates, such as is called ] دَوْخَلَّة, [ made of palmleaves, ] before it is woven. (M, TA.) ― -b6- And [the pl.] سَفَائِفُ signifies Wide ribs: or, as some say, all the ribs. (M.)

سَفْسَفٌ ذ A certain plant; (M, TA;) said by IDrd to be of the dial. of El-Yemen; that which the people of Nejd call the عَنْقَز, which is the مَرْزَنْجُوش [or marjoram ]. (TA.) -A2- See also سَفِيفٌ.

سَفْسَافٌ ذ The dust of flour, that rises, (K,) or flies and rises, (TA,) at the sifting. (K, TA.) ― -b2- The fine particles or dust: (S, Mgh, K:) or such as rises, or spreads, of dust. (M.) ― -b3- Hence, (Mgh,) سَفْسَافُ الشِعْرِ (Mgh, K) (assumed tropical:) What is bad of poetry, (K, TA,) imperfectly, or unsoundly, done. (TA. [In the CK, الشَّعَرِ is erroneously put for الشِعْرِ; and Freytag appears to have read الشَّعِيرِ.]) سَفْسَافٌ signifies (assumed tropical:) Bad poetry: and (assumed tropical:) anything imperfectly, or unsoundly, done. (M.) Anything bad. (S, K. [Compare the Hebr. אֲסַפְסֻף occurring with the article, and with the quiescent, in Numbers xi. 4.]) (assumed tropical:) Such as is bad of natural dispositions. (M.) And (assumed tropical:) A contemptible, or despicable, thing or affair. (S, K.) It is said in a trad., اـِنَّ ا@للّٰهَ يُحِبُّ مَعَالِىَ الأَمُورِ وَ يُبْغِضُ سَفْسَافَهَا, (S, M, Mgh, TA,) or يَكْرَهُ سَفْسَافَهَا, (S, TA,) i. e. (assumed tropical:) [ Verily God loves lofty things, or things whereby one acquires eminence or nobility, and ] hates paltry, and mean, things. (Mgh, Sgh, TA.)

سَفْسَافٌ ذ signifies [also] (assumed tropical:) An action, and a saying, in which is no good. (Ham p. 232; where the foregoing trad. is cited as an ex.) And (assumed tropical:) Any bad wind: (TA:) [or] سَفْسَافَةٌ signifies a wind running a little above the ground; and so ↓ مُسَفْسِفَةٌ: (M:) or the latter, a wind that raises the fine dust, and runs a little above the ground. (S, K.) ― -b2- حَلِفٌ سَفْسَافٌ (tropical:) A false, or lying, swearing, in which is no ratification. (TA.)

سُفَاسِفٌ ذ Vehement hunger. (Ibn-'Abbád, K.)

مُسِفٌّ ذ [act. part. n. of 4, q. v.]. ― -b2- Anything cleaving, or sticking, to another thing. (A'Obeyd, TA.) ― -b3- مَرَّ مُسِفًّا He passed by fleeing from his companion, running most vehemently. (Ibn- 'Abbád, TA.)

مُسَفْسِفَةٌ ذ : see سَفْسَافٌ, last sentence but one. -A2- Also, without the ة, (tropical:) Ungenerous, or mean, in giving. (S, M.)

