أَسِيفٌ

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أَسِيفٌ Grieving, lamenting, or regretting, most intensely, on account of a thing that has escaped: and quickly affected with grief, and tender-hearted; as also أَسُوفٌ : or, as also أَسُوفٌ and أَسْفَانُ and آسِفٌ and أَسِفٌ , grieving exceedingly: or grieved: and sometimes the first signifies angry, and at the same time grieving, or lamenting: pl. أُسَفَآءُ. See also أَسِفٌ.
2 A slave: and a hired man: because of their state of abasement and subjection: fem. with ة: and pl. as above.
3 A captive.
4 A very old man: pl. as above: so in a trad., in which the slaying of such is forbidden.
5 One who scarcely, or never, becomes fat.
6 A region, or country, that does not give growth to anything, or produce any vegetation; as also أَسِيفَةٌ and and أَسَافَةٌ : and أَسَافَةٌ also signifies thin, or shallow, earth: and أَرْضٌ أَسِيفَةٌ, thin, or shallow, earth, which scarcely, or never, gives growth to anything, or produces any vegetation: or which is not commended for its vegetation: or, as also and أَسَافَةٌ , thin, or shallow, earth: or such as does not produce vegetation: and ↓ أَرْضٌ أَسِفَةٌ land which scarcely, or never, produces vegetation.

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