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سِجْفٌ ذ and ↓ سَجْفٌ [of which the former is the more common] A curtain; a veil; or a thing that veils, conceals, hides, covers, or protects; (S, K;) as also ↓ سِجَافٌ , and ↓ سِجَافَةٌ : (TA:) or a pair of curtains having an opening between them: (IDrd, K:) or each half of a pair of curtains, (Lth, K, TA,) divided in the midst, (Lth, TA,) by which any door, or entrance, is veiled; (Lth, K, TA;) as also ↓ سِجَافٌ : (K, TA:) this last is not a pl. of سِجْفٌ: (TA:) thus السِّجْفَانِ signifies the two separate halves [that hang side by side, so as to meet together,] of the curtain of a tent, (Lth, S, TA,) in the fore part thereof: (S:) so in a verse of En-Nábighah EdhDhubyánee cited in the second paragraph of art. رفع: (S, TA:) the pl. of سِجْفٌ and سَجْفٌ is أَسْجَافٌ and سُجُوفٌ; and the pl. of ↓ سِجَافٌ is سُجُفٌ. (TA.) [Hence] one says, أَرْخَى اللَّيْلُ سُجُوفَهُ (tropical:) The night let down its curtains. (TA.) ― -b2- سِجْفٌ also signifies The part that is behind a door or an entrance. (O, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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