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صَفَرَ
ذ
aor.
صَفِرَ
, inf. n.
صَفِيرٌ, (S, M, K,) with which ↓
صُفَارٌ is syn. in a phrase mentioned below; (S;) and ↓
صفّر , (M, K,) inf. n.
تَصْفِيرٌ; (TA;)
He, or
it, (a bird, a vulture, S, and a serpent, or the
أَسْوَد, or
أَعْرَج, or
اِبْن قِتْرَة, or
أَصَلَة, M,)
whistled; syn.
مكَا; (S;)
made, or
uttered, a certain sound, (M, Msb, * K,)
without the utterance of letters. (Msb.) [It is mostly said of a bird: see an ex. voce
جَوٌّ.] One says [also],
صَفَرَ
فِى الصَّفَّارَةِ [
He whistled in the whistle]. (M, K.) And
صَفَرَ بِالْحِمَارِ, and ↓
صفّر ,
He called the ass to water [
by whistling; for to do thus is the common custom of the Arabs]. (M, K.) And Fr mentions the phrase, ↓
كَانَ فِى كَلَامِهِ صَفَارٌ , meaning
صَفِيرٌ [i. e.
There was in his speech a whistling]. (S.) -A2-
صَفِرَ, aor.
صَفَرَ
, inf. n.
صَفَرٌ (S, M, A, K, &c.) and
صُفُورٌ; (M, K;) and accord. to the T,
صَفَرَ, aor.
صَفُرَ
, inf. n.
صُفُورَةٌ; (TA;)
It, or
he, was, or
became, empty, void, or
vacant; (S, M, A, Msb, K;) namely, a house or tent; (S;) or a vessel, (S, M, &c.,)
مِنَ الطَّعَامِ وَالشَّرَابِ [
of food and beverage]; and a skin,
مِنَ اللَّبَنِ [
of milk]; (TA;) and a hand; (A;) and a thing; (S, M;) and accord. to ISk,
صَفِرَ, aor
صَفَرَ
, inf. n.
صَفِيرٌ, is said of a man. (TA.) [See also 4, last sentence but one.] One says,
نَعُوذُ بِاللّٰهِ مِنْ قَرَعِ الفِنَآءِ وَصَفَرِ
الإِِنَآءِ (S, M, A) [
We seek preservation by God from the yard's becoming void of cattle, and the vessel's becoming empty;] meaning,
from the perishing of the cattle. (S.) And
صَفِرَتْ وِطَابُهُ, (M, A, K, [in the CK, erroneously,
وَطْاَتُهُ,]) and
صَفِرَ إِِنَاؤُهُ, (A,) [lit.
His milk-skins, and
his vessel, became empty;] meaning (tropical:)
he died; (M, K;)
he perished. (A. [See also other explanations in art.
وطب.]) -A3-
صُفِرَ, (M, K,) inf. n.
صَفْرٌ, (K,)
He had what is termed
صُفَار, i. e.
yellow water in his belly. (M, K.)
2
صَفَّرَ
see above, in two places. -A2- and see 4. -A3- Also
صفّرهُ, (S, M, K,) inf. n.
تَصْفِيرٌ, (K,)
He made it yellow: (S:)
he dyed it yellow; (M, K;) namely, a garment, or piece of cloth. (M.)
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اصفرهُ
ذ
He emptied it; or
made it void, or
vacant; namely, a house or tent [&c.]; (M, K;) as also ↓
صفّرهُ , (K,) inf. n.
تَصْفِيرٌ. (TA.) The Arabs say,
مَا أَصْغَيْتُ لَكَ إِِنَآءً وَلَا أَصْفَرْتُ لَكَ فِنَآءً [
I have not overturned a vessel belonging to thee, nor have I emptied a yard belonging to thee]; meaning I have not taken thy camels nor thy property, so that thy vessel should be overturned and thou shouldst find no milk to milk into it, and so that thy yard should be empty, plundered, no camel or sheep or goat lying in it: it is said in excusing oneself. (M.) -A2- [Accord. to Freytag,
اصفر signifies also
It (a house)
was, or
became, empty, or
void, of (
مِنْ) household-goods: so that it is syn. with
صَفِرَ: and this is probably correct: for ― -b2- ]
أَصْفَرَ, (S, K,) also, (K,) signifies
He was, or
became, poor; (S, K;) said of a man. (S.)
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تصفّر المَالُ
ذ
The cattle became in good condition, the vehement heat of summer having departed from them: [or,] accord. to Sgh,
تصفّرت
الإِِبِلُ signifies
The camels became fat in the [
season called the]
صَفَرِيَّة. (TA.)
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اصفرّ
ذ
It become
أَصْفَر [i. e.
yellow: and also
black]: (S, M, K:) and so ↓
اصفارّ : (S, K:) or the former signifies
it was so constantly: and the latter,
it was so transiently. (Az, TA. [See 9 in art.
حمر.])
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إِِصْفَاْرَّ
see the next preceding paragraph.
صَفْرٌ
ذ
: see
صِفْرٌ.
صُفْرٌ
ذ
: see
صِفْرٌ. -A2- Also, (S, M, A, Msb, K,) and ↓
صِفْرٌ accord. to AO, (S, M, Msb, *) who allowed no other form, but the former is the better, (M,) [
Brass;] the
metal of which vessels are made; (S;)
i. q.
نُحَاسٌ [which means both
copper and
brass]; (A, Msb;) or
a sort of
نُحَاس; or
نُحَاس
made yellow; (M;) or the
best sort of
نُحَاس; (Msb;) or
an excellent sort thereof: (TA:) n. un. ↓
صُفْرَةٌ . (M.) ― -b2- And
Gold: (M, A, K: [see also
الصَّفْرَآءُ, voce
أَصْفَرُ:]) or
deenars; either because they are yellow (
صُفْرٌ [pl. of
أَصْفَرُ]), or thus called because resembling the
صُفْر of which vessels are made. (M.) ― -b3- And
Women's ornaments. (A.) ― -b4-
إِِنَّهُ لَفِى صُفْرِهِ, (S, O, TA, [thus in an old and very excellent copy of the S, in another copy of which I find, as in Freytag's Lex., ↓
صُفْرَةٍ ,]) and ↓
صِفْرِهِ , (TA,) [app. means
He is in that state in which he requires to be rubbed with saffron; for it] is said of him who is affected by madness, when he is in the days in which his reason fails; because they used to rub him with somewhat of saffron. (S, O, L.)
صِفْرٌ
ذ
(S, M, A, Msb, K) and ↓
صُفْرٌ and ↓
صُفُرٌ and ↓
صَفِرٌ (M, K) and ↓
صَفْرٌ (M) and ↓
أَصْفَرُ (Msb)
Empty, void, or
vacant; (S, M, A, Msb, K;) applied to a house or tent, (S, Msb,) and to a vessel, (M, A,) and to a hand: (A:) each of the first three is used alike as masc. and fem. and sing. [and dual] and pl.: (M:) [and so, app., is the last but one:] and each has also for its pl.
أَصْفَارٌ. (M, K.) One says
بَيْتٌ صِفْرٌ مِنَ المَتَاعِ
A house, or
tent, or
chamber, empty, or
void, of furniture and utensils. (S.) And [applying the pl. form of the epithet to a sing. subst.,]
إِِنَآءٌ أَصْفَارٌ
An empty vessel; (M, K;) like as one says
بُرْمَةٌ أَعْشَارٌ; on the authority of IAar: (M:) and [applying the sing form of the epithet to a pl. subst.,]
آنِيَةٌ صِفْرٌ
empty vessels. (M, K.) And
رَجُلٌ صِفْرُ اليَدَيْنِ
A man empty-handed. (S, Msb.) And
صِفْرٌ مِنَ الخَيْرِ (assumed tropical:)
Void of good. (TA.) And it is said, in a trad., of Umm-Zara, that she was
صِفْرٌ رِدَاؤُهَا meaning (assumed tropical:)
Lank in her belly; as though her
رداء, which is a garment that falls upon the belly and there ends, were empty. (TA.) And
هُوَ صِفْرٌ صِحْرٌ
It is [
utterly]
empty;
صحر being an imitative sequent. (Kh, Ham p. 354.) ― -b2-
صِفْرٌ in arithmetical notation, in the Indian method, is
A circle [or the character
ه, denoting
nought, or
zero; whence our term “ cipher: ” when nought is thus denoted, five is denoted by a character resembling our B: but more commonly, in the present day, nought is denoted by a round dot; and five, by
ه]. (L, TA.) -A2- See also
صُفْرٌ, in two places.
