مُسْلِفٌ
Root: سلف
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مُسْلِفٌ
, thus in some copies of the K, as in the S &c., but in other copies of the K, erroneously, سُلْفٌ , A woman that has attained the age of five and forty years, and the like: or i. q.
نَصَفٌ [i. e. middle-aged, or forty-five years old, or fifty years old]: an epithet specially applied to a female. A poet says,
[Among them three females like the images of ivory, or of marble, &c., and one with swelling breasts, and one of middle age, &c.]. (S, M: in the O with إِلَى in the place of فِيهَا.)وَكَاعِبٌ وَمُسْلِفُ فِيهِ ثَلَاثٌ كَالدُّمَى
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