Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

صَيْفِىٌّ

Root: صيف

Full Definition

صَيْفِىٌّ A thing of, or belonging to, the [season called] صَيْف.
2 A young camel born in the صَيْف. [And in like manner a sheep or goat: see صَفَرِىٌّ.]
3 And [hence,] A son born to a father [in the summer of his age, i. e.] old, or advanced in age. [See an ex. in a verse cited voce رِبْعِىٌّ.]
4 See also صَيْفٌ, near the end of the paragraph.
5 صَيْفِيَّةٌ [used as a subst., or as an epithet in which the quality of a subst. is predominant, for مِيرَةٌ صَيْفِيَّةٌ,] and صَائِفَةٌ signify The مِيرَة [or provision of corn &c.] in the first part of the صَيْف [here meaning spring]; i. e. the second ميرة; for the first of the مِيرَ is the رِبْعِيَّة, then the صَيْفِيَّة, then the دَفَئِيَّة, and then the رَمَضِيَّة: or the of a people is their مِيرَة in the صَيْف. [See مِيرَةٌ.]
6 [صَيْفِيَّةٌ is also applied to The latter, or last, season of the bringing forth of camels; so in an explanation of هُبَعٌ in the S and TA.]


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