صَفَرٌ
ذ
[an inf. n. of
صَفِرَ, q. v.: ― -b2- and hence,]
Hunger: and ↓
صَفْرَةٌ [the inf. n. un.]
a hungering once. (M, K.) ― -b3- Also
A certain disease in the belly, which renders the face yellow: (M, K:) or
a collecting of water in the belly. (Kt.) [See also
صُفَارٌ.] ― -b4- Also
A kind of serpent, (S, M, K,)
in the belly, (S, K,)
which sticks to the ribs, and bites them, (M, K,) or, as the Arabs assert,
which bites a man when he is hungry, its bite occasioning the stinging which a man feels when he is hungry: (S:) used alike as sing. and pl.; or one is termed
صَفَرَةٌ: (M:) and it is said to be what is meant by the word in a trad., in which it is disacknowledged: (S, TA:) or
a certain reptile (
دَابَّة)
which bites the ribs and their cartilages: (M, K:) or
a certain serpent in the belly, which attacks beasts and men, and which, accord. to the Arabs [
of the time of Ignorance],
passes from one to another more than the mange or scab; (Ru-beh:) the Prophet, however, denied its doing so: it is said also that
it oppresses and hurts a man when he is hungry: (A'Obeyd:) this is the explanation approved by Az: (TA:) or, as also ↓
صُفَارٌ ,
worms in the belly, (M, K, TA,)
and in the cartilages of the ribs, which cause a man to become very yellow, and sometimes kill him. (TA.) You say,
عَضَّ عَلَى شُرْسُوفِهِ الصَّفَرُ, meaning, (tropical:)
He was hungry. (A.) -A2- Accord. to some, (M,) in the trad. above referred to,
صَفَرٌ signifies The
postponing of [
the month]
El-Moharram, transferring it to Safar: (A'Obeyd, M, K:) [see
نَسِىْءٌ:] or it there means the disease called by this name, because they asserted it to be transitive. (K.) -A3- Also The
intellect, or
understanding; or the
heart, or
mind; syn.
رُوعٌ: (M, K: [in the CK
رَوْع:]) the
inmost part (
لُبّ)
of the heart. (M, K.) Hence the saying, (TA,)
لَا يَلْتَاطُ هٰذَا بِصَفَرِى
This will not adhere to me, [or
to my mind,]
nor will my soul accept it: (S, TA:) said of that which one does not love. (A.) -A4- Also
A contract, compact, or
covenant: or
suretiship, or
responsibility: syn.
عَقْدٌ. (M, L, K. [In some copies of the K,
فقد.]) -A5- Also (S, M, Msb, K) and sometimes [
صَفَرُ,] imperfectly decl., (K,) but all make it perfectly decl. except AO, who makes it imperfectly decl. because it is determinate [or a proper name] and similar in meaning to
سَاعَةٌ, which is fem., meaning that all nouns signifying times are
سَاعَات, (Th, M,) and, accord. to some,
الصَّفَرُ, (Msb,) [
The second month of the Arabian calendar;]
the month that is [
the next]
after ElMoharram (
المُحَرَّمُ): (S, M, K:) so called because in it they used to procure their provision of corn from the places [in which it was collected, their granaries having then become empty (
صِفْر); agreeably with the opinion of my learned friend Mons. Fulgence Fresnel, that it was so called from the scarcity of provisions in the season in which it fell when it was first named; for it then fell in winter: see the latter of the two tables in p. 1254; and see also
نَسِىْءٌ]: or because Mekkeh was then empty, its people having gone forth to travel: or, accord. to Ru-beh, because the Arabs in it made predatory expeditions, and left those whom they met empty: (M:) or because they then made predatory expeditions, and left the houses of the people empty: (Msb in art.
جمد:) pl.
أَصْفَارٌ, (S, M, Msb, K,) and, as some say,
صَفَرَاتٌ. (Msb.) ― -b2-
الصَّفَرَانِ
The two months of El-Moharram and Safar; (M;)
two months of the year, whereof one was called by the Muslims El-Moharram. (IDrd, M, Msb, K.)
صَفِرٌ
ذ
: see
صِفْرٌ, first sentence.
صُفُرٌ
ذ
: see
صِفْرٌ, first sentence.
صَفْرَةٌ
ذ
: see
صَفَرٌ, [of which it is the n. un.,] first sentence.
