Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

اسعف

Root: سعف

Form: 4

Full Definition

اسعفIV , Verbal.Noun إِسْعَافٌ, It drew near, or approached: and اسعف بِهِ it drew near, or approached, to him, or it.
2 اسعف لَهُ It became within his power, or reach.
3 اسعف إِلَيْهِ He tended, repaired, or betook himself, to, or towards, him, or it.
4 اسعف بِأَهْلِهِ He came to his family; syn. أَلَمَّ. [And in a similar sense the verb is trans. without a particle, as will be shown by the last sentence of this paragraph.]

def.2 أَسْعَفْتُهُ I aided, assisted, or helped, him to perform his affair.
2 And اسعفهُ بِحَاجَتِهِ, Verbal.Noun إِسْعَافٌ, He performed, or accomplished, for him the object of his want; as also بِهَا, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun سَعْفٌ.
3 It is said in a trad., thus related, فَاطِمَةُ بَضْعَةٌ مِنِّى يُسْعِفُنِى مَا يُسْعِفُهَا, meaning [Fátimeh is a part of me:] that betides, or happens to, [or affects,] me which betides, or happens to, [or affects,] her. (TA. [See another reading in art. بضع.])


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