Lane's Lexicon (Edward Lane, 1863)

سَفْرٌ ذ : see مُسَافِرٌ, in two places. -A2- Also A mark, an impression, a trace, or a vestige, (أَثَرٌ, K, TA,) remaining: (TA:) pl. سُفُورٌ. (K.) [Accord. to Freytag, it occurs in the Deewán El-Hudhaleeyeen as meaning The track, or trace, of a surge, or torrent. ]

سِفْرٌ ذ A book, or writing: (S, M:) or a great, or large, book: or a section of the Book of the Law revealed to Moses: (M, K:) or a book that discovers, or reveals, truths: (TA:) or a book is thus called because it discovers things, and makes them evident: (M:) pl. أَسْفَارٌ. (S, M.) ― -b2- With respect to the saying of Aboo-Sakhr El-Hudhalee, زلِلَيْلَى بِذَاتِ البَيْنِ دَارٌعَرَفْتُهَا وَأُخْرَى بِذَاتِ الجَيْشِ اآيَاتُهَاسِفْرُ Skr says, [the poet means,] the marks, or traces, thereof had become effaced: [accordingly, the verse may be rendered, To Leylà there was in Dhát-el-Beyn an abode that I knew, and another in Dhát-el-Jeysh whereof the marks, or traces, are effaced: ] IJ says, [app. holding the meaning to be, the marks, or traces, whereof are ( like those of ) an ancient book, such as a portion of the Mosaic Law,] the last word should be from the phrase سَفَرْتُ البَيْتَ, i. e. “ I swept the house, or chamber; ” as though the writing were swept off from the طِرْس [or “ written paper ” or the like, to which the poet seems to compare the site of the abode in Dhát-el-Jeysh]. (M, TA.)

سَفَرٌ ذ Journey, or travel; the act of journeying or travelling; (S, A, K;) contr. of حَضَرٌ: (M, K:) thus called because of the going and coming in it, like the going and coming of the wind sweeping away fallen leaves: (M:) or the act of going forth to journey; an inf. n. used as a simple subst.: (Msb:) [therefore] the pl. is أسْفَارٌ: (S, M, A, Msb, K:) [and therefore it is often used as a n. un.; but, properly speaking, the n. un. is ↓ سَفْرَةٌ:] you say, كَانَتْ سَفْرَتُهُ قَرِيبَةً [ His journey was near ]: and the pl. of سَفْرَةٌ, accord. to rule, is سَفَرَاتٌ. (Msb.) In law, [as relating to the obligation of fasting &c.,] The going forth with the intention of performing a journey of three days and nights, or more. (KT.) -A2- Also The whiteness of dawn or daybreak: (A:) or the whiteness of the day: (S, M:) and i. q. صَبَاحٌ [ dawn, or morning, or forenoon; but app. here used in the first of these senses]: (M:) and ↓ سَفِيرٌ, the whiteness [ of the sky ] before night: (A, TA:) or the former, the remains of the whiteness of day after sunset. (K.) You say سَفَرًا i. e. صَبَاحًا [app. as meaning In the dawn ]. (A.) And the prose-rhymer says, اـِذَا طَلَعَتِ الشِّعْرَى سَفَرًا لَمْ تَرَفِيهَا مَطَرًا (S, * TA) i. e. When Sirius rises in the whiteness of day [meaning in the clear twilight of morning, thou seest not then rain: for Sirius rises aurorally, in Arabia, in the middle and the latter half of July, when rain scarcely ever falls there]. (S. [Accord. to the TA, the meaning, app. taken without consideration from one of the foregoing explanations of سَفَرٌ, is, when Sirius rises at nightfall: but this is during the usual winter-rains.]) You say also, لَقِيتُهُ سَفَرًا, and فِى سَفَرٍ, meaning ↓ عِنْدَا@سْفِرَارِ الشَّمْسِ لِلغُرُوبِ, thus related, with س [in the word اسفرار (not with ص), and app. meaning I met him when the sun was becoming white, previously to the setting ]. (M.) And بَقِىَ سَفَرٌ مِنْ نَهَارٍ [ There remained a white gleam of daylight ]. (A.)

