صَفَرِىٌّ
Root: صفر
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صَفَرِىٌّ
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صَفَرِيَّةٌ The increase, or offspring, (نِتَاج,) of sheep or goats (S, M, K [in the CK, او is erroneously put for و before this explanation]) after that called
قَيْظِىٌّ: or at the period of the [auroral] rising of Suheyl [or Canopus, which, in Central Arabia, at the commencement of the era of the Flight, was about the 4th of August, O. S.; here erroneously said in the M to be in the beginning of winter]: or ↓ the latter word signifies [as above, and also the period itself above mentioned: or] the period from the rising of Suheyl to the setting of
الذِّرَاع [the Seventh Mansion of the Moon, which, in the part and age above mentioned, was about the 3rd of January, O. S.], when the cold is intense; and then breeding is approved: or the period from the rising of Suheyl to the rising of
السِّمَاك [the Fourteenth Mansion of the Moon, which, in the part and age above mentioned, was about the 4th of October, O. S.], commencing with forty nights of varying, or alternating, heat and cold, called
المُعْتَدِلَاتُ: the first increase [of sheep and goats] is the صَقَعِىّ, which is when the sun smites (تَصْقَعُ) the heads of the young ones; and some of the Arabs call it the شَمْسِىّ, and the قَيْظِىّ: then is the صَفَرِىّ, after the صَقَعِىّ; and that is when the fruit of the palm-tree is cut off: then, the شَتَوِىّ, which is in the [season called] رَبِيع: then, the دَفَئِىّ, which is when the sun becomes warm: then, the صَيفِىّ: then, the قَيْظِىّ: then, the خَرَفِىّ, in the end of the [season called] قَيْظ: or صَفَرِيَّةٌ signifies, and so صَفَرِىٌّ, the [period of the] departure of the heat and the coming of the cold: or the period between the departure of the summer and the coming of the winter: or the first of the seasons; [app. meaning the autumnal season, called
الخَرِيف, which was the first of the four, and of the six, seasons; or perhaps the first of the seasons of rain, commonly called
الوَسْمِىّ;] and it may be a month: or the latter, or both, the beginning of the year. [Hence,] أَيَّامُ
Twenty days of, or from, (مِنْ,) the latter part of the summer, or hot season. (TA voce حُلَّبٌ.)
2 Also the former, or ↓ both, The rain that comes in the beginning of autumn: or from the period of the rising of Suheyl to that of the setting of الذِّرَاع [expl. above].
3 Also the latter, or ↓ both, A plant that grows in the beginning of the autumn: so called, accord. to AHn, because the beasts become yellow when they pasture upon that which is green; their arm-pits and similar parts, and their lips and fur, becoming yellow; but [ISd says,] I have not found this to be known.
2 Also the former, or ↓ both, The rain that comes in the beginning of autumn: or from the period of the rising of Suheyl to that of the setting of الذِّرَاع [expl. above].
3 Also the latter, or ↓ both, A plant that grows in the beginning of the autumn: so called, accord. to AHn, because the beasts become yellow when they pasture upon that which is green; their arm-pits and similar parts, and their lips and fur, becoming yellow; but [ISd says,] I have not found this to be known.
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