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صَيْرَفٌ ذ One who practices art or artifice or cunning, in the disposal, or management, of affairs; (S, M, O, K;) as also ↓ صَيْرَفِىٌّ ; (S, O, K;) 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, “ وَلِسَانًا صَيْرَفِيًّا صَارِمًا
كَحُسَامِ السَّيْفِ مَا مَسَّ قَطَعْ
” [And a cunning, sharp tongue, like the edge of the sword, what it touches it cuts]. (S, O.) ― -b2- See also what next follows.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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