سَفْرَةٌ ذ : see the next preceding paragraph.

سُفْرَةٌ ذ The food of the traveller; (M, K;) the food that is prepared for the traveller, (S, Msb,) or for a journey: (TA:) pl. َسُفَرٌ. (Msb.) This is the primary signification. (TA.) You say, أَكَلُوا السُّفْرَةَ They ate the food for the journey. (A.) ― -b2- Hence, (tropical:) The receptacle thereof; (TA;) the piece of skin in which it is put. (S, * M, * Msb, K, * TA.) [This is commonly of a round form, with a running string; so that it is converted into a bag to contain the food, at one time, and at another time is spread flat upon the ground, when persons want to eat upon it.] ― -b3- And hence, (tropical:) The thing [ whatever it be ] upon which one eats: (TA:) [in the desert, it is generally a round piece of skin, such as I have described above: in the towns, in the houses of the middle classes, a round tray of tinned copper, which is usually placed on a low stool; and in the dwellings of some of the highest classes, and the lowest, respectively, of silver and wood:] accord. to the T, سُفْرَةٌ has the last of the significations given before this, and the thing which it denotes is thus called because it is spread when one eats upon it. (TA.)

سِفَارٌ ذ (Lh, S, M, K) and ↓ سِفَارَةٌ (Lh, M) A piece of iron, (S, M, K,) or a cord, (M,) or a piece of skin, (K,) that is put over the nose [ and jaws ] of a camel, in the place of the حَكَمَة [q. v.] (Lh, S, M, K) of the horse: (S, K:) or a cord that is attached to the خِطَام [q. v.] of a camel, a part being twisted round it, and the rest being made a rein: and sometimes it is of iron: (Lth:) pl. [of pauc., of the former,] أَسْفِرَةٌ (M, K) and [of mult.] سُفُرٌ (S, M, K) and [of either] سَفَائِرُ. (M, K.)

سَفِيرٌ ذ Leaves which the wind sweeps away; (M;) leaves which fall from trees (S, A, K) and which the wind sweeps away, (A,) or because the wind sweeps them away: (S:) or leaves of herbs; because the wind sweeps them away: (T, TA:) or what have fallen of the leaves of trees and of the lower portions of seed-produce. (JM.) -A2- Also A messenger: (S:) and (assumed tropical:) a mediator; or a man who makes peace, effects a reconciliation, or adjusts a difference, between a people; (S, M, Msb;) as also ↓ سَافِرٌ: (Msb:) or a messenger who makes peace, &c.: (T, Mgh, TA:) [see 1:] pl. of the former سُفَرَاآءُ, (S, M, Mgh,) and of the latter سَفَرَةٌ. (Har p. 255. [See also سِفَارَةٌ, below.]) ― -b2- And (assumed tropical:) A commissioned agent, a factor, or a deputy; and the like: pl. as above: app. so called because he discovers, and makes manifest, the affair in which he acts as a substitute for another person. (Msb.) -A3- See also سَفَرٌ.

سُفَارَةٌ ذ Sweepings. (S, M, K.)

سِفَارَةٌ ذ an inf. n. of سَفَرَ in the phrase سَفَرَ بَيْنَ القَوْمِ [q. v.]. (S, Mgh, Msb, K.) [And hence, The office of the سَفِير (q. v.). See also De Sacy's Chrest. Ar., sec. ed., i. 126 and 172: and Quatremère's Hist. des Sultans Mamlouks, i. 193.] -A2- Also The falling of one's hair from [ above ] his forehead. (Sgh, TA.) -A3- See also سِفَارٌ.