1 سَفَحَ ذ , (S, A, Msb, K,) aor. سَفَحَ , (Msb, K,) inf. n. سَفْحٌ, (Msb,) [and app. سُفُوحٌ also, mentioned in what follows,] He poured out, or forth, water: (S, A:) and he shed blood, (S, A, Msb, K,) the blood of another; (S, A;) and tears; (Msb, K;) inf. n. as above, and سُفُوحٌ: (K:) or سَفَحَتِ العَيْنُ دَمْعَهَا [ the eye shed its tears ]. (A.) The saying, in a trad., فَقَتَلَ عَلَىرَأْسِ المَاآءِ حَتَّى سَفَحَ الدَّمُ المَاآءَ has been explained as meaning [ And he slew at the head of the water so that ] the blood covered the water: but IAth says that this is not consistent with the language; for سَفْحٌ signifies the act of “ pouring out, or forth; ” and that the meaning may therefore be, that the blood made the water to pour forth; like as when, into a full vessel, something heavier than what is in it is poured; for in this case there comes forth from it as much as has been poured into it. (TA.) ― -b2- سُفِحَ فِى الأَرضِ (assumed tropical:) [ He was stretched, or extended, upon the ground ], said of a camel. (K.) -A2- The verb is also used intransitively; you say, سَفَحَ المَاآءُ, (Msb,) and الدَّمْعُ, inf. n. سُفُوحٌ and سَفَحَانٌ (O, K) and سَفْحٌ, (K,) The water, (Msb,) and the tears, (O, K,) poured out, or forth. (O, Msb, K.)

2 سفّح ذ , inf. n. تَسْفِيحٌ, (assumed tropical:) He did a deed that profited him not; (K;) likened to the arrow called السَّفِح. (TA.)

3 سَاْفَحَ [سافحهُ, inf. n. سِفَاحٌ, and perhaps مُسَافَحَةٌ also, He contended with him in the shedding of blood. ] You say, بَيْنَهُمْ سِفَاحٌ Between them is a shedding of blood. (TA.) ― -b2- And [hence,] بَيْنَهُمَا سِفَاحٌ (tropical:) Between them two is a contending in fight: or, in hocking [ of camels ] (مُعَاقَرَة). (A, TA.) ― -b3- And سِفَاحٌ and مُسَافَحَةٌ also signify (tropical:) The committing fornication with another; (S, A, Msb, K;) لِأَنَّ المَاآءَ يُصَبُّ ضَائِعًا; (Msb;) as also ↓ تَسَافُحٌ [which is said of more than one pair]. (K.) You say, سَافَحَهَا (tropical:) He committed fornication with her. (A, Msb.) And سَافَحَتْةُ (tropical:) She committed fornication with him: (L:) or she abode with him in the practice of fornication. (TA.) [In all the copies of the S that I have been able to consult, three in number, I find سَافَحَهُ.] And فِى النِكَاحِ غُنْيَةٌ عَنِ السِفَاحِ (tropical:) [ In marriage is that which renders one in no need of fornication ]. (A, Msb.) In the Time of Ignorance, when a man demanded a woman in marriage, he said, اِنْكِحِينِى; and when he desired fornication, he said, سَافِحِينِى. (TA.)

4 أَجْرَوْا اـِسْفَاحًا ذ (assumed tropical:) They made [horses] to run without a wager. (K.) [App., like 2, from السَّفِيحُ, the arrow thus called.]

[ 5 تَسَفَّحَ تسفّحaccord. to Freytag, signifies It was, or became, poured out, or forth: but he names no authority for this.]

6 تسافحوا الدِمَاآءَ ذ [ They mutually shed blood; lit., bloods ]. (A.) ― -b2- See also 3.

سَفْحٌ ذ The base, foot, bottom, or lowest or lower part, (أَصْل, K, or أَسْفَل, S, A, K,) of a mountain, (S, A, K,) which is the part whereinto is poured (يُسْفَحُ) the water [ from the parts above ]; i. e. the part where the side thereof rests upon the ground: (S: [as also صَفْحٌ:]) or the [ part called ] عَرْض thereof, [see this word,] that rests its side upon the ground: or the حَضِيض [app. as meaning the low ground at, or by, the base, or foot, ] thereof: (K:) or the spreading part thereof: (A: [there said to be in this sense tropical; but why, I see not:]) or the face thereof: (Msb:) or the lowest, or lower, part thereof, where it is rugged: (Ham p. 80:) pl. سُفُوحٌ. (K.) ― -b2- [The pl.] سُفُوحٌ also signifies Rocks that are soft, or smooth, (K, TA,) and slippery. (TA.)

