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صَرِيفٌ

Root: صرف

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صَرِيفٌ Verbal.Noun of 1 in the senses expl. in the last sentence but one of the first paragraph [q. v.].

def.2 See also صِرْفٌ.
2 Applied to milk, Just milked; brought away from the udder while hot, when milked.
3 Also Dry سَعَف [or palmbranches]: n. un. with ة: [i. e.] صَرِيفَةٌ signifies a dry سَعَفَة. And AHn says, in one place, الصَّرِيفُ signifies, as some assert, What has become dry, of trees; like الضَّرِيعُ; called in Pers. حُذْخُوش, (so in copies of the K, in the CK خُدْخُوش, and in the O الخَذْخُوَش, [all app. mistranscriptions, for I find nothing like them in Pers. except partially, i. e. خُوش meaning “ dry, ” like خُشْك,]) and also called [in Arabic] القَفْلَةُ [the tree that has become dry]. [See also صَرِيعٌ, with the unpointed ص.]

def.3 Also Silver: so in a verse cited voce إِنْ : or pure silver.

def.4 See also the next paragraph.
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