سَافِرٌ ذ [act. part. n. of 1:] A woman having her face uncovered: (S, M, Mgh, K:) pl. سَوَافِرُ. (TA.) ― -b2- And a horse (assumed tropical:) having little flesh: (K:) or so سَافِرُ اللَّحْمِ, a phrase used by Ibn-Mukbil. (TA.) ― -b3- See also سَفِيرٌ. ― -b4- And see مُسَافِرٌ, in two places. -A2- Also A writer; a scribe: (Akh, S, M, K:) in the Nabathæan language سَافِرَا: (M:) pl. سَفَرَةٌ: (Akh, S, M, K:) which is also applied to the angels who register actions. (M, K.)

تَسْفِيرَةٌ ذ : see مِسْفَرَةٌ.

مَسْفَرٌ ذ sing. of مَسَافِرُ, (A,) which signifies The part that appears [or parts that appear ] of the face. (S, A, * K.) ― -b2- [Also, or مَسْفِرٌ, A place of journeying or travelling: in which sense, likewise, its pl. is مَسَافِرُ.] One says, بَيْنِى وَبَيْنَهُ مَسَافِرُ بَعِيدَةٌ [ Between me and him, or it, are farextending tracts to be travelled ]. (A.)

مُسْفِرٌ ذ [act. part. n. of 4, q. v.:] (tropical:) A face shining (A, TA) with happiness. (A.) ― -b2- النَّاقَةُ المُسْفِرَةُ الحُمْرَةِ [in the CK (erroneously) الحُمْرَةُ] means (assumed tropical:) [ The she-camel ] that is somewhat above such as is termed صَهْبَاآء [ in respect of redness ]. (O, K, TA.)

مِسْفَرٌ ذ : see مِسْفَرَةٌ. ― -b2- Also A man (TA) that journeys, or travels, much; (K;) and so ↓ مِسْفَارٌ: (A:) or that journeys, or travels, much, and is strong for journeying: (M:) and, applied to a camel, (S, M, A,) strong for journeying; (S, M, A, K;) fem. with ة, (S, M, K,) applied to a she-camel, (S, M,) as also ↓ مِسْفَارٌ, thus applied. (M.)

مِسْفَرَةٌ ذ A broom; a thing with which one sweeps; (S, M, K;) as also ↓ مِسْفَرٌ, and ↓ تَسْفِيرَةٌ, of which last, (expl. by مَا يُسْفَرُ بِهِ,) the pl. is تَسَافِيرُ. (TA.)

مُسَفِّرٌ ذ i. q. مُجَلِّدٌ [i. e. One who binds books (أَسْفَار, pl. of سِفْرٌ), or covers them with leather ]. (A, TA.)

مِسْفَارٌ ذ : see مِسْفَرٌ, in two places.

مَسْفُورٌ ذ Distressed, or fatigued, by journeying or travel. (TA.)

مُسَافِرٌ ذ A man journeying, or travelling; a traveller; a wayfarer; (S, M, K;) as also ↓ سَافِرٌ; (M, * K;) which latter is [said to be] not a part. n., but [a possessive epithet] meaning ذُو سَفَرٍ, (M,) having no verb belonging to it (M, K) that we have seen; (M;) or it is from سَفَرَ, and signifies going forth on a journey: (S, Msb:) pl. of the former مُسَافِرُونَ, (S,) and of the latter سُفَّارٌ (S, M, A, Msb, K) and أَسْفَارٌ (M, K) and سُفَّرٌ; (TA;) and you also say ↓ قَوْمٌ سَافِرَةٌ [fem. of سَافِرٌ], (S, * M, Msb, K,) and ↓ قَوْمٌ سَفْرٌ, (S, M, A, Msb, K,) [سَفْرٌ being a quasi-pl. n.,] like صَحْبٌ in relation to صَاحِبْ: (S, Mgh, Msb:) and ↓ سَفْرٌ is also used as a sing., (M, K,) being originally an inf. n. (TA.) ― -b2- مُسَافِرَةٌ is used by Zuheyr as a name for A [ wild ] cow. (M, TA.)

