صَيْرَفٌ
Root: صرف
Full Definition
صَيْرَفٌ
One who practices art or artifice or cunning, in the disposal, or management, of affairs; as also
صَيْرَفِىٌّ ; which latter is applied by the poet Suweyd Ibn-Abee-Káhil El-Yeshkuree [in the like sense] as an epithet to a tongue, in his saying,
2 See also what next follows.
[And a cunning, sharp tongue, like the edge of the sword, what it touches it cuts].وَلِسَانًا صَيْرَفِيًّا صَارِمًا كَحُسَامِ السَّيْفِ مَا مَسَّ قَطَعْ
2 See also what next follows.
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