سَفُوحٌ ذ : see سَافِحٌ. You say جَفْنٌ سَفُوحٌ [ An eyelid shedding copious tears ]. (A.)

سَفِيحٌ ذ A sack; syn. جُوَالِقٌ: (K:) سَفِيحَانِ signifies a pair of sacks which are placed (S, L) upon a camel, (L,) like the خُرْج. (S, L.) ― -b2- And A thick, or coarse, [ garment of the kind called ] كِسَاآء. (O, K.) ― -b3- السَّفِيحُ [incorrectly written by Freytag سَفِيحة, as on the authority of the S,] is the name of An arrow used in the game called المَيْسِر, to which no portion pertains: (S, A, * K:) it is the fourth of the arrows to which the term غُفْل is applied, which have no notches, and to which is assigned no portion and no fine; these being added only to give additional weight to the collection of arrows from fear of occasioning suspicion [of foul play]: the first of them is called المُصَدَّرُ; the next, المُضَعَّفُ; the next, المَنِيحُ; and the next, السَّفِيحُ. (Lh, TA.) ― -b4- See also مُسَافِحٌ.

سَفَّاحٌ ذ A shedder of much blood. (A.) [Hence,] السَّفَّاحُ is the name of A sword of Homeyd Ibn-Bahdal. (K.) ― -b2- [Hence also,] (assumed tropical:) A giver of many gifts; or one who gives much. (K.) ― -b3- And (assumed tropical:) Chaste [or rather fluent or eloquent ] in speech; syn. فَصِيحٌ: (K:) or possessing ability for speech. (S.)

سَافِحٌ ذ Pouring out, or forth; (O, L, Msb, K;) applied to water, (A, Msb,) [and blood,] and tears (دَمْعٌ): (O, L, K:) [accord. to some, unacquainted with the intrans. verb سَفَحَ, a possessive epithet, i. e.] meaning ذُو سَفْحٍ: (Ham p. 709:) syn. with ↓ سَفُوحٌ, [or rather this is an intensive epithet,] and ↓ مَسْفُوحٌ also is syn. with سَفُوحٌ; (TA;) or [rather] signifies poured out, or forth; (A, * L, Msb;) and is applied to water, (A, Msb,) and tears (دَمْعٌ). (L.)

أَسْفَحُ ذ (assumed tropical:) Bald in the fore part of the head; (K;) as also أَسْقَحُ (TA) [and أَصْقَحُ].

[ مَسْفَحٌ ذ A place where water is poured out, or forth; and where blood, and tears, are shed: pl. مَسَافِحُ.] One says, لِلْوَادِى مَسَافِحُ The valley has places where it pours out, or forth. (A, TA.)

مُسَفِحٌ ذ (assumed tropical:) One who does a deed that profits him not. (K. [See 2.])

مَسْفُوحٌ ذ : see سَافِحٌ. ― -b2- [Hence,] applied to a camel, it means قَدْ سُفِحَ فِى الأَرْضِ وَمُدَّ (assumed tropical:) [ Stretched, or extended, upon the ground; وَمُدَّ being an explicative adjunct]. (K.) ― -b3- (assumed tropical:) Wide. (K.) You say نَاقَةٌ مَسْفُوحَةُ الاـِبْطِ (tropical:) A she-camel wide in the arm-pit. (A, K.) And جَمَلٌ مَسْفُوحُ الضُّلُوعِ (tropical:) A camel [ wide i. e.] not contracted in the ribs. (A, TA.) ― -b4- (assumed tropical:) Thick, coarse, or big. (K.) ― -b5- You say also, اـِنَّهُ لَمَسْفُوحُ العُنُقِ, meaning (assumed tropical:) Verily he is long, and thick, coarse, or big, in the neck. (TA.) ― -b6- And المَسْفُوحُ is the name of (assumed tropical:) A horse of Sakhr Ibn-'Amr Ibn-El-Hárith. (K.)