سَفَرْجَلٌ ذ [The quince; pyrus cydonia of Linn.;] a certain fruit, (K,) well known; (S, K;) abundant in the land of the Arabs: (AHn, TA:) it is astringent, or constipating; strengthening; diuretic; exites the appetite (K, TA) for food and venery; (TA;) allays thirst; and when eaten upon [ other ] food, loosens [ the bowels ]; and the most beneficial thereof is that which has been scooped out, and had its pips extracted, and honey put in the place thereof, and been plastered over with clay, and baked (K, TA) in the oven: (TA:) [a coll. gen. n.:] n. un. with ة: (K:) and pl. سَفَارِجُ: (S, K:) the dim. is سُفَيْرِج and سُفَيْجِلٌ, mentioned by Az. (TA.) ― -b2- [سَفَرْجَلٌ هِنْد ِىُّ Annona glabra; a species of custard-apple; mentioned by Forskål, Flora Aegypt. Arab., p. cxiv.] -A2- The saying of Sb, that there is not in the language the like of سفر جال does not mean that this word is applied to anything: and in like manner his saying that there is not in the language the like of اسفرجلت does not mean that this word is used. (TA.)

1 سَفُطَ ذ , aor. سَفُطَ , (M, K,) inf. n. سَفَاطَةٌ, (M, TA,) He was, or became, cheerful, happy, or free from straitness, in mind: liberal, bountiful, or munificent. (M, K, TA.)

4 مَاأَسْفَطَ نَفْسَهُ عَنْكَ ذ How pleased, or content, is his mind to give thee up, or relinquish thee! syn. مَا أَطْيَبَهَا. (IAar, K.)

5 تسفّط الخَمْرَ ذ It (a jar) drank up, or absorbed, the greater part of the wine. (K.)

8 اِسْتِفَاطٌ ذ The drinking up entirely [what is in a vessel]; syn. اِشْتِفَافٌ. (K.)

سَفَطٌ ذ A thing (M, Mgh, Msb, K) like a جُوَالِق [or sack ], (M, K,) or like a قُفَّة [or basket woven of palm-leaves ], (K,) in which are stowed perfume and similar things, (Mgh, Msb, TA,) of the apparatus of women: (Mgh, TA:) an Arabic word, well known: (TA:) pl. أَسْفَاطٌ. (S, M, Mgh, Msb, K.) ― -b2- And hence, (tropical:) A casket, or small chest. (Mgh.) It is related that an Arab of the desert, passing by at the burial of Mo- hammad, asked why they had not placed the Apostle of God in a سَفَط of brown aloes-wood encased with gold. (TA.)

سَفِيطٌ ذ Cheerful, happy, or free from straitness, in mind: liberal, bountiful, or munificent. (S, M, K.) You say, هُوَسَفِطُ النَّفْسِ He is cheerful, happy, or free from straitness, and liberal, in mind: (TA:) or cheerful, or brisk, to do what is kind or beneficent. (As.) And نَفْسُهُ سَفِيطَةٌ بِكَذَا [ His mind is pleased, or content, with such a thing ]. (TA.) -A2- Vile, or mean, and despised in all his circumstances: (M, K:) a man, (IAar, M, K,) or thing, (IAar, M,) of no estimation. (IAar, M, K.) Thus it has two contr. significations. (K.) ― -b2- What drop from the tree, of green unripe dates. (M, L, K.[المُتَسافِطُ in the CK is a mistake for المُتَسَا قِطُ.]) -A3- أَمْوالُهُمْ سَفِيطَةٌ بَيْنَهُمْ Their possessions are mixed among them. (AZ, S.)

سُفَاطَةٌ ذ The goods, or utensils and furniture, of a house or tent. (IDrd, S, [but wanting in one copy,] M, K.)

سَفَّاطٌ ذ A maker of what is called سَفَط. (TA.)

