Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

مِصْيَافٌ

Root: صيف

Full Definition

مِصْيَافٌ , applied to land (أَرْضٌ), Having in it abundance of the rain of the [season called] صَيْف.
2 And, so applied, Late in producing herbage.
3 See also مُصِيفٌ.
4 [Hence,] A man who does not take a wife until he has whiteness in the hair of his head mixed with the blackness thereof.


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