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شِفَآءٌ ذ , (K, TA,) like كِسَآءٌ, (TA,) [in the CK erroneously written شَفاء,] primarily signifies The becoming free from disease, sickness, or malady; recovering therefrom; or becoming convalescent: ― -b2- and then, Medical, or curative, treatment: (TA:) the giving of health; (KL:) inf. n. of شَفَاهُ [q. v.]: (S, Msb, TA:) ― -b3- and [then], (TA,) A medicine, or remedy: pl. أَشْفِيَةٌ, and pl. pl. أَشَافٍ. (K, TA.) [Hence, دَارُ الشِفَآءِ The hospital.] ― -b4- [And hence,] one says, شِفَآءُ العِىِّ السُّؤَالُ (tropical:) [The remedy of inability is the asking information]. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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