سأف

See also: ساف

Arabic

Etymology

See سَعَف (saʕaf, palm branches having leaves), as سَأَف (saʔaf) is glossed the opposite, “palm branches stripped of leaves”.

Verb

سَأَفَ • (saʔafa) I, non-past يَسْأَفُ‎ (yasʔafu) (obsolete)

  1. to be rent, to be pared, to be chapped, to be affected by fissures, to have fibres or rind or keratin divided

Conjugation

Alternative forms

  • سَئِفَ (saʔifa), verbal noun سَأَف (saʔaf)
  • اِنْسَأَفَ (insaʔafa), form VII

Noun

سَأَف • (saʔaf) m (collective, singulative سَأَفَة f (saʔafa)) (obsolete)

  1. palm branches stripped of leaves
  2. bristles, hair at the end of the tail of a wolf

Declension

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “سأف”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 272
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “سأف”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 1036
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “سأف”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 474
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