صُفْرَةٌ
ذ
[
Yellowness;]
a certain colour, (S, M, Msb,)
well known, (M, K,)
less intense than red, (Msb,)
found in animals and in some other things, and, accord. to IAar,
in water. (M.) ― -b2- Also
Blackness. (M, K.) ― -b3- See also
صُفْرٌ, in two places. -A2-
صُفْرَةُ, imperfectly decl., is a proper name for
The she-goat. (Sgh, K.)
صَفَرِىٌّ
ذ
(S, M, K) and ↓
صَفَرِيَّةٌ (K) The
increase, or
offspring, (
نِتَاج,)
of sheep or
goats (S, M, K [in the CK,
او is erroneously put for
و before this explanation])
after that called
قَيْظِىٌّ: (S, TA:) or
at the period of the [
auroral]
rising of Suheyl [or
Canopus, which, in Central Arabia, at the commencement of the era of the Flight, was about the 4th of August, O. S.; here erroneously said in the M to be in the beginning of winter]: (M, K:) or ↓ the latter word signifies [as above, and also the
period itself above mentioned: or] the
period from the rising of Suheyl to the setting of
الذِّرَاع [
the Seventh Mansion of the Moon, which, in the part and age above mentioned, was about the 3rd of January, O. S.],
when the cold is intense; and then breeding is approved: (M:) or the
period from the rising of Suheyl to the rising of
السِّمَاك [
the Fourteenth Mansion of the Moon, which, in the part and age above mentioned, was about the 4th of October, O. S.],
commencing with forty nights of varying, or
alternating, heat and cold, called
المُعْتَدِلَاتُ: (AZ:) the first increase [of sheep and goats] is the
صَقَعِىّ, which is when the sun smites (
تَصْقَعُ) the heads of the young ones; and some of the Arabs call it the
شَمْسِىّ, and the
قَيْظِىّ: then is the
صَفَرِىّ, after the
صَقَعِىّ; and that is when the fruit of the palm-tree is cut off: then, the
شَتَوِىّ, which is in the [season called]
رَبِيع: then, the
دَفَئِىّ, which is when the sun becomes warm: then, the
صَيفِىّ: then, the
قَيْظِىّ: then, the
خَرَفِىّ, in the end of the [season called]
قَيْظ: (Aboo-Nasr:) or
صَفَرِيَّةٌ signifies, (M, K,) and so
صَفَرِىٌّ, (K,) the [
period of the]
departure of the heat and the coming of the cold: (AHn, M, K:) or the
period between the departure of the summer and the coming of the winter: (Aboo-Sa'eed:) or the
first of the seasons; [app. meaning the
autumnal season, called
الخَرِيف,
which was the first of the four, and of the six, seasons; or perhaps the
first of the seasons of rain, commonly called
الوَسْمِىّ;] and it may be
a month: (AHn, M, K:) or the latter, (M,) or both, (TA,) the
beginning of the year. (M, TA.) [Hence,]
أَيَّامُ ↓
الصَّفَرِيَّةِ
Twenty days of, or
from, (
مِنْ,)
the latter part of the summer, or
hot season. (TA voce
حُلَّبٌ.) ― -b2- Also the former, (S,) or ↓ both, (TA,) The
rain that comes in the beginning of autumn: (S:) or
from the period of the rising of Suheyl to that of the setting of
الذِّرَاع [expl. above]. (TA.) ― -b3- Also the latter, (S, M,) or ↓ both, (K,)
A plant that grows in the beginning of the autumn: (S, M, K:) so called, accord. to AHn, because the beasts become yellow when they pasture upon that which is green; their arm-pits and similar parts, and their lips and fur, becoming yellow; but [ISd says,] I have not found this to be known. (M.)
صُفْرِيَّةٌ
ذ
A sort of dates of El-Yemen, which are dried in the state in which they are termed
بُسْر, (AHn, M, K,)
being then yellow; and when they become dry, and are rubbed with the hand, they crumble, and
سَوِيق
is sweetened with them, and they surpass sugar; (AHn, M;) [or]
they supply the place of sugar in
سَوِيق. (K.) -A2-
الصُّفْرِيَّةُ, (S, M, K,) and, (K,) or as some say, (S, M,) ↓
الصِّفْرِيَّةُ , (M, K,)
A sect of the
خَوَارِج, (S,)
a party of the
حَرُورِيَّة; (M, K;) so called in relation to Sufrah (
صُفْرَةُ [which is the name of a place in El-Yemámeh]): (M:) or in relation to Ziyád Ibn-El-Asfar, (S, K,) their head, or chief; (S;) or to 'Abd-Allah (S, M, K) Ibn-Es-Saffár, (S,) or Ibn-Saffár, (K,) or Ibn-Safár, (so in a copy of the M,) in which case it is extr. in form; (M;) or on account of the yellowness of their complexions; or because of their being void of religion; (K;) accord. to which last derivation, it is ↓
الصِّفْرِيَّةُ , with kesr; and As holds this to be the right opinion. (TA.) ― -b2- And the former (
الصُّفْرِيَّةُ)
The
مَهَالِبَة, (M, K,) who were celebrated for bounty and generosity; (TA;) so called in relation to Aboo-Sufrah, (M, K,) who was [surnamed] Abu-l-Mohelleb. (M.)
