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شَئِفٌ ذ [part. n. of شَئِفَ, and properly meaning Having an ulcer, or imposthume, such as is termed شَأْفَة,] is applied as an epithet to a heart, in the following verse, cited by IKtt, “ يَا أَيُّهَا الجَاهِلُ أَلَّا تَنْصَرِفْ
وَلَمْ تُدَاوِ قُرْصَةَ القَلْبِ الشَّئِفْ
” [in which قُرْصَةَ is doubtless a mistranscription (like that in the next preceding paragraph) for قَرْحَةَ; the obvious meaning of the verse being, (assumed tropical:) O thou ignorant one, wherefore wilt not thou revert, when thou hast not cured the sore of an ulcerated heart?]. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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