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اسفّ

Root: سف

Form: 4

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اسفّIV : see 1, first sentence.
2 [Hence,] أَسْفَفْتُ الشَّىْءَ, Verbal.Noun إِسْفَافٌ, I stuck one part of the thing to another.
3 [And from the same signification, as is indicated in the O and TA,] اسّف النَّظَرَ He looked sharply, and hardly, and minutely, towards, or at, (إِلَى,) a person, and an affair, and AAF adds, and inclined towards the ground.

def.2 Also He fed a camel with dry herbage.
2 [Hence,] اسفّ الفَرَسَ اللِجَامَ He put the bit into the mouth of the horse.
3 And اسفّ الدَّوَآءَ He stuffed the wound with the medicament: or اسفّ الجُرْحَ دَوَآءً he put a medicament into the wound; as though he put سَفُوف to it.
4 And اسفّ الوَشْمَ نَؤُورًا He filled in the tattoo with نؤور [i. e. smoke-black of fat].
5 And أُسِفَّ وَجْهُهُ النَّؤُورَ His face was sprinkled with نؤور. It is said in a trad., فَكَأَنَّمَا أُسِفَّ وَجْهُهُ, meaning His face was altered, as though something that altered it had been sprinkled upon it. You say also, كَأَنَّ وَجْهَهُ أُسِفَّ رَمَادًا, meaning His face became of a blackish, or an ashy, hue, altered, as though ashes had been sprinkled upon it: and الرَّمَادُ فِى وَجْهِهِ [Ashes were sprinkled upon his face], meaning his face became altered.

def.3 Also It approached the earth, or ground; said of a bird in its flight; or of a bird &c.: or it flew over the ground so near that its feet almost reached it. And اسفّت السَّحَابَةُ The cloud approached the earth.
2 Said of a stallion, He stooped his head to bite. And one says of man, اسفّ مِنَ الأَرْضِ [and إِلَى الارض He stooped towards the ground]. (O in art. شب.)
3 And, said of a man, He pursued small, or little, things: and he followed after low, or mean, things: [ he stooped to such things:] or اسفّ إِلَى مَدَاقِ الأُمُورِ وَ أَلَائِمِهَا He approached [or pursued] small, or little, things, and the meanest, or most ignoble, thereof; or became mean, or ignoble: and اسفّ لِلْأَمْرِ الدَّنِىّ, [or correctly الدَّنِىْءِ,] and إِلَيْهِ, He approached [the thing that was near, or that was low, or mean]; from اسفّ said of a bird in its flight, meaning It approached the ground so that its feet almost touched it. [Hence the saying,] تَحَفَّظْ مِنْ الغَمَلِ السَّفْسَافِ وَلَاتُسِفَّ لَهُ بَعْضَ لإِسْفَافِ [Guard thyself from the bad action, and approach it not with any degree of approaching].
4 You say also, مَاأَسَفَّ مِنْهُ بِتَافِهٍ He obtained not [from him, or of it, a paltry acquisition], [or] anything.
5 And اسفّ He fled from his companion, running most vehemently.
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