الصِّفْرِيَّةُ
ذ
: see the next preceding paragraph in two places.
صَفَرِيَّةٌ
ذ
: see
صَفَرِىٌّ, in five places.
صِفْرِيتٌ
ذ
is the sing. of
صَفَارِيتُ, (S,) which signifies
Poor men: (S, K:) the
ت is augmentative. (S.)
صَفَارٌ
ذ
, (S, M,) with fet-h, (S,) or ↓
صُفَارٌ , like
غُرَابٌ, (K,)
What is dry, of [
the species of barleygrass called]
بُهْمَى: (S, M, K:) app. because of its yellowness: (M:)
it has prickles that cling to the lips of the horses. (TA in art.
شفه.) ― -b2- And the former, accord. to ISk,
A certain plant. (TA.)
صُفَارٌ
ذ
: see 1, in two places. -A2- Also
A certain disease, in consequence of which one becomes yellow: (A:) the
yellow water that collects in the belly; (M, K;)
i. q.
سِقْىٌ: (M:) or
a collecting of yellow water in the belly, which is cured by cutting the
نَائِط,
a vein in the
صُلْبِ [i. e.
backbone, or
back]. (S.) ― -b2- See also
صَفَرٌ. ― -b3- And see
صَفَارٌ. ― -b4- Also
A yellowness that takes place in wheat
before the grain has become full. (A, TA.) ― -b5- And
Remains of straw and
of other fodder, at the roots of the teeth of beasts; as also ↓
صِفَارٌ . (M, K.) ― -b6- And The
tick, or
ticks: (M, K:) and, (K,) or as some say, (M,)
an insect, or
animalcule, (
دُوَيْبَّةٌ,)
that is found in the solid hoofs, and in the toes, or
soles, of camels, (M, K,)
in the hinder parts thereof. (M.)
صِفَارٌ
ذ
: see the next preceding paragraph.
صَفِيرٌ
ذ
inf. n. of
صَفَرَ [q. v.]. (S, M, K.) -A2- [In the present day it signifies also The
sapphire.]
صُفَارَةٌ
ذ
What has withered, (M, K,)
and become altered to yellow, (M,)
of plants, or
herbage. (M, K.)
صَفِيرَةٌ
ذ
A dam (
ضَفِيرَةٌ)
between two tracts of land. (Sgh, K.)
صُفَارَى
ذ
A species of bird, that whistles (
يَصْفِرُ). (M. [See also what next follows.])
صُفَارِيَّةٌ
ذ
A certain bird; (IAar, S;) as also
صُفَارِيَةٌ, without teshdeed; (S;) the
bird called
تُبَشِّرٌ, (S in art.
بشر,) or
تُبُشِّرٌ: (K in that art.:) [Golius (who writes the word
صَفَارِيَّةٌ) adds, “ ut puto, quæ in Syria
صُفَيْرا dicitur,
flava, duplo major passere, nam et
passer luteus, ut reddit Meid. ”:]
i. q.
صَعْوَةٌ. (IAar.) [See also
الأَصْقَعُ.]
صُفُورِيَّةٌ
ذ
, accord. to the K,
A kind of
نَبَات [i. e.
plant]: but in the Tekmileh,
a kind of
ثِيَاب [i. e.
garments, or
cloths]; pl. of
ثَوْب; and it bears the mark of correctness. (TA.)
صَفَّارٌ
ذ
: see
صَافِرٌ -A2- Also
A fabricator of
صُفْر [or
brass]. (M, K.)
صُفَّارٌ
ذ
, with damm, The
entire quill of a feather. (AA, O.)
