شَارِفٌ

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شَارِفٌ : see شَرِيفٌ.
2 Applied to a she-camel, High [app. meaning much advanced] in age: or advanced in age; decrepit; as also شَارِفَةٌ: [see دَلُوقٌ, in three places:] pl. شُرْفٌ, like بُزْلٌ and عُوذٌ pls. of بَازِلٌ and عَائِذٌ, or شُرُفٌ, like كُتُبٌ, or the latter is allowable in poetry, or the former is a contraction of the latter, and شَوَارِفُ [also pl. of شَارِفَةٌ] and شُرَّفٌ and شُرُوفٌ: it is said that شَارِفٌ is not applied to the he-camel; but it is so applied, as well as to the she-camel, accord. to the Towsheeh of El-Jelál. Hence, as being likened to black decrepit she-camels, الشُّرُفُ الجُونُ, with two dammehs, [which I think a mistake, unless it mean with a dammeh to each word,] or الشَّرْفُ الجُونُ, occurring in a trad., meaning [Trials, or conflicts and factions,] like portions of the dark night: thus expl. by the Prophet: but some relate it otherwise, with ق, saying الشُّرْقُ الجون, pl. of شَارِقٌ, meaning “ [trials, &c.,] rising from the direction of the east. ”
3 Also applied to an arrow, as meaning Old: and applied to a garment or a piece of cloth [app. in the same sense]: (A and TA voce طَرِيدٌ:) or an arrow long since laid by [expl. by بَعِيدُ العَهْدِ بِالصِّيَابَةِ; but I think that the right reading is بعيد العهد لِالصِّيَانَةِ, and have assumed this to be the case in my rendering]: or of which the feathers and the sinews [wherewith they are bound] have become uncompact: or slender and long.
4 دَنٌّ شَارِفٌ [A wine-jar] of which the wine is old.
5 And شَارِفٌ [alone] A receptacle for wine, such as a خَابِيَة and the like thereof.

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