previous next
إِِسْكَافٌ ذ (Sh, S, M, Msb, K, &c.) and ↓ أُسْكُوفٌ (Sh, S, M, K) and ↓ أَسْكَفٌ and ↓ سَكَّافٌ and ↓ سَيْكَفٌ (K) A maker of boots, (Sh, Msb, K,) or of shoes or sandals; (MA;) or a sewer of boots &c.: (Msb;) or the first word, (Msb, K, TA,) as used by the Arabs [of the desert], (Msb, TA,) any artificer, or artisan, (Msb, K, TA,) thus expl. in the M, and so its three [perhaps a mistake for four] dial. vars., but said by J [in the S] to be a meaning not known, (TA,) except the maker of boots, for he is called ↓ أَسْكَفٌ , (K, TA,) i. e. when they mean such as is called إِِسْكَافٌ in the cities or towns or villages: (TA:) or a carpenter; (K;) in which sense it is used by Esh-Shemmákh, but J says, [in the S,] only on the ground of supposition; (TA;) and any handicraftsman who works with an iron tool: (AA, K, * TA:) pl. أَسَاكِفَةٌ (S, Msb, TA) [and أَسَاكِيفُ]. ― -b2- Also the first word, Skilful with an affair. (O, K.) Sh says, I heard El-Fak'asee say, إِِنَّكَ لإِِسْكَافٌ بِهٰذَا الأَمْرِ, meaning Verily thou art skilful with this affair. (O.) -A2- Accord. to Ibn-'Abbád, الإِِسْكَافُ is also used (O, K) by Ibn-Mukbil (O) as meaning The redness of wine: but this is a mistranscription, (O, K,) and a perversion of the meaning: (O:) the right word is الإِِسْكَاب. (O, K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

The U.S. Department of Education, The Max Planck Society provided support for entering this text.

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.

hide Dictionary Entry Lookup
Use this tool to search for dictionary entries in all lexica.
Search for in
hide Display Preferences
Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar: