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ي س ف

Root entry · 4 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to the concept of flies or buzzing insects. It also appears in personal names and the name of a village.

Derived headwords

اليسفnoun
  1. 1.
    fliesclassical

    A term for flies or buzzing insects.

يسافname
  1. 1.
    Yasaafboth

    A name of a Tabi'i (successor) from Kufa, a freedman of the Ashja' tribe. He met Ali ibn Abi Talib.

يسافname
  1. 1.
    Yasaafboth

    The name of the father of Khubayb, a companion of the Prophet, from the Aws tribe of Medina.

ياسوفname
  1. 1.
    Yasufboth

    A village near Nablus in Palestine, known for its abundance of pomegranates.

Parallel reading

الذباب وأنشد لابن الرقاع يمدح مري بن ربيعة الكلبي حتى أتيتمريا وهو منكرس كالليث يضربه في الغابة اليسف
Flies, and it is narrated from Ibn al-Ruqaa' praising Murra ibn Rabi'ah al-Kalbi until you came to Murra, who was fierce like a lion striking in the forest, the flies.
ويروى: السعف وهما بمعنى
And it is narrated: 'al-sa'af', and they both mean the same thing.
قال: ولم نسمع بهذين إلا في هذا الشعر، قال، ولعلهما يكونان لغة لهؤلاء القوم
He said: And we have not heard these two except in this poetry, and he said, perhaps they are a dialect for these people.
تقول: هلال بن يساف، بالكسر
You say: Hilal ibn Yasaaf, with a kasra.
قال غيره: وقد يفتح
Others said: And it may be opened (with a fatha).
تابعي كوفى مولى أشجع، أدرك عليا رضي الله عنه
A Kufan Tabi'i, a freedman of Ashja', who met Ali, may Allah be pleased with him.
قال شيخنا: وصرح الإمام النووي بأن الأشهر عند أهل اللغة إساف بالهمزة
Our Sheikh said: Imam al-Nawawi stated that the most famous among the linguists is 'Isaf' with a hamza.
قلت: وذكره ابن حبان في الثقات، وقال: كنيته أبو الحسن، وروى عن أبي مسعود الأنصاري، ووابصة بن معبد، وروى عنه منصور بن المعتمر، وحصين
I say: And Ibn Hibban mentioned him in 'al-Thiqat' (The Trustworthy), and said: His kunya is Abu al-Hasan, and he narrated from Abu Mas'ud al-Ansari and Wabisa ibn Ma'bad, and narrated from him Mansur ibn al-Mu'tamir and Husayn.
يساف بن عتبة بن عمر والخزرجي، والد خبيب الصحابي
Yasaaf ibn Utbah ibn Amr al-Khazraji, the father of Khubayb the companion.
وياسوف: قرية قرب نابلس من فلسطين، توصف بكثرة الرمان
And Yasuf: a village near Nablus in Palestine, described by its abundance of pomegranates.