مُسَافِحٌ ذ (assumed tropical:) A fornicator. (TA.) And مُسَافِحَةٌ (assumed tropical:) A fornicatress; (TA;) a woman who does not abstain from fornication. (Aboo-Is-hák, TA.) اِبْنُ مُسَافِحَةٍ means (assumed tropical:) A son of a fornicatress; (TA;) and [in like manner] ↓ سَفِيحٌ a son who is the offspring of fornication. (Sgh, TA in art. عرض.)

1 سَفِدَ ذ and سَفَدَ , (S,) or سَفِدَ عَلَى الأُنْثَى and [عَلَيْهَا] سَفَدَ, (K,) or سَفِدَهَا (M, Msb) and سَفَدَهَا, (M, A,) aor. of the former سَفَدَ , (S, M, Msb, K,) and of the latter سَفِدَ , (M, K,) inf. n. سِفَادٌ (S, M, Msb) and سَفْدٌ, which are of both the verbs; (M;) and ↓ سَافَدَهَا, inf. n. سِفَادٌ; (A;) He leaped the female: (S, K:) said of a bird, (A, Msb,) &c.; (Msb;) or of any beast or bird of prey; (As, TA;) or of a quadruped and of a bird; (M, TA;) or of a goat (S, TA) and of a camel (As, S, TA) and of a bull and of a beast of prey and of a bird; (S, TA;) and, in poetry, of a swimmer [app. meaning a fish]: (M, TA:) sometimes, also, it is used to convey an allusion to الجِمَاع [relating to human beings]. (A.)

2 تَسْفِيدُ اللَّحْمِ ذ (assumed tropical:) The arranging of the flesh- meat upon the سَفُّود, to roast: (K:) Z [app.] makes it tropical, by his derivation of سَفُّودٌ [q. v.]. (TA.)

3 سَاْفَدَ see 1: ― -b2- and see also 6.

4 اسفدهُ ذ He made him to leap [the female]. (S, * K, * PS, TK.) ― -b2- أَسْفِدْنِى تَيْسَكَ, mentioned by Lh, means Lend me thy he-goat in order that he may leap my she-goat: and Umeiyeh Ibn-Abi-s-Salt uses its pass. part. n. metaphorically in relation to the زَنْد [or piece of stick used for producing fire]; saying, وَالأَرْضُ صَيَّرَهَا الاـِلٰهُ طَرُوقَةً ↓ لِلْمَاآءِ حَتَّى كُلُّ زَنْدٍ مُسْفَدُ [ And the land, God made it to be soaked by the water, so that every زند was lent; no man being able to go far enough to cut one for himself]. (M, TA.)

5 تسفّد فَرَسَهُ ذ He mounted his mare from behind; (M;) as also ↓ استسفدها: (AAF, M:) or بَعِيرَهُ ↓ استسفد he came to his camel from behind, and mounted him: (IAar, K:) and [in like manner] تسفّدَهُ i. q. تَعَرْقَبَهُ, (K,) i. e. he mounted him from behind. (TA.)

6 تسافدت السِبَاعُ ذ (S) and الطُّيُورُ, (A,) or تسافد السِبَاعُ (K) and الطُّيُورُ, (TA,) and الشِيَاهُ ↓ سافدت, (Msb, [perhaps a mistranscription for تسافدت,]) The beasts of prey [and the birds and the sheep or goats ] leaped one another. (TK.)

10 اـِسْتَسْفَدَ see 5, in two places.

سَفْدُ اللِقَاحِ ذ A certain game, in which boys arrange themselves one behind another, every one laying hold upon the حُجْزَة [or uppermost part of the waist-wrapper ] of his fellow, from behind him. (T in art. جعر, and TA.)

سَفُودٌ ذ A mare that is not allowed to be leaped [ by the stallion ] until she has completed her مُنْيَة, which is a period of twenty days. (Kr, M.)