صَفَّارَةٌ
ذ
[
A whistle: so in the present day: and also
a fife:]
a hollow thing (M, K)
of copper, (K,)
in which a boy whistles (M, K)
to pigeons, (K,) or
to an ass, that he may drink. (TS, L, K.) ― -b2- [Hence,]
الصَّفَّارَةُ
The anus; syn.
الاِسْتُ; (M, K;) in the dial. of the Sawád. (TA.)
صَافِرٌ
ذ
Whistling; or
a whistler. (TA.) ― -b2- And hence, (TA,)
A thief; (K;) as also ↓
صَفَّارٌ : [or this signifies
a frequent, or
habitual, whistler:] the thief being so called because he whistles in fear of his being suspected: whence, as some explain it, the saying
أَجْبَنُ مِنْ صَافِرٍ [
More cowardly than a thief]: (TA:) a prov.: accord. to AO, it means in this instance
one who whistles to a woman for the purpose of fornication or
adultery; because he fears lest he should be seen: or ― -b3- accord. to A'Obeyd,
Any bird that whistles; for birds of prey do not whistle, but only ignoble birds, that are preyed upon: (Meyd:) [or]
any bird that does not prey: (M, K:) and
any bird having a cry: and
a certain cowardly bird: (K:) [accord. to Dmr, as stated by Freytag, it is
a bird of the passerine kind; also called ↓
صَافِرِيَّةٌ :] accord. to Mohammad Ibn- Habeeb, (Meyd,)
a certain bird that suspends itself from trees, hanging down its head, whistling all the night in fear lest it should sleep and be taken; and so in the prov. above mentioned: (Meyd, A: *) or, accord. to IAar, it means
بِهِ ↓
مَصْفُورٌ [
whistled to]: i. e., when he is whistled to, he flees: and by
بِهِ ↓
المَصْفُورُ is meant the
bird called
التنوّط [i. e.
التَّنَوُّطُ or
التُّنَوِّطُ &c.],
the cowardice of which induces it to weave for itself a nest like a purse, suspended from a tree, narrow in the mouth and wide in the lower part, in which it protects itself, fearing lest a bird of prey should light upon it: (Meyd: [see also art.
نوط:]) or
any coward. (TA.) ― -b4-
مَا بِهَا صَافِرٌ
There is not in it (i. e. the house,
الدَّار, TA)
any one: (S, K:) [lit.]
any one who whistles: (M:) or
any one to be called by whistling;
صَافِرٌ being here an instance of the measure
فَاعِلٌ in the sense of the measure
مَفْعُولٌ followed by
بِهِ. (T, TA.)
صَافِرِيَّةٌ
ذ
: see the next preceding paragraph.
أَصْفَرُ
ذ
[a comparative and superlative epithet form
صَفَرَ]. One says
أَصْفَرُ مِنْ بُلْبُلٍ [
A greater whistler, or
warbler, than the
بلبل]. (S.) -A2- See also
صِفْرٌ. ― -b2- [Also
More, and
most, empty, void, or
vacant.] It is said in a trad.,
أَصْفَرُ البُيُوتِ مِنَ
الخَيْرِ البَيْتُ الصِّفْرُ مِنْ كِتَابِ ا@للّٰهِ [
That one of houses which is the most void of good is the house that is destitute of the Book of God]. (S.) -A3- Also [
Yellow;]
of the colour termed
صُفْرَةٌ: (S, M, K:) fem.
صَفْرَآءُ: (Msb, &c.:) pl.
صُفْرٌ. (TA.) And
Black (A'Obeyd, S, K) is sometimes thus termed: (S:) applied to a camel, as in the Kur lxxvii. 33, because a black camel always has an intermixture of yellow: (TA:) or, applied to a camel,
of a colour whereof the ground is black, with some yellow hairs coming through. (M.) Applied to a horse,
Of the colour termed in Pers.
