سَقِيفَةٌ
Root: سقف
Full Definition
سَقِيفَةٌ
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صُفَّة, or the like, [i. e. a roof, or covering,] such as projects [over the door of a house], [or of which the ends of the beams rest upon opposite houses; i. e.] a
ظُلَّة; [often applied in the present day to a roofed, or covered, portion of a street or the like;] and any wing or porch or other thing [of a building] that is roofed over: of the measure فَعِيلَةٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولَةٌ: pl. سَقَائِفُ and [coll. gen. n.]
سَقِيفٌ .
2 Any broad piece of wood, such as a plank, or a broad piece of stone, with which one may form a roof to the lurking-place of a hunter &c. And [the pl.] سَقَائِفُ signifies The طوايق [app. a mistranscription for طَوَابِق, and, if so, meaning, agreeably with a modern usage, flat stones covering a hollow such as that] of the lurking-place of the hunter. [And The pieces of wood which form the roof of the kind of vehicle called مَحْمِل: see عَارِضَةٌ: and see also خُذْرُوفٌ.]
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7 And A broad and long piece of wood, which is put, or laid down, and upon which are wound the mats of reeds (البَوَارِىّ) above the house-tops of the people of El-Basrah. (TA. [See also سَفِيقَةٌ.])
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2 Any broad piece of wood, such as a plank, or a broad piece of stone, with which one may form a roof to the lurking-place of a hunter &c. And [the pl.] سَقَائِفُ signifies The طوايق [app. a mistranscription for طَوَابِق, and, if so, meaning, agreeably with a modern usage, flat stones covering a hollow such as that] of the lurking-place of the hunter. [And The pieces of wood which form the roof of the kind of vehicle called مَحْمِل: see عَارِضَةٌ: and see also خُذْرُوفٌ.]
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7 And A broad and long piece of wood, which is put, or laid down, and upon which are wound the mats of reeds (البَوَارِىّ) above the house-tops of the people of El-Basrah. (TA. [See also سَفِيقَةٌ.])
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