سَفُّودٌ ذ (S, M, Msb, K) and سُفُّودٌ (M, TA) (assumed tropical:) An iron instrument, (S, M, K,) with curved prongs, (M, TA,) with which flesh-meat is roasted: (S, K:) Z makes is to be tropical, saying [in the A] that it is so called because of its adhering to that which is roasted upon it: (TA:) pl. سَفَافِيدُ. (Msb, TA.) [For instances of substs. similar to سَفُّودٌ and سُفُّودٌ, see سُبُّوحٌ.]

اـِسْفَنْدٌ ذ and اـِسْفِنْدٌ Wine: (K:) the etymologists assert that its د is a substitute for the ط in اـِسْفَنْطٌ, which is one of the names of wine. (TA.)

مُسْفَدٌ ذ pass. part. n. of 4, q. v.

1 سَفَرَ ذ , (S, M, A, K,) aor. سَفِرَ , inf. n. سَفْرٌ, (M, K,) He swept a house, or chamber, (S, M, A, K,) &c. (M.) ― -b2- And He, or it, [ swept away; or took away, or carried off, in every direction: and] dispersed: (M, K:) and removed, took off, or stripped off, a thing from a thing which it covered. (M * A, * K.) You say, سَفَرَتِ الرِّيحُ التُّرَابَ, and الوَرَقَ, (assumed tropical:) The wind swept away the dust, and the leaves: or too them away, or carried them off, in every direction. (M.) And سَفَرَت ِ الرِّيحُ الغَيْمَ (assumed tropical:) The wind dispersed the clouds: (M, TA:) or (assumed tropical:) removed the clouds from the face of the sky. (A, * TA.) And you say of a woman, سَفَرَتْ, (S, M, A, Mgh, K,) aor. سَفِرَ , (M,) inf. n. سُفُورٌ, (M, Mgh,) meaning She removed her veil (M, A, Mgh) عَنْ وَجْهِهَا from her face: (A, M:) and [elliptically] (M) she uncovered her face: (S, M, K:) [for] سَفَرْتُ الشَّىْءَ, [being for سفرت عَنِ الشَّىْءِ,] aor. سَفِرَ , inf. n. سَفْرٌ [or سُفُورٌ?], signifies I uncovered the thing; made it apparent, or manifest: (Mgh:) [but accord. to Mtr,] the phrase تَسْفِرُ وَجْهَهَا [meaning she uncovers her face ] is of weak authority. (Mgh.) ― -b3- Hence, i. e. from سَفَرَتْ meaning “ she uncovered her face, ” (M,) سَفَرْتُ بَيْنَ القَوْمِ, (S, M, Mgh, * Msb, K,) aor. سَفِرَ (S, Msb, K) and سَفُرَ , (K,) inf. n. سِفَارَةٌ (S, Mgh, Msb, K) and سَفَارَةٌ and سَفْرٌ, (K,) (assumed tropical:) I made peace, effected a reconciliation, or adjusted a difference, between the people; (S, Mgh, Msb, K;) because he who does so exposes what is in the mind of each party: (TA:) or I exposed what was in the mind of this and the mind of this in order to make peace, &c., between the people. (M.) [See also سِفَارَةٌ, below.] ― -b4- [And likewise, perhaps, from سَفَرَتْ meaning “ she uncovered her face, ”] سَفَرَتِ الشَّمْسُ, aor. سَفِرَ , inf. n. سَفْرٌ, (assumed tropical:) The sun rose. (Msb.) ― -b5- See also 4, in two places. ― -b6- سَفَرَ, (S,) Msb,) aor. سَفِرَ , (S,) or سَفُرَ , (Msb,) inf. n. سُفُورٌ, (S,) or سَفَرٌ, (Msb,) [the former of which inf. ns. perhaps indicates a radical relation to سَفَرَتْ said of a woman, and of the sun, expl. above,] He went forth to journey: (S, Msb:) this verb, however, in this sense, [which appears to have been unknown, or not acknowledged, by the authors of the M and K, (see مُسَافِرٌ,)] is obsolete; but its inf. n. سَفَرٌ is used as a simple subst. (Msb. [See 3, the verb commonly used in this sense.]) ― -b7- [Hence, app,] سَفَرَ شَحْمُهُ (tropical:) His fat went away. (A, TA.) ― -b8- and سَفَرَتِ الحَرْبُ (tropical:) The war declined; syn. وَلَّت. (A, K.) -A2- سَفَرَ الكِتَابَ, (S, A,) aor. سَفِرَ , inf. n. سَفْرٌ, (S,) He wrote the book, or writing. (A. [See سِفْرٌ.]) -A3- سَفَرَ البَعِيرَ, (S, K,) or سَفَرَهُ بِالسِّفَارِ, (M,) aor. سَفِرَ , (M, K,) inf. n. سَفْرٌ; (M;) and ↓ اسفرهُ, (AZ, M, K,) inf. n. اـِسْفَارٌ; (TA;) and ↓ سفّرهُ, (Kr, M, K,) inf. n. تَسْفِيرٌ; (TA;) He put the سِفَار [q. v.] upon the nose of the camel. (S, M, K.) -A4- سَفَرَ اِلغَنَمَ He sold the best of the sheep, or goats. (K.)