اـِسْفَنْطٌ ذ , (S, M, K,) so in the handwriting of J, (TA,) and اـِسْفِنْطٌ, (M, K,) also written with ص, (As, and K in art. صفط,) Perfumed juice of grapes: (M, L, K:) or wine in which are aromatics: (TA:) or the upper part of wine; (AO, M, K;) the clear part thereof; (AO, TA;) so called because the jars (دِنَان) have drunk up, or absorbed, the greater portion of it, (K, TA,) the clear part remaining; (TA;) or from سَفِيطٌ in the first of the senses assigned to it above: (IAar, K:) or various wines mixed together: (TA:) or it signifies a certain sort of beverage or wine: and is a Persian word, [originally اـِسْفَنْدٌ,] arabicized: (S, K:) or, accord. to As, a Greek word, (S, M,) signifying wine: (TA:) if not Arabic, all its letters are radicals: and Sb says that it is a quinqueliteral-radical word, like اـِصْطَبْلٌ. (TA.)

مُسَفَّطُ الرَّأْسِ ذ A man having a head like a سَفَط. (IAar, K.)

1 سَفَعَتْهُ السَّمُومُ ذ , (S,) or سَفَعَ السَّمُومُ وَجْهَهُ, (K,) and النَّارُ, (S,) and الشَّمْسُ, (TA,) aor. سَفَعَ , (K,) inf. n. سَفْعٌ, (TK,) The hot wind, (S, K,) and the fire, (S,) and the sun, (TA,) smote, or burned, (S, K,) him, (S,) or his face, (K,) slightly, (S, K,) so that it altered the colour of the external skin, (S,) and, as some add, blackened it; (TA;) as also ↓ سفّعهُ, (K,) inf. n. تَسْفِيعٌ. (TA.) [It is app. from سُفْعَةٌ signifying “ blackness tinged with redness. ”] ― -b2- [And hence,] سَفَعَهُ, aor. as above, (K,) and so the inf. n., (TA,) He made a mark upon it: and he made a mark upon it with a hot iron, or with fire. (K, * TA.) ― -b3- Also, aor. as above, (L, K,) and so the inf. n., (L,) (assumed tropical:) He slapped (L, K) it, a man's face, (L,) or him, a man, (K,) with his hand. (L.) And (assumed tropical:) He struck it (a man's neck) with his expanded hand: in which sense it is also written with ص. (TA.) And (assumed tropical:) He struck him, or beat him, (K,) with a staff, or stick. (TA.) And (assumed tropical:) He (a bird) slapped it, (S, [in which only the inf. n. is mentioned,] and K,) namely, the object struck by him, (K,) with his wing, (S,) or with his wings. (K: and so [as is implied in the TA] in some copies of the S.) ― -b4- سَفَعَ بِنَاصِيَتهِ, (Lth, S, K,) aor. and inf. n. as above, (TA,) He laid hold upon, or seized, (Lth, S, K,) and dragged, (Lth, K,) his ناصية, (Lth, S, K,) i. e. the fore part of his head (TA) [or his forelock or the hair over his forehead ]: or سَفْعٌ signifies the laying hold upon, or seizing, the سُفْعَة of the head, i. e. the black part of its ناصية. (ElMufradát, TA.) You say, سَفَعَ بِنَاصِيَةِ الفَرَسِ لِيَرْكَبَهُ [ He laid hold upon, or seized, the forelock of the horse, to mount him ]. (TA.) And سَفَعَ بِرِجْلِهِ He laid hold upon, or seized, and dragged, his foot. (TA.) And سَفَعَ بِيَدِهِ He laid hold upon his hand: (IAar:) or he laid hold upon his hand and raised him: often used in this sense by 'Obeyd-Allah Ibn-Al-Hasan, Kádee of El-Bas- rah. (Sgh.) It is said in the Kur [xcvi. 15], لَنَسْفَعًا بِالنَّاصِيَةِ; (S, K, &c.;) [or لَنَسْفَعَا; (see أَلِفُ النُّونِ الخَفِيفَةِ in art. ا;)] the Arabs [sometimes] substituting ا for the quiescent ن [in a case of this kind]; (Sgh;) i. e. We will assuredly take by the ناصية (Az, S, TA) to the fire [ of hell ]: (Az, TA:) or we will assuredly lay hold upon his ناصية and drag him thereby with violence to the fire: (Bd:) or we will assuredly drag him thereby to the fire: (O, K:) or we will assuredly blacken his face; the ناصية being put for the face because it is the fore part thereof: (Fr, Az, K:) or we will assuredly mark him with the mark of the people of the fire, (O, K,) making his face black, and his eyes blue: (O:) or we will assuredly abase him: or, render him despicable: (O, K:) or we will assuredly abase him and make him to stand: so in the L and other lexicons; for these, instead of أولَنُقْمِئَنَّهُ in the O and K, have وَلَنُقِيمَنَّهُ, and this is shown to be the right reading by the last explanation in the sentence next preceding. (TA.) -A2- سَفِعَ, aor. سَفَعَ , inf. n. سَفَعٌ, It (a thing) was, or became, of the colour termed سُفْعَة, i. e. black tinged, or intermixed, with red. (Msb.)

