صَيْفٌ
as signifying A certain portion of the year is said by ISk to be fem.: (TA, voce شِتَآءٌ; q. v.:) [but by others I find it treated as masc.:] the صَيْف as meaning one of the seasons is well known: Lth says, it is one of the quarters of the year; and is applied by the vulgar to a half of the year [i. e. to the half-year commencing at the vernal equinox; the other half-year being called by them the شِتَآء]: Az says, it is, with the Arabs, the division which the vulgar in El-'Irákand Khurásán call theرَبِيع [i. e. the spring]; it consists of three months; and the division that next follows it is with the Arabs the قَيْظ; and in it is the جَمْرَة [q. v.] of the قِيْظ; then, after this, is the division called the خَرِيف; and then, after this, the division called the شِتَآء: [i. e.] it is the quarter of the year vulgarly called theرَبِيع, commencing when the sun enters Aries: but is applied by the vulgar to the قَيْظ, which is the [summer, i. e.] the quarter commencing when the sun enters Cancer: (Msb in art. زمن; q. v.:) [F says,] the صَيْف is the قَيْظ [i. e. summer, or the hot season]; or [the season] after theرَبِيع: and [Sgh says,] the صَيْف is one of the divisions of the year; which is after theرَبِيع: [but unless this explanation in the O denote only a vulgar meaning, and the latter of the two explanations in the K be virtually a repetition, we must suppose that, in each of them, by the ربيع is meant the season of rain thus termed, which ends in March: (see the latter of the two tables which I have inserted voce زَمَنٌ:) most probably, I think, both have been faultily transcribed from what here follows; for the S is largely copied in the O, and the S and O are among the principal sources of the K, which generally follows the O when it differs from the S:] the صَيْف is one of the divisions of the year; which is after [that called] الرَّبِيعُ الأَوَّلُand before [that called] القَيْظُ: [this admits of two renderings, both of which are correct; namely, the quarter after the season of two months calledالربيع الاوّلand before the quarter calledالقيظ ; and also the season of two months after that calledالربيع الاوّلand before the similar season calledالقيظ: but probably the latter only was meant by him who first gave. this explanation:] the pl. is أَصْيَافٌ and صُيُوفٌ:
صَيْفَةٌ is a more particular term [app. meaning A singleصَيْف; ]; it is like شَتْوَةٌ [q. v.]; and its pl. is صِيَفٌ, like بِدَرٌ pl. of بَدْرَةٌ. الصَّيْفَ ضَيَّعْتِاللَّبَنَ is a saying expl. in art. ضيع [q. v.]. 2الصَّيْفُ also signifies The rain that comes in the [season called] صَيْف; [see, again, the second of the tables to which I have referred above, and see also نَوٌْ;] and so
الصَّيِّفُ; also signifying the herbage thereof: or, accord. to Lth, the latter signifies the rain that falls after the division [a mistake for the rain] called theرَبِيع; and so the former; and it is also called
; which likewise signifies the herbage thereof. Hence the prov., relating to the completing of the performance of a needful affair, تَمَامُ الرَّبِيعِ الصَّيْفُ [The completion of the rain called theربيعis that called theصيف]: for the rain called the ربيع is the first rain, and the صيف is that which is [next] after it. 3آيَةُ الصَّيْفِ is [A verse] in the end (آخِر) ofسُورَةُ النِّسَآءِ [the 4th chapter of the Kur-án, but which verse I know not], mentioned in a tradition.
def.2 Also The female of theبُوم [or owl].
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