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شَفٌّ ذ A thin, fine, or delicate, garment or piece of cloth; (AZ, S, Mgh, O, * Msb, K; *) as also ↓ شِفٌّ (AZ, S, O, Msb, K) and ↓ شَفِيفٌ : (Msb:) you say ثَوْبٌ شَفٌّ (S, Mgh, Msb) and ↓ شِفٌّ (S, Msb) and ↓ شَفِيفٌ . (Msb:) [see