2 سَفَّعَ see 1; first sentence.

3 سافعهُ ذ , inf. n. مُسَافَعَةٌ, (S, TA,) (tropical:) He slapped him, being slapped by him: he struck him, or beat him, being struck, or beaten, by him: and he fought with him; namely his adversary: (TA:) [or he charged upon, or assaulted, or attacked, him, the latter doing the same; for] مُسَافَعَةٌ is like مُطَارَدَةٌ. (S.) ― -b2- (assumed tropical:) He embraced him, being embraced by him. (TA.)

5 تسفّع ذ He warmed himself, (K, TA,) بِالنَّارِ with the fire. (TA.)

8 اُسْتُفِعَ لَوْنُهُ ذ His colour became altered by reason of fear, or the like, (K, TA,) as, for instance, disease. (TA.) ― -b2- [اِسْتَفَعَ He, or it, became swollen, or affected with a tumour; for] اِسْتِفَاعٌ is like تَهَبُّجٌ, (K, TA,) with ب before the ج. (TA: [in the CK تَهَيُّج.]) -A2- اِسْتَفَعَ [from سَفْعٌ] He (a man) put on, or clad himself with, his garment: and اِسْتَفَعَتْ She (a woman) put on her garments. (TA.)

سَفْعٌ مِنَ النَّارِ ذ A mark, from fire, altering the colour of a man. (TA.) -A2- سَفْعٌ also signifies A garment of any kind: (K:) but mostly such as is dyed: pl. سُفُوعٌ. (TA.) ― -b2- [And hence, perhaps,] The spathe, or spadix, (طَلْع,) of a tree called ظِمْخٌ. (AA, T in art. ظمخ.)

سُفْعٌ ذ : see أَسْفَعُ, of which it is pl., though sometimes used as a subst.

سَفَعٌ ذ : see سُفْعَةٌ.

سَفْعَةٌ ذ (assumed tropical:) A stroke from a devil: (TA:) or a touch of madness or diabolical possession, in a person, as though a devil had laid hold upon his نَاصِيَة: (S, TA:) [see سَفَعَ بَنَاصِيَتِهِ:] or a stroke with the evil eye: (TA:) or a stroke of an [ evil ] eye by which one is affected from the jinn's looking at him; as also نَظْرَةٌ: (T in art. نظر:) or an evil eye. (K, TA: [in the CK, for سَفْعَةٌأىْ عَيْنٌ, is put سَفْعَةٌ أَوْ عَيْنٌ.]) One says, بَهِ سَفْعَةٌ In him is a touch of madness, &c. (S.) And أَصَابَتْهُ سَفْعَةٌ An evil eye smote him. (K, TA.)

