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سِفٌّ

Root: سف

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سِفٌّ and سُفٌّ , or the former and سَفٌّ , The serpent called أَرْقَم: or the serpent that flies in the air: and sometimes peculiarly applied to the أَرْقَم: or the male serpent. And the Hudhalee poet EdDákhil Ibn-Harám uses the first of these words as meaning A man like a سِفّ.
2 See also سَفٌّ.
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