Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

سَافَهُ

Root: سيف

Form: 1

Full Definition

سَافَهُI , first pers. سِفْتُهُ, (S, O, Msb, K, [in the CK, erroneously, سُفْتُهُ,]) Present.T يَسِيفُ, Verbal.Noun سَيْفٌ, He struck him, or smote him, with the سَيْف [or sword]; as also تسيّفهُ .
2 See also 3.

def.2 سَيِفَ, Verbal.Noun سَيَفٌ; and ; [app., as seems to be indicated by the context, said of palm-trees (نَخْلٌ) or of palmbranches (سَعَفٌ), as meaning They had upon them what is termed سِيف, q. v.:] and سَيِفَت and are said of a palm-tree (نَخْلَةٌ) [app. as meaning it had سِيف upon it].


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