سُفْعَةٌ ذ Blackness tinged, or intermixed, with redness: (Lth, S, Msb, K:) or blackness that is not much: or blackness with another colour: or blackness with blueness; or, with yellowness; accord. to the Towsheeh: but Lth says that, as meaning a colour, it has the first of all these meanings only: (TA:) or [simply] blackness. (Mgh.) In the face, it is A blackness in the cheeks of a wan, or haggard, woman: (S:) and ↓ سَفَعٌ [which is properly the inf. n. of سَفِعَ, q. v.,] a blackness tinged with redness in the cheeks of a wan, or haggard, woman, (O, K,) and of a sheep, or goat. (O.) One says also, أَرَىفِى وَجْهِهِ سُفْعَةً مِنْ غَضَبٍ (tropical:) I see in his face a change to blackness in consequence of anger. (TA.) The سُفْعَة of the head is The blackness of its نَاصِيَة [i. e. fore part, or forelock, or hair over the forehead ]. (El-Mufradát, TA.) And سُفَعٌ [which is the pl.] signifies Black spots, or specks, on the face of a bull. (TA.) ― -b2- Also A spot of ground, in the traces of a house, differing, in its blackness, from the rest of the colour of the ground: (S, TA:) [i. e. a black, or dark, patch of ground where a house has stood: ] or dung of beasts, (K, TA,) or sand, (TA,) or ashes, or sweepings commingled and compacted together, in the traces left by the inhabitants of a house, differing in colour from the ground [ around ]; (K, TA;) so says Lth. (TA.)

سَافِعٌ ذ [act. part. n. of سَفَعَ,] A man laying hold upon, or seizing, the نَاصِيَة [or forelock ] of his horse [ to mount him ]. (S, * and Ham p. 7.) -A2- سَوَافِعُ [pl. of سَافِعَةٌ,] Burning blasts of the [ wind called ] سَمُوم. (S, K.)

أًسْفَعُ ذ Of a black colour tinged, or intermixed, with redness: (S, Msb:) or black: (Mgh:) applied to a man: (S:) fem سَفْعَاآءُ: (Mgh, Msb:) and سُفْعٌ [is the pl., and] signifies blacks inclining to redness. (K.) Applied to an ostrich, i. q. أَرْبَدُ [which is variously explained, as signifying Of a colour inclining to blackness, or of the colour of dust, &c.]. (TA.) And the fem., applied to a ewe, Having black cheeks, the rest of her being white. (TA.) The masc. also signifies A wild bull: (K:) or, applied to a wild bull, it signifies having in his cheeks a blackness inclining a little to redness. (TA.) And The hawk; (K;) because it has spots of black: (Er-Rághib:) all hawks are سُفْعٌ: (S:) and the fem., A pigeon (حَمَامَةٌ); because of the سُفْعَة upon its neck: (S:) or, applied to a pigeon, it signifies of which the سُفْعَة is upon its neck, (K, TA,) exclusively of the head, (TA,) in the part on each side of the neck above the ring. (K, * TA.) It is also a name for Sheep, or goats; used when they are called to be milked: (K:) so in the O: but in some copies, and in the TS, for the she-goat: (TA:) thus in the phrase, أَشْلِ اـِلَيْكَ الأَسْفَعَ [ Call thou to thee the sheep, or goats, or the she-goat, to be milked ]: (O, TS, K:) mentioned by Ibn-'Abbád. (TA.) ― -b2- Applied to a garment, or piece of cloth, Black. (K.) ― -b3- ↓ The pl. is also applied to The أَثَافِىّ, (Lth, S, K,) or three stones upon which the cooking-pot is set up; (TA;) because of their blackness: (Lth, Er-Rághib:) [see حَاضِنٌ:] and a single one thereof is called سَفْعَاآءُ: (K:) or an iron أُثْفِيَّة [meaning trivet ], (K, TA,) upon which the cooking-pot is set up; and this is said to be the primary application. (TA.) ― -b4- سُفْعٌ also signifies The seeds, or grain, of the colocynth; (Ibn-'Abbád, K;) because of their blackness: (TA:) n. un. with ة. (K.)

