شِفٌّ
Root: شف
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شِفٌّ
: see شَفٌّ, in three places.
def.2 Also, and شَفٌّ , but the former is that which is well known, and شَفِيفٌ , Gain, or profit; increase obtained in traffic: and excess, surplus, or redundance: syn. رِبْحٌ [q. v.] : and فَضْلٌ; and زِيَادَةٌ. Hence نَهَى عَنْ شِفِّ مَا لَم يُضْمَنْ, meaning [He forbade] the رِبْح [i. e. gain, or profit, of that for which one has not made himself responsible to the purchaser]. And one says, لِهٰذَا عَلَى هٰذَا شِفّق [There is, or pertains, to this, an excess above this]. And قَالَ قَوْلًا شِفًّا He said a saying that was a redundance.
2 And A deficiency: thus having two contr. meanings.
3 Also, the first word, i. q. مَهْنَأٌ: one says to a person when regarding him with a wish for the like of a thing that he has attained, or that he possesses, without desiring that it should pass away from him, شِفٌّ لَكَ يَا فُلَانُ [May it be an unalloyed gratification to thee, O such a one].
4 And A thing that is little, or small, in quantity; mean, or paltry. [See also شَفِيفٌ, last signification.]
def.2 Also, and شَفٌّ , but the former is that which is well known, and شَفِيفٌ , Gain, or profit; increase obtained in traffic: and excess, surplus, or redundance: syn. رِبْحٌ [q. v.] : and فَضْلٌ; and زِيَادَةٌ. Hence نَهَى عَنْ شِفِّ مَا لَم يُضْمَنْ, meaning [He forbade] the رِبْح [i. e. gain, or profit, of that for which one has not made himself responsible to the purchaser]. And one says, لِهٰذَا عَلَى هٰذَا شِفّق [There is, or pertains, to this, an excess above this]. And قَالَ قَوْلًا شِفًّا He said a saying that was a redundance.
2 And A deficiency: thus having two contr. meanings.
3 Also, the first word, i. q. مَهْنَأٌ: one says to a person when regarding him with a wish for the like of a thing that he has attained, or that he possesses, without desiring that it should pass away from him, شِفٌّ لَكَ يَا فُلَانُ [May it be an unalloyed gratification to thee, O such a one].
4 And A thing that is little, or small, in quantity; mean, or paltry. [See also شَفِيفٌ, last signification.]
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