السفط

Root entry · 11 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to containers, bags, and packing, but also extends to concepts of repair, pleasantness, and even negative attributes like baseness. It also includes place names and a specific action of absorption.

Derived headwords

السفطnoun

1.
Bag, sackboth
A type of bag or sack, similar to a large traveling bag (جوالق) or a basket (قفة).
2.
Scale, huskclassical
The scales or outer covering on the skin of a fish.

أسفاطnoun

1.
Bags, sacksboth
The plural of السَّفْط, referring to multiple bags or sacks.

سفطverb

1.
To repair, plasterclassical
To repair or plaster a basin or water channel (حوض).

سفط حوضه تسفيطا: أصلحه ولاطه — He repaired his basin, plastering it.

تسفيطاnoun

1.
Repairing, plasteringclassical
The verbal noun (masdar) of سفط, meaning the act of repairing or plastering a basin or channel.

السفيطadjective

1.
Good-natured, generousclassical
Describing someone who is pleasant in disposition and generous.
2.
Base, ignobleclassical
Describing someone who is base, ignoble, or of no consequence; this is an antonym of the previous sense.
3.
Fallen datesclassical
Referring to dates that have fallen from a green palm tree.

سفطverb

1.
To be good-natured, generousclassical
To possess a pleasant disposition and be generous (used with the verb pattern كَرُمَ).

السفاطةnoun

1.
Household goodsclassical
The belongings or furnishings of a house.

سفطname

1.
Village nameboth
A name referring to seventeen villages in Egypt, often compounded with other words.

الاستفاطnoun

1.
Absorption, sippingclassical
The act of absorbing or sipping something.

مسفط الرأسadjective

1.
Bag-headedclassical
A man whose head is shaped like a bag or container (سفط).

رجل مسفط الرأس: رأسه كالسفط — A man with a bag-shaped head: his head is like a sack.

أسفطverb

1.
To make pleasantclassical
To make oneself feel pleasant or content, often in relation to someone else.

ما أسفط نفسه عنك: ما أطيبها — How pleasant he made himself towards you: how good-hearted he was.

Parallel reading

السفط، محركة: كالجوالق، أو كالقفة ج: أسفاط

The safṭ, with vowel movement: like a large bag, or like a basket, plural: asfāṭ.

والقشر على جلد السمك

And the scales on the skin of a fish.

وسفط حوضه تسفيطا: أصلحه ولاطه

And he repaired his basin, plastering it.

والسفيط: الطيب النفس، والسخي

And as-safīṭ: the good-natured, the generous.

وقد سفط، ككرم

And he was good-natured, like karuma.

والنذل، وكل من لا قدر له، ضد

And the base person, and everyone who has no value, the opposite.

والمتساقط من البسر الأخضر

And the fallen from the green dates.

والسفاطة، كثمامة: متاع البيت

And as-safāṭah, like thumāmah: the household goods.

وسفط، مضافة إلى أبي جرجى، والعرفاء، والقدور، والزيت، وزريق، والحناء، واللبن، والبهو، وأبي تراب، وسليط، وكرداسة، وقليشان، وميدوم، ورشين، والخمارة، ونهيا، والمهلبي: سبعة عشر قرية بمصر

And Safṭ, added to Abi Jurja, Al-`Urfāh, Al-Qudūr, Az-Zayt, Zurayq, Al-Ḥinnāʼ, Al-Laban, Al-Bahū, Abi Turāb, Sulayṭ, Kardāsah, Qalishān, Maydūm, Rashīn, Al-Khummārah, Nahyā, and Al-Mahlabī: seventeen villages in Egypt.

والاستفاط: الاشتفاف

And al-istifāṭ: the sipping.

ورجل مسفط الرأس: رأسه كالسفط

And a man with a bag-shaped head: his head is like a sack.

وما أسفط نفسه عنك: ما أطيبها

How pleasant he made himself towards you: how good-hearted he was.