صف

The base verb has and: he set, or stationed, a company of men in war and the like, and a military force, and also a thing, in a rank, row, or line.

Maṣdar تَصْفِيفٌ; this form has an intensive meaning.

See also form 8, in three places.

Also صَفَفْتُ لِلسَّرْجِ صُفَّةً and صَفَفْتُ السَّرْجَ, and أَصْفَفْتُهُ, though this last verb is of weak authority. The thing put on is the صُفَّة.

Also صَفَّ لَهَا; the thing made is a صُفَّة.

See form 1, first sentence.

Apparently one says this as well: his صُفَّة stood over against the other's صُفَّة. See هُوَ مُصَافِّى below.

See form 1, last sentence.

See form 8.

التَّصَافُّ is explained in the O and K by التَّسَاطُرُ; the CK has, wrongly, التَّشاطُرُ.

maṣdar صَفٌّ and صَفَّى; ISd says he had not heard this last maṣdar except in a phrase mentioned below.

Hence the saying تَصُفُّ النِّسَآءُ خَلْفَ الرِّجَالِ وَلَا تَصُفُّ مَعَهُمْ: the women shall stand in a rank behind the men in the mosque, and shall not stand in a rank with them.

And hence the saying of a woman of the desert to her sons, إِذَا لَقِيتُمُ العَدُوَّ فَدَغَرَى وَلَا صَفَّى, that is, when you meet the enemy, rush upon them without consideration, and do not set yourselves in a rank. See also form 1 in art. دغر.

He journeyed alone in a صَفْصَف, a level tract of land; the O and copies of the K have سَارَ, "he journeyed", while the CK has صَارَ, "he became".

And he pastured upon the trees called صَفْصَاف.

Either as a maṣdar or as a simple noun; the word for the cry is صَوْت, and in some dialects the sparrow is called صُفْصُف.

A rank, row, or line of things; or an even صَدْر, that is, front or fore part, of any things; also a company of men standing in a rank, or row, or line. Plural صُفُوفٌ.

Said in a tradition, of the ranks in prayer.

The singular may also be used in the sense of the plural; in the Kur 18:46 it may be used either thus or as a singular.

Also a certain medicine with which the teeth are whitened.

An appertenance of a house, or of a building, like a wide بَهُو, here used in a postclassical sense as meaning a kind of vestibule, or portico, for shade and shelter, open in front, with a long roof or ceiling; the طُرَّة of a building. None of the authorities cited explains it.

The same as سَقِيفَةٌ and the same as ظُلَّةٌ, that is, a roof, or covering, for shade and shelter, over the door of a house, or extending from a house to another house opposite it, like سُدَّةٌ and سَقِيفَةٌ.

For the meaning assigned to it by Golius as from the S, and by Freytag as from the K and S, "scamnum discubitorium, fere ex lapidibus structum", I find no authority in any Arabic work. In Egypt it is applied to a shelf of marble or of common stone, about four feet high, supported by two or more arches, or by a single arch, figured and described in the Introduction to my work on the Modern Egyptians; this is apparently so called because it resembles a porch in form, though not in size.

The plural is صُفَفٌ and صِفَافٌ and صُفَّاتٌ.

أَهْلُ الصُّفَّةِ, the people of the صُفَّة, was a name applied to certain persons who were the guests of El-Islám, that is, supported by the charity of the Muslims: poor refugees and houseless men who passed the night in the صُفَّة of the Prophet's mosque in El-Medeeneh, a covered place belonging to the mosque, roofed over with palm-sticks. There they resorted for lodging; sometimes they were few, and sometimes many. SM says: I have drawn up a list of their names, in a tract, to the number of ninety-two, or ninety-three.

ISd says that عَذَابُ يَوْمِ الصُّفَّةِ, the punishment of the day of the صُفَّة, is the same as عَذَابُ يَوْمِ الظُّلَّةِ, mentioned in the Kur 26:189. Lth says that the former was a day on which a certain people disobeyed their apostle, so God sent upon them heat and clouds which overspread them, and they perished. Az says that it is not the same as the day mentioned in the Kur, and that he did not know what is meant by عذاب يوم الصفّة. It seems, however, that both mean the same, since الصُّفَّةُ and الظُّلَّةُ are one in meaning.