2 سفّرهُ ذ , inf. n. تَسْفِيرٌ, He sent him to go a journey. (K, TA.) ― -b2- سفّر الاـِبِلَ, (K,) inf. n. as above, (TA,) He pastured the camels between sunset and nightfall, and in the سَفِير, (K, TA,) i. e., the whiteness [ of the sky ] before night: (TA:) or he fed the camels with سَفِير [q. v.]: (so in the O:) and سفّر فَرَسَهُ, inf. n. تَسْفِيرُ, He fed his horse with سَفِير: or he kept him continually going, and trained him, in order that he might become strong to journey. (JM.) ― -b3- سفّر النَّارَ, (K,) inf. n. as above, (TA,) He made the fire to flame, or blaze; (K, TA;) kindled it; or made it to burn, burn up, or burn brightly or fiercely, (TA.) -A2- See also 1, last sentence but one.

3 سَاْفَرَ [سافر is trans. and intrans.] You say, الرِّيَاحُ يُسَافِرُ بَعْضُهَا بَعْضًا [ The winds vie, one with another, in sweeping the ground, effacing one another's traces ]: for the east wind removes and disperses the longitudinal traces made by the west wind, and the south wind makes traces across them. (S, * K, * TA.) -A2- And سافر, inf. n. مُسَافَرَةٌ (S, Msb, K) and سِفَارٌ, (S, K,) He journeyed, or went, (K,) or went forth to journey, (S, Msb,) اـِلَى بَلَدِ كَذَا [ to such a country, or town ]. (S, K.) And سَافَرَ سَفَرًا بَعِيدًا [ He journeyed, or went, a far journey ]. (A, Mgh.) [See also 1.] ― -b2- [Hence,] (assumed tropical:) He died. (K.) ― -b3- And سَافَرَتِ الشَّمْسُ عَنْ كَبِدِ السَّمَاآءِ (tropical:) [ The sun declined from the middle of the sky ]. (A.) ― -b4- And سَافَرَتْ عَنْهُ الحُمَّى (tropical:) [ The fever departed from him ]. (A.)

