اشتفّ

Root: شف

Form: 8

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اشتفّVIII كُلَّهُ He drank what was in the vessel, all of it, even the شُفَافَة [or last drop or remains], not leaving any of it remaining; [and so اِجْتَفَّ;] as also : and المَآءَ He drank the water to the uttermost, not leaving any of it remaining; as also , Present.T شَفُفَ Verbal.Noun شَفٌّ: and المَآءَ I drank much of the water without having my thirst satisfied. [Hence,] in the trad. of Umm-Zara, وَإِنْ شَرِبَ ٱشْتَفَّ [And if he drank, he drank up all that was in the vessel]. And it is said in a prov., لَيْسَ الرِّىُّ عَنِ i. e. The satisfying of thirst is not from the drinking up all that is in the vessel; for it is sometimes effected by less than this: it is applied in forbidding one's going to the utmost in an affair, and persevering therein. Accord. to IAar, one says also تَشَافَيْتُ المَآءَ I exhausted the water; which, ISd says, is originally .
2 'Abd-Allah Ibn-Sebreh El-Harashee uses the first of these verbs metaphorically in relation to death; saying, سَاقَيْتُهُ المَوْتَ حَتَّى ٱشْتَفَّ آخِرَهُ meaning [I vied with him in giving the draught of death] until he drank the last of it, i. e., the last of death.
3 And اشتفّ البَعِيرُ الحِزَامَ كُلَّهُ means The camel filled, and took up wholly, the girth, so that nothing remained of it redundant, by reason of the largeness of the middle of his body.

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