سَفَنَهُ

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سَفَنَهُI , Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun سَفْنٌ, i. q. قَشَرَهُ [i. e. He divested or stripped it of, or he stripped off, scraped off, rubbed off, abraded, or otherwise removed, its outer covering or integument, or superficial part; he pared it, peeled it, &c.: and he, or it, pared, peeled, stripped, or rubbed, it off; namely, anything superficial and generally a thing adhering to the surface of another thing]. Imra-el-Keys says, فَجَاءَ خَفِيًّا يَسْفِنُ الأَرْضَ بَطْنُهُ تَرَىالتُّرْبَ مِنْهُ لَاصِقًا كُلَّ مَلْصَقِ [And he came clandestinely, his belly paring the ground, thou seeing the dust sticking to him with the utmost sticking]; (S, M, L; but in the S, لَازِقًا and مَلْزَقِ;) meaning that he came cleaving to the ground in order that the objects of the chase might not see him and flee from him.
2 And He pared and smoothed it; as also سفّنهُ [but app. in an intensive sense, or used in relation to several objects].
3 And سَفَنَتِ الرِيحُ التُّرَابَ, Present.T as above, and so the Verbal.Noun, The wind reduced the dust to a fine powder: or سَفَنَت ِالرِيحُ التُّرَابَ عَنْ وَجْهِ الأرْضِ [The wind pared off the dust from the surface of the earth].
4 And سَفَنَتِ الرِّيحُ, Present.T ـُ Verbal.Noun سُفُونٌ, The wind blew upon the surface of the earth [app. removing the dust]; as also سَفِنَتِ, Present.T ـَ.
5 And السَّفِينَةُ تَسْفِنُ عَلَى وَجْهِ الأَرْضِ The ship, or boat, sticks upon the ground.

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