سَفِيطٌ
Root: سفط
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سَفِيطٌ
Cheerful, happy, or free from straitness, in mind: liberal, bountiful, or munificent. You say, هُوَسَفِطُ النَّفْسِ
He is cheerful, happy, or free from straitness, and liberal, in mind: or cheerful, or brisk, to do what is kind or beneficent. And نَفْسُهُ سَفِيطَةٌ بِكَذَا [His mind is pleased, or content, with such a thing].
def.2 Vile, or mean, and despised in all his circumstances: a man, or thing, of no estimation. Thus it has two contr. significations.
2 What drop from the tree, of green unripe dates. (M, L, K.[المُتَسافِطُ in the CK is a mistake for المُتَسَا قِطُ.])
def.3 أَمْوالُهُمْ سَفِيطَةٌ بَيْنَهُمْ Their possessions are mixed among them.
def.2 Vile, or mean, and despised in all his circumstances: a man, or thing, of no estimation. Thus it has two contr. significations.
2 What drop from the tree, of green unripe dates. (M, L, K.[المُتَسافِطُ in the CK is a mistake for المُتَسَا قِطُ.])
def.3 أَمْوالُهُمْ سَفِيطَةٌ بَيْنَهُمْ Their possessions are mixed among them.
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