سَفْسَافٌ

Root: سف

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سَفْسَافٌ The dust of flour, that rises, or flies and rises, at the sifting.
2 The fine particles or dust: or such as rises, or spreads, of dust.
3 Hence, سَفْسَافُ الشِعْرِ What is bad of poetry, imperfectly, or unsoundly, done. (TA. [In the CK, الشَّعَرِ is erroneously put for الشِعْرِ; and Freytag appears to have read الشَّعِيرِ.]) سَفْسَافٌ signifies Bad poetry: and anything imperfectly, or unsoundly, done. Anything bad. Such as is bad of natural dispositions. And A contemptible, or despicable, thing or affair. It is said in a trad., إِنَّ ٱللّٰهَ يُحِبُّ مَعَالِىَ الأَمُورِ وَ يُبْغِضُ سَفْسَافَهَا, or يَكْرَهُ سَفْسَافَهَا, i. e. [Verily God loves lofty things, or things whereby one acquires eminence or nobility, and] hates paltry, and mean, things.

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