صَافٍ
Root: صفو
Full Definition
صَافٍ
Clear, limpid, or pure; free from
كَدَر [or turbidness, &c.]; and so
صَفِىٌّ , applied to anything. Applied to pasturage, the former word may mean Clear of dried-up leaves or similar rubbish: or it may be formed by transposition from صَائِفٌ, meaning “ of the [season called] صَيْف, ” and so belonging to art. صيف. (M. [See also صَافٍ in another sense as formed by transposition from صَائِفٌ, voce صَافٌ, in art. صوف.]) In the phrase اللَّوْنِ applied by the poet Kutheiyir-'Azzeh to honey (جَنَاةُ النَّحْلِ), and expl. as meaning Clear in respect of colour, [ISd says,] I think that صفاة is originally صَفِيَة, as a possessive epithet. [صَافٍ is also applied to a sword, and the like, as meaning Bright, or free from rust.] And in the Kur xxii. 37, [instead of the common reading صَوَافَّ, pl. of صَافٌّ and صَافَّةٌ,] some read صَوَافِىَ, [pl. of صَافِيَةٌ, as well as of صَافٍ applied to irrational animals,] as meaning that the animals there mentioned are [to be regarded as] things purely [or exclusively] belonging to God.
2 See also صَفْوَانُ.
def.2 Also A certain fish, which [it is said] chews the cud; pl. صَوَافٍ.
2 See also صَفْوَانُ.
def.2 Also A certain fish, which [it is said] chews the cud; pl. صَوَافٍ.
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