شَفَقٌ
Root: شفق
Full Definition
شَفَقٌ
Fear: [see also شَفِقَ, in the next preceding paragraph:] or fear [arising] from strictness (شِدَّة) of faithful or sincere or honest advice; as also
شَفَقَةٌ : or ↓ the latter signifies the fear of him who gives faithful or sincere or honest advice, in consequence of his doing so, for him to whom such advice is given: or the former, and ↓ the latter also, the eagerness, or striving, of him who gives such advice, to rectify, or amend, the state of him to whom that advice is given:
شَفَقَةٌ is subst. from الإِشْفَاقُ, and شَفَقٌ is syn. therewith as being also a subst. from الإِشْفَاقُ: [it is said that] the primary signification of
شَفَقَةٌ is weakness: and it is conjoined with خَوْفٌ [fear]; therefore it is not applied as an attribute to God: [generally] it signifies affection, kindness, benignity, compassion, or favourable inclination: [or solicitous affection &c.:] or pity, or compassion, and tenderness, and fear of the betiding of some disliked or evil event, together with faithful or sincere or honest advice.
def.2 شَفَقٌ also signifies The redness in the horizon from sunset until the time of the last عِشَآء [i. e. nightfall], when it disappears, and the white شَفَق remains until the middle [or rather until a late period varying at different seasons] of the night: or until near that time: or until near the عَتَمَة [q. v., generally meaning the same, or nearly so]: or the redness that is seen in the sky at sunset: or the remains of the light and redness of the sun in the first part of the night, until near the عَتَمَة: or the light and redness of the sun, seen at sunset, until the time of the prayer of nightfall: or the mixture of the light of day with the blackness of night at sunset: accord. to Zj, the redness that is in the region of sunset after the setting of the sun: this is the meaning given as of common repute in the books of lexicology; and Mtr says [in the Mgh] that it means the redness accord. to a number of the Companions of the Prophet and of the people of the generation next succeeding them: but accord. to Aboo-Hureyreh, it means the whiteness [after sunset, which, to distinguish it from the شَفَق commonly so called, is often termed the white شَفَق, as in an instance above]: IAth says that this word has two contr. meanings; being applied to the redness that is seen after sunset; and to the whiteness remaining in the western horizon after the said redness. Fr says, I heard one of the Arabs say, عَلَيْهِ ثَوْبٌ كَأَنَّهُ الشَّفَقُ [Upon him is, or was, a garment as though it were the شَفَق]: and it was red.
2 [Hence,]
3 And Day.
def.3 Also i. q. نَاحِيَةٌ
def.4 And
def.2 شَفَقٌ also signifies The redness in the horizon from sunset until the time of the last عِشَآء [i. e. nightfall], when it disappears, and the white شَفَق remains until the middle [or rather until a late period varying at different seasons] of the night: or until near that time: or until near the عَتَمَة [q. v., generally meaning the same, or nearly so]: or the redness that is seen in the sky at sunset: or the remains of the light and redness of the sun in the first part of the night, until near the عَتَمَة: or the light and redness of the sun, seen at sunset, until the time of the prayer of nightfall: or the mixture of the light of day with the blackness of night at sunset: accord. to Zj, the redness that is in the region of sunset after the setting of the sun: this is the meaning given as of common repute in the books of lexicology; and Mtr says [in the Mgh] that it means the redness accord. to a number of the Companions of the Prophet and of the people of the generation next succeeding them: but accord. to Aboo-Hureyreh, it means the whiteness [after sunset, which, to distinguish it from the شَفَق commonly so called, is often termed the white شَفَق, as in an instance above]: IAth says that this word has two contr. meanings; being applied to the redness that is seen after sunset; and to the whiteness remaining in the western horizon after the said redness. Fr says, I heard one of the Arabs say, عَلَيْهِ ثَوْبٌ كَأَنَّهُ الشَّفَقُ [Upon him is, or was, a garment as though it were the شَفَق]: and it was red.
2 [Hence,]
3 And Day.
def.3 Also i. q. نَاحِيَةٌ
def.4 And
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