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1 شَفِقَ ذ and شَفَقَ : see 4, in five places. ― -b2- شَفِقَ عَلَيْهِ signifies He was niggardly of it: (TA:) [thus] the saying [of a poet] “ كَمَا شَفِقَتْ عَلَى الزَّادِ العِيَالُ
” means [Like as the household] are niggardly of the provision: (IDrd, M, O:) because he who is niggardly of a thing is عَلَيْهِ ↓ مُشْفِقٌ [i. e. fearful, or cautious, on account of it]. (M.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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