Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

أُسْكُفَّةٌ

Root: سكف

Full Definition

أُسْكُفَّةٌ The threshold of a door, upon which one treads; as also أُسْكُوفَةٌ : or the lintel of a door: and sometimes [or rather almost universally] used in the former sense, which is the only meaning mentioned in the T [and] in the Abridgment of the 'Eyn [and in most other lexicons]: pl, اسكاف [app. أَسْكَافٌ, and, if so, anomalous].

def.2 Also The خرقة [i. e. خِرْقَة, or rag, or ragged garment, or perhaps it is a mistranscription for حِرْفَة, i. e. craft, or handicraft, like سِكَافَةٌ,] of the إِسْكَاف: extr.: on the authority of Fr.


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