أَسِفَI
, Present.T
ـَ Verbal.Nounأَسَفٌ, He grieved, lamented, or regretted: and he was angry: or he grieved exceedingly: and he was exceedingly angry: or he grieved most intensely: some say that أَسَفٌ signifies the grieving for a thing that has escaped; not in an absolute sense: or it properly signifies the rising, or swelling, or mantling, of the blood of the heart, from desire of vengeance; and when this is against an inferior, it is anger; but when against a superior, it is grief. Mo- hammad, being asked respecting sudden death, answered, saying, رَاحَةٌ لِلْمُؤْمِنِ وَأَخْذَةُ أَسَفٍ لِلْكَافِرِ, or accord. to one recital, , i. e. [Rest, or ease, to the believer, and an act of punishment] of anger [to the unbeliever], or of one who is angry. You say, أَسِفَ عَلَى مَا فَاتَهُ, Verbal.Noun as above; and
; He grieved, or lamented, for, or at, or regretted, most intensely, what had escaped him: and أَسِفَ عَلَيْهِ, Verbal.Noun as above, he was angry with him, or at it: or أَسِفَ فُلَانٌ عَلَى كَذَاوَكَذَا and
, signify, accord. to some, such a one grieved, or lamented, for, or at, such and such things which had escaped him: or, accord. to others, grieved, or lamented, most intensely.أَسَفًا in the Kur xviii. 5 means, accord. to Ed-Dahhák, جَزَعًا [i.e. In grief, or in most violent grief, &c.]: or, accord. to Katádeh, in anger. And يَا أَسَفَا عَلَى يُوسُفِ, in the Kur [xii. 84], means يَا جَزَعَاهُ [O my grief for Joseph: or O my most violent grief].
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