Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

صَفُوقٌ

Root: صفق

Full Definition

صَفُوقٌ An abominable acclivity or ascending road or mountain-road difficult of ascent: pl. صَفَائِقُ and صُفُقٌ. And A mountain, or an obstacle, or elevated portion, of mountains, such as is inaccessible. And A smooth, high rock: pl. صُفُقٌ.

def.2 Also, applied to a bow, Pliant.
2 [In the TA, in a verse of Aboo-Dhu-eyb describing a bow, to which it seems to be there applied as an epithet, it is expl. as signifying راجعة; but I think that this is a mistranscription for رَاجِفَةٌ, meaning Quivering.
3 Freytag has assigned to it three explanations which belong to صِفَاقٌ.]


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