أَصْفَرُ
Root: صفر
Full Definition
أَصْفَرُ
[a comparative and superlative epithet form صَفَرَ]. One says أَصْفَرُ مِنْ بُلْبُلٍ [A greater whistler, or warbler, than the
بلبل].
def.2 See also صِفْرٌ.
2 [Also More, and most, empty, void, or vacant.] It is said in a trad., أَصْفَرُ البُيُوتِ مِنَ الخَيْرِ البَيْتُ الصِّفْرُ مِنْ كِتَابِ ٱللّٰهِ [That one of houses which is the most void of good is the house that is destitute of the Book of God].
def.3 Also [Yellow;] of the colour termed صُفْرَةٌ: fem. صَفْرَآءُ: pl. صُفْرٌ. And Black is sometimes thus termed: applied to a camel, as in the Kur lxxvii. 33, because a black camel always has an intermixture of yellow: or, applied to a camel, of a colour whereof the ground is black, with some yellow hairs coming through. Applied to a horse, Of the colour termed in Pers. زَرْدَهْ [a kind of sorrel], but not unless having a yellow [or sorrel] tail and mane.
2 بَنُو الأَصْفَرِ The Greeks (الرُّومُ): or their kings: because the sons of El-Asfar the son of Room the son of 'Eesoo the son of Is-hák [or Isaac] the son of Ibráheem [or Abraham]: or El-Asfar was a surname of Room: or they were so called because their first ancestor, Room the son of 'Eysoon, was of a yellow complexion: or because they were conquered by an army of Abyssinians by whom their women had yellow children: [or] they are the modern Muscovites.
3 الأَصْفَرَانِ Gold and saffron; which are said to destroy women: or the plant called وَرْس and saffron: or the plant called وَرْس and gold: or saffron and raisins.
4 And الصَّفْرَآءُ Gold. (M, K. [See also صُفْرٌ.]) Hence the saying of 'Alee, يَا صَفْرَآءُ ٱصْفَرِّى وَيَا بَيْضَآءُ ٱبْيَضِّى وَغُرِّى غَيْرِى O gold, [be yellow,] and O silver, [be white, and beguile other than me:] and one says also, مَا لِفُلَانٍ صَفْرَآءُ وَلَا بَيْضَآءُ [There is not belonging to such a one gold nor silver].
5 Also A kind of bile, well-known; [the yellow bile; one of the four humours of the body; of which the others are the black bile (السَّوْدَآءُ), the blood (الدَّمُ), and the phlegm (البَلْغَمُ):] so called because of its colour.
6 And The bow that is made of [the tree called] نَبْع.
7 And The female locust that is devoid of eggs.
8 And A certain plant, of the plain or soft tracts, and of the sands, and sometimes growing in hard level ground: or a certain herb, that spreads upon the ground, the leaves of which are like those of the خَسّ [or lettuce], and which the camels eat vehemently: it is of the kind called ذُكُور.
def.2 See also صِفْرٌ.
2 [Also More, and most, empty, void, or vacant.] It is said in a trad., أَصْفَرُ البُيُوتِ مِنَ الخَيْرِ البَيْتُ الصِّفْرُ مِنْ كِتَابِ ٱللّٰهِ [That one of houses which is the most void of good is the house that is destitute of the Book of God].
def.3 Also [Yellow;] of the colour termed صُفْرَةٌ: fem. صَفْرَآءُ: pl. صُفْرٌ. And Black is sometimes thus termed: applied to a camel, as in the Kur lxxvii. 33, because a black camel always has an intermixture of yellow: or, applied to a camel, of a colour whereof the ground is black, with some yellow hairs coming through. Applied to a horse, Of the colour termed in Pers. زَرْدَهْ [a kind of sorrel], but not unless having a yellow [or sorrel] tail and mane.
2 بَنُو الأَصْفَرِ The Greeks (الرُّومُ): or their kings: because the sons of El-Asfar the son of Room the son of 'Eesoo the son of Is-hák [or Isaac] the son of Ibráheem [or Abraham]: or El-Asfar was a surname of Room: or they were so called because their first ancestor, Room the son of 'Eysoon, was of a yellow complexion: or because they were conquered by an army of Abyssinians by whom their women had yellow children: [or] they are the modern Muscovites.
3 الأَصْفَرَانِ Gold and saffron; which are said to destroy women: or the plant called وَرْس and saffron: or the plant called وَرْس and gold: or saffron and raisins.
4 And الصَّفْرَآءُ Gold. (M, K. [See also صُفْرٌ.]) Hence the saying of 'Alee, يَا صَفْرَآءُ ٱصْفَرِّى وَيَا بَيْضَآءُ ٱبْيَضِّى وَغُرِّى غَيْرِى O gold, [be yellow,] and O silver, [be white, and beguile other than me:] and one says also, مَا لِفُلَانٍ صَفْرَآءُ وَلَا بَيْضَآءُ [There is not belonging to such a one gold nor silver].
5 Also A kind of bile, well-known; [the yellow bile; one of the four humours of the body; of which the others are the black bile (السَّوْدَآءُ), the blood (الدَّمُ), and the phlegm (البَلْغَمُ):] so called because of its colour.
6 And The bow that is made of [the tree called] نَبْع.
7 And The female locust that is devoid of eggs.
8 And A certain plant, of the plain or soft tracts, and of the sands, and sometimes growing in hard level ground: or a certain herb, that spreads upon the ground, the leaves of which are like those of the خَسّ [or lettuce], and which the camels eat vehemently: it is of the kind called ذُكُور.
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