السحف

Root entry · 20 derived lemmas

The root السحف primarily relates to scraping, peeling, or burning away a surface, often hair, skin, or fat. It extends to concepts of removal, destruction, and even descriptions of physical attributes like length or thinness, and sounds associated with scraping or grinding.

Derived headwords

سَحَفَverb

1.
to scrape off hairboth
To scrape hair off the skin completely, leaving nothing behind.
2.
to peel fatboth
To peel or scrape fat from something, such as from the back of an animal.
3.
to burnboth
To burn something, such as a plant or a head of hair.
4.
to eat one's fillclassical
Used for camels, meaning they ate as much as they desired.
5.
to blow away cloudsclassical
Used for wind, meaning it carried the clouds away.
6.
to shave the headboth
To shave someone's head.

السَّحْفُnoun

1.
scraping of hairboth
The act of scraping hair off the skin until nothing remains.

السَّحَائِبُnoun

1.
strips of fatclassical
Strips of fat found between layers of flesh, or broad, skin-adhering fat.

سَحُوفٌadjective

1.
fat-bellied (camel)both
A camel or she-camel that is very fatty.
2.
long-uddered (camel)classical
A she-camel with long udders, narrow teats, and whose udder drags on the ground when she walks.
3.
thin-fleeced (sheep)classical
A sheep with thin wool on its belly.
4.
eroding rainclassical
Rain that sweeps away whatever it passes over.
5.
grinding soundclassical
The sound of a millstone when grinding.
6.
sound of milkclassical
The sound of milk being milked.

سَحُوفٌnoun

1.
venereal diseaseclassical
A disease, specifically venereal disease.

أَسْحَفَتْهُverb

1.
wind blew it awayclassical
The wind blew it (the clouds) away.

سَحْفَنِيَّةٌadjective

1.
shaved-headedclassical
Describing a person with a shaved head.

السَّحُوفُnoun

1.
long-uddered she-camelclassical
A she-camel with long udders, narrow teats, and whose udder drags on the ground when she walks.
2.
thin-fleeced sheepclassical
A sheep with thin wool on its belly.
3.
eroding rainclassical
Rain that sweeps away whatever it passes over.

مَسْحُوفٌadjective

1.
afflicted with venereal diseaseclassical
One who is afflicted with venereal disease.

أَسْحُوفُ الأَحَالِيلِadjective

1.
wide-udderedclassical
A she-camel with wide teats, or one with abundant milk whose milking sound is heard.

الْأَسْحُفَانُnoun

1.
a type of plantclassical
A plant with pods like lupins, which is not eaten or grazed but is used medicinally for sciatica.

السَّيْحَفُnoun

1.
broad bladeclassical
A broad or long sword blade.
2.
tall manclassical
A tall man.

سَيْحَفِيُّ اللِّسَانِadjective

1.
eloquentclassical
Describing someone who is eloquent or talkative.

سُحُوفٌnoun

1.
scooping bucketclassical
A bucket that scoops out all the water from a well.

سِحَافٌnoun

1.
fatsclassical
Fats served in dishes.

مِكْنَسَةٌnoun

1.
peeling toolclassical
A tool used for peeling meat.

مَسْحَفُ الْحَيَّةِnoun

1.
snake's trackclassical
The track or trail left by a snake on the ground.

السُّحْفَتَانِnoun

1.
sides of the philtrumclassical
The two sides of the philtrum (the groove between the nose and the upper lip).

السُّحْفَةُnoun

1.
fat on the backclassical
The layer of fat on an animal's back.

أَسْحَفَverb

1.
to sell fatclassical
To sell the fat from an animal's back.

Parallel reading

السحف، كالمنع: كشطك الشعر عن الجلد حتى لا يبقى منه شيء.

Al-sahf, like al-man', is your scraping of hair from the skin until nothing remains of it.

والسحائف: طرائق الشحم الذي بين طرائق الطفاطف، ونحو ذلك مما يرى من شحمة عريضة ملزقة بالجلد، وجمل وناقة سحوف: كثيرتها.

And al-sahā'if are strips of fat between layers of flesh, and the like of that which is seen of broad fat adhering to the skin, and a camel and a she-camel are sahūf: very fatty.

وسحف الشحم عن ظهرها، كمنع: قشرها

And he scraped the fat from its back, like he prevented: he peeled it.

والشيء: أحرقه

And the thing: he burned it.

والإبل: أكلت ما شاءت

And the camels: they ate what they wished.

والريح السحاب: ذهبت به، كأسحفته

And the wind the clouds: it went with it, as if it blew it away.

ورأسه: حلقه

And his head: he shaved it.

والنخلة، وغيرها: أحرقها

And the palm tree, and others: he burned it.

ومنه: رجل سحفنية، كبلهنية: للمحلوق الرأس.

And from it: a man sahfaniyyah, like balhaniyyah: for the one with a shaved head.

والسحوف من النوق: الطويلة الأخلاف، والضيقة الأحاليل، والتي إذا مشت جرت فراسنها على الأرض

And al-sahūf from the she-camels: the long-uddered, the narrow-teated, and she whose udder drags on the ground when she walks.

و من الغنم: الرقيقة صوف البطن، والمطرة التي تجرف ما مرت به

And from the sheep: the thin-wooled belly, and the rain that sweeps away what it passes by.

و من الرحى: صوتها إذا طحنت، وصوت الشخب.

And from the millstone: its sound when it grinds, and the sound of milking.

وكغراب: السل، وهو مسحوف: مسلول.

And like ghurāb: venereal disease, and it is masḥūf: one afflicted.

وناقة أسحوف الأحاليل، بالضم، وكإدرون: واسعتها، أو كثيرة اللبن يسمع لصوت شخبها سحفة.

And a she-camel asḥūf al-aḥālīl, with damma, and like idrūn: wide-uddered, or abundant in milk whose milking sound is heard as sahfah.

والأسحفان، بالضم: نبت له قرون كاللوبياء لا يؤكل ولا يرعى، يتداوى به من النسا.

And al-asḥufān, with damma: a plant with pods like lupins, which is not eaten nor grazed, it is used for treatment of sciatica.

والسيحف، كصيقل ودرفس وحنفس: النصل العريض، أو الطويل، والرجل الطويل.

And al-sayḥaf, like ṣayqal, durfus, and ḥanfas: the broad blade, or the long one, and the tall man.

ورجل سيحفي اللسان: لسن

And a man sayḥafī al-lisān: eloquent.

و اللحية: طويلها، كسيحفانيها.

And the beard: its length, like sayḥafāniyyāh.

ودلو سحوف: تجحف ما في البئر من الماء.

And a bucket sahūf: it scoops out what is in the well of water.

وصحاف فيها سحاف: شحوم.

And dishes with sahāf: fats.

وكمكنسة: التي تقشر بها اللحم.

And like miknasah: that by which meat is peeled.

ومسحف الحية، بالفتح: أثرها في الأرض.

And masḥaf al-ḥayyah, with fatha: its track on the ground.

والسحفتان: جانبا العنفقة.

And al-saḥaftān: the sides of the philtrum.

والسحفة: الشحمة التي على الظهر، وأسحف: باعها.

And al-saḥfah: the fat that is on the back, and he asḥafa: he sold it.