مُسَفَّعٌ ذ applied to a man clad in armour, Black from the rust of the iron. (TA.) Applied to a bull, Having black spots, or specks, on his face. (TA.)

مَسْفُوعٌ ذ A man (I'Ab) smitten by an evil eye. (I 'Ab, K.) ― -b2- مَسْفُوعُ العَيْنِ A man whose eye is sunk, or depressed, in his head. (I 'Ab, K.) ― -b3- [See also مَشْفُوعٌ.]

مُسَافِعٌ ذ (assumed tropical:) Striking, or beating, another, being struck, or beaten, by him. (K.) (assumed tropical:) Charging upon, or assaulting, or attacking, another who is doing the same. (K.) ― -b2- [And hence,] (assumed tropical:) The lion (K, TA) that prostrates his prey. (TA.) ― -b3- (assumed tropical:) Embracing. (K.) ― -b4- (tropical:) I. q. مُسَافِحٌ; (Ibn-'Abbád, K;) i. e. having sexual intercourse without marriage. (TA.)

1 سَفَقَ البَابَ ذ , (T, S, Msb, K,) aor. سَفِقَ , inf. n. سَفْقٌ; (Msb;) and ↓ اسفقهُ; (T, S, Msb, K;) He shut, or closed, the door; (T, S, Msb, K;) or locked it: (Msb:) and in like manner with ص [in the place of the س]. (TA.) ― -b2- سَفَقَ وَجْهَهُ, (inf. n. as above, TA,) He slapped his face. (IDrd, Msb, K.) [See also صَفَقَ.] ― -b3- السَّفْقُ فِى الأَسْواقَ, occurring in a trad., means The striking of the hands [of the contracting parties] on the occasion of selling and buying [in token of the ratification thereof in the markets ]: and so with ص. (TA.) ― -b4- سَفَقَ أْمْرَأَتَهُ, inf. n. as above, i. q. أَصَابَهَا [app. meaning He compressed his wife; like اصاب مِنْهَا]. (TA.) -A2- سَفُقَ, (S, Msb, K,) aor. سَفُقَ , (K,) inf. n. سَفَاقَةٌ, (S, Msb,) It (a garment, or piece of cloth,) was thick, substantial, close, or compact, in texture; (T, S, Msb, K;) not سَخِيف; (T;) contr. of سَخُفَ: (Msb:) [and so صَفُقَ.]

4 أَسْفَقَ see above, first sentence. ― -b2- اسفق الغَنَمَ He milked the sheep, or goats, but once in the day: and so with ص. (TA.) ― -b3- اسفق الثَّوْبَ He (a weaver) made the garment, or piece of cloth, thick, substantial, close, or compact, in texture. (TA.)

7 انسفق ذ It (a door) became shut, or closed: (S, TA:) and so with ص. (TA.)

أَعْطَاهُ سَفْقَةَ يَمِينِهِ ذ i. q. بَايَعَهُ [ He sold and bought with him: he made a covenant, a compact, an engagement, or the like, with him: or he promised, or swore, allegiance to him ]: (O, K:) occurring in a trad., related thus and with ص. (TA.) ― -b2- And اِشْتَرَيْتُ الشَّيئَيْنِ سَفْقَةً وَاحِدَةً, (O,) or فِى سَفْقَةٍ وَاحِدَةً, (K,) I purchased the two things by a single act of purchasing. (O, K.)

سَفِيقٌ ذ , applied to a garment, or piece of cloth, Thick, substantial, close, or compact, in texture. (T, S, Msb, K.) ― -b2- And [hence,] سَفِيقُ الوَجْهِ (assumed tropical:) A man (S, O, TA) having little shame. (S, O, K, TA.)