4 اسفرت الشَّجَرَةُ ذ The tree had its leaves blown off [ and swept away ] by the wind; (K, * TA;) they having become changed in colour, and white. (TA.) ― -b2- And اسفر, (inf. n. اـِسْفَارٌ, Mgh, Msb,) It (the dawn, or daybreak,) shone, (T, S, M, A, Mgh, Msb, K,) so that there was no doubt respecting it; (T, TA;) as also ↓ سَفَرَ, (M, K,) aor. سَفِرَ , (K,) inf. n. سَفْرٌ: (TA:) it has a special relation to colour; meaning it shone in colour. (B, TA.) ― -b3- It (the moon) caused a shining [ in the sky ] before its rising. (M.) ― -b4- (tropical:) It (a man's face) shone (S, M) [ with happiness (see مُسْفِرٌ)]; or with beauty; for you say, اسفر حُسْنًا; (S;) as also ↓ سَفَرَ: (M:) or became overspread with beauty. (Msb.) ― -b5- And He entered upon the time of dawn, or daybreak; (M;) or the time when the dawn became white. (K.) The Prophet said, أَسْفِرُوا بِالفَجْرِ, meaning Perform ye the prayer of daybreak when ye enter upon the time in which the dawn shines, or becomes white: (S, * Msb:) or when the dawn has become manifest, so that there is no doubt respecting it, every one knowing it to be the true dawn when he sees it; accord. to EshSháfi'ee and Ibn-Hambal and others: (T, TA:) or prolong ye the prayer of daybreak until ye enter upon the time when the dawn becomes white: (S, TA:) some say that it relates especially to nights in [the end of] which the moon shines, because in such the commencement of daybreak is not manifest: (TA:) or أَسْفَرَ بِالصَّلَاةِ means he performed prayer in the shining of the dawn: and the ب is for the purpose of making the verb transitive. (Mgh.) ― -b6- اسفرت الحَرْبُ (tropical:) The war became vehement. (A, K.) -A2- See also 1, last sentence but one.

5 تسفّر ذ means أَتَى بِسَفَرٍ, (O, K,) i. e. He came in [ the time of ] the whiteness of day [either before sunrise or after sunset ]. (TA.) ― -b2- And تسفّرت الاـِبِلُ The camels pastured between sunset and nightfall, (O, K,) and in the سَفِير, (K, TA,) i. e. the whiteness [ of the sky ] before night. (TA. [But see 2, second sentence.]) -A2- تسفّر النِسَاآءَ (O, K, TA) عَنْ وُجُوهِهِنَّ (O, TA) i. q. ↓ اِسْتَسْفَرَهُنَّ, (O, K, TA,) i. e. He sought the brightest of the women in face and in beauty (TA, TK *) for marriage. (TK.) ― -b2- And تسفّر شَيْئاً مِنْ حَاجَتِهِ (tropical:) He attained, or obtained, somewhat of the object of his want (O, K, TA) before its becoming beyond his reach. (TA.) ― -b3- And تسفّر فُلَانًا (assumed tropical:) He sought to obtain of such a one the half (النِّصْفَ, O, K, TA [in the CK. النَّصَفَ, by which, if it be correct, may perhaps be meant what was equitable, and النِّصْفَ may bear the same interpretation,]) of a claim (تَبِعَة) that he had upon him. (O, K, TA.) -A3- تسفّر الجِلْدُ The skin received, or had, a mark, or an impression: (O, K:) from سَفْرٌ meaning أَثَرٌ. (TA.)

7 انسفر الغَيْمُ ذ (assumed tropical:) The clouds became dispersed: (M, TA:) [or] became removed from the face of the sky. (TA.) ― -b2- انسفر مُقَدَّمُ رَأْسِهِ مِنَ الشَّعَرِ (assumed tropical:) The fore part of his head became divested of the hair. (S, K. *) ― -b3- انسفرت الاـبِلُ فِى الأَرْضِ (assumed tropical:) The camels went away into the country, or land. (M, K. *)

9 اـِسْفَرَّ [اِسْفَرِّتِ الشَّمْسُ, inf. n. اِسْفِرَارٌ, app. means The sun became white, previously to setting.] See سَفَرٌ.

10 استسفر الِنّسَاآءَ ذ : see 5. -A2- استسفرهُ He sent him as a سَفِير [q. v.]. (JM.)