Ibn-'Abbád: a thing that a man wears beneath the coat of mail on the day of battle.

A she-camel that yields a row of bowls of her milk when she is milked, because of the abundance of her milk.

Or one for which two vessels are set side by side, and which fills them.

Or one that sets her fore legs evenly, side by side (تَصُفُّ يَدَيْهَا, see form 1), on the occasion of being milked.

See an example in a verse cited under صُوفٌ. And see also ضَفُوفٌ.

Flesh-meat such as has been laid, cut into a strip, or into strips, upon the live coals to broil or to become thoroughly cooked, or upon the pebbles and then roasted or broiled, or laid in the sun to dry.

Or flesh-meat cut into strips, or oblong pieces, and dried in the sun; or, as Lth says, and Ks in like manner, spread in the sun to dry.

Or flesh-meat cut into broad slices.

Khálid Ibn-Jembeh: flesh-meat cut into slices, not in the manner of قَدِيد, but made broad, like cakes of bread, which are generally about a span, or somewhat less, in width, round and flat.

Or cut thin so as to be translucent (see form 1, latter half).

Or flesh-meat made to boil once, and then taken up from the fire.

The صُوفِيَّة, so called in relation to those called أَهْلُ الصُّفَّةِ. See art. صوف.

Originally صَافِفٌ, ism fāʿil of صَفَّ.

This and its plural صَوَافُّ are adjectives applied to camels, from صَفَّتْ قَوَائِمَهَا.

صَوَافَّ means مَصْفُوفَةً, that is, set in a row, to be slaughtered, of the measure فَوَاعِل in the sense of the measure مَفَاعِل — so in the O, and also, probably copied from it, in the copies of the K, but correctly مَفَاعِيل; or it means مُصْطَفَّةً, standing in a row; or, as related by I 'Ab, it is صَوَافِنَ.

In the phrase وَٱلصَّافَّاتِ صَفًّا in the Kur 37:1, by الصَّافَّات are meant the angels standing in ranks in Heaven, glorifying God.

A level, or an even, tract of land or ground: so explained by AA, and by Mujáhid, of the word as used in the Kur 20:106; by others as meaning smooth; according to Fr, having in it no herbage; and according to IAar, bald. Plural صَفَاصِفُ.

أَرْضٌ صَفْصَفٌ means a smooth, and level, or even, land; and so, according to IJ, the feminine صَفْصَفَةٌ.

Also, or صَفْصَفَةٌ, apparently as an adjective in which the quality of a noun is predominant, a desert, or waterless desert, the same as فَلَاةٌ; from IDrd.

The sparrow, in some dialects.

Feminine of صَفْصَفٌ.

Also the same as سِكْبَاجَةٌ, the ism waḥda of سِكبَاجٌ: a mess of the kind of food so called.

Also صَفْصَافَةٌ, which is of the dialect of Thakeef.

And, according to Lth, a certain insect, called by the Persians the سِيسَك, that is, the weevil: a word not originally Arabic.

The tree called خِلَاف. In modern usage the latter is the salix Aegyptia of Linnaeus (Forskål's Flora Aegypt. Arab., p. 76, and Delile's Floræ Aegypt. Illustr., no. 934); and the صفصاف, according to Forskål in the same place, is the salix Babylonica, or this is called صَفْصَاف رُومِىّ (Delile, no. 932); and another species of salix is called in Egypt صَفْصَاف بَلَدِىّ (Forskål, same place, and Delile, no. 933).

Or so in the dialect of Syria; or a kind of tree of which the خِلَاف is a species.

Ism waḥda formed with ة.

See صَفْصَفَةٌ.

Also the ism waḥda of صَفْصَافٌ.

A station, or place where ranks are drawn up, in war, or battle. Plural مَصَافٌّ.

He is the person whose صُفَّة, that of his house, is over against, or facing, my صُفَّة.