زَرْدَهْ [
a kind of sorrel], (S,) but not unless
having a yellow [or
sorrel]
tail and mane. (As, S.) ― -b2-
بَنُو الأَصْفَرِ
The Greeks (
الرُّومُ): (S, A:) or
their kings: because the sons of El-Asfar the son of Room the son of 'Eesoo (or 'Eysoon, TA, [i. e. Esau,]) the son of Is-hák [or Isaac] (K) the son of Ibráheem [or Abraham]: (TA:) or El-Asfar was a surname of Room: (TA:) or they were so called because their first ancestor, (A, IAth,) Room the son of 'Eysoon, (IAth,) was of a yellow complexion: (A, IAth:) or because they were conquered by an army of Abyssinians by whom their women had yellow children: (K:) [or] they are
the modern Muscovites. (TA.) ― -b3-
الأَصْفَرَانِ
Gold and saffron; (S, M, K;) which are said to destroy women: (TA:) or
the plant called
وَرْس
and saffron: (S, K:) or
the plant called
وَرْس
and gold: (M:) or
saffron and raisins. (ISk, Sgh, K.) ― -b4- And
الصَّفْرَآءُ
Gold. (M, K. [See also
صُفْرٌ.]) Hence the saying of 'Alee,
يَا
صَفْرَآءُ ا@صْفَرِّى وَيَا بَيْضَآءُ ا@بْيَضِّى وَغُرِّى غَيْرِى
O gold, [
be yellow,]
and O silver, [
be white, and beguile other than me:] and one says also,
مَا لِفُلَانٍ صَفْرَآءُ
وَلَا بَيْضَآءُ [
There is not belonging to such a one gold nor silver]. (TA.) ― -b5- Also
A kind of bile, (M, K,)
well-known; (K;) [
the yellow bile; one of the four humours of the body; of which the others are the black bile (
السَّوْدَآءُ), the blood (
الدَّمُ), and the phlegm (
البَلْغَمُ):] so called because of its colour. (M.) ― -b6- And
The bow that is made of [
the tree called]
نَبْع. (S, * K, * TA.) ― -b7- And
The female locust that is devoid of eggs. (M, K.) ― -b8- And
A certain plant, (S, M, K,)
of the plain or
soft tracts, and of the sands, (M, K,)
and sometimes growing in hard level ground: (M:) or
a certain herb, that spreads upon the ground, (AHn, M,)
the leaves of which are like those of the
خَسّ [or
lettuce], (AHn, M, K,)
and which the camels eat vehemently: (AHn, M:) it is
of the kind called
ذُكُور. (Aboo-Nasr, M.)
مُصْفَرٌ
ذ
: see its fem., with
ة, voce
مَصْفُورٌ.
مُصْفِرٌ
ذ
A
poor man. (S.)
مُصَفَّرٌ
ذ
; and its fem., with
ة: see
مَصْفُورٌ.
هُوَ مَصَفِّرُ ا@سْتِهِ
ذ
is from
الصَّفِيرُ, [see
صَفَرَ,] not from
الصُّفْرَةُ, (S,) and means
He is a
صَرَّاط; (S, K;) as though denoting cowardice: (TA:) or it is from
صَفَّرَ “ he dyed yellow; ” (M;) and was applied to Aboo-Jahl; (M, TA;) meaning that he dyed his
اِسْت with saffron, and was addicted to [the enormity termed]
أُبْنَة: this, accord. to Sgh, is the correct explanation; and he adds that it is said of a luxurious man, whom experience and afflictions have not rendered firm, or sound, in judgment. (TA.) ― -b2-
المُصَفِّرَةُ is an appellation applied to
Those whose sign [meaning
the colour of their ensign]
is
صُفْرَة; (M, K;) [i. e.
whose ensign is yellow;] and is similar to
المُحَمِّرَةُ and
المُبَيِّضَةُ. (M.)
مَصْفُورٌ
ذ
: see
صَافِرٌ, in two places. -A2- Also
Hungry; and so ↓
مُصَفَّرٌ . (K.) ― -b2- Of the
مَصْفُورَة, (TA,) and ↓
مُصْفَرَة , (Mgh, TA,) or ↓
مُصَفَّرَة , (Mgh,) which one is forbidden to offer in sacrifice, (Mgh, TA,) it is said that the first is
Such as has the ear entirely cut off; because its ear-hole is destitute of the ear: and the second,
the lean, or
emaciated; because devoid of fatness; or, accord. to Kt, the first and second have the latter meaning, as though destitute of fat and flesh: (TA:) or the second and third have the latter meaning; or the former meaning: (Mgh:) but accord. to the relation of Sh, what is thus forbidden is termed
المَصْغُورَةُ, with
غ, having the former of the meanings expl. above; which IAth disapproves: (TA in art.
صغر:) or
المُصَغَّرَةُ. (Mgh in that art.) -A3- Also
Having the disease termed
صُفَار: (A, TA:) or one
from whose belly comes forth yellow water. (TA.)
