عَائِفٌ
Root: عيف
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عَائِفٌ
Disliking, or loathing, food or beverage: and
عَيُوفٌ and
, applied to a man, signify the same as عَائِفٌ [app. in this sense: see an ex. of the former in a verse of Ibn-Mukbil cited voce سَوْفَ, last sentence].
def.2 Auguring, or divining, from birds or other things.
2 كَانَ عَائِفًا, said of Shureyh, in a trad, of Ibn-Seereen, means He was true in conjecture and opinion: like the saying, of him who is right in his opinion, مَا هُوَ إِلَّا كَاهِنٌ; and of him who is eloquent in his speech, مَا هُوَ إِلَّا سَاحِرٌ.
def.3 طَيْرٌ عَائِفَةٌ Birds circling over water, or over carcasses or corpses, and going to and fro, not going away, desiring to alight. And نُسُورٌ عَوَائِفُ [Vultures] circling over the slain, and going to and fro.
def.2 Auguring, or divining, from birds or other things.
2 كَانَ عَائِفًا, said of Shureyh, in a trad, of Ibn-Seereen, means He was true in conjecture and opinion: like the saying, of him who is right in his opinion, مَا هُوَ إِلَّا كَاهِنٌ; and of him who is eloquent in his speech, مَا هُوَ إِلَّا سَاحِرٌ.
def.3 طَيْرٌ عَائِفَةٌ Birds circling over water, or over carcasses or corpses, and going to and fro, not going away, desiring to alight. And نُسُورٌ عَوَائِفُ [Vultures] circling over the slain, and going to and fro.
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