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Multiple Lane's Lexicon entries share the spelling أسقف, distinguished by diacritics. Select the entry that matches the word you're looking for.

• أَسْقَفَ Form 4

  أَسْقَفَIV see 1.…

• أَسْقَفُ

  أَسْقَفُ Tall, and bent, or bowed; applied to a man, and to an ostrich, &c.; as also with damm, i. e. : fem. سَقْفَآءُ, mentioned by IB as an epithet applied to a female ostrich: and hence the of the Christians, accord.…

• أُسْقُفٌ

  أُسْقُفٌ : see the next preceding paragraph: 2 and the next following also.…

• أُسْقُفٌّ

  أُسْقُفٌّ and أُسْقُفٌ , as also سَقْفٌ and سَقْفٌ , [each a variation of] a foreign word used by the Arabs, [from the Greek ἐπίσκοπος, A bishop; i. e.] a headman of the Christians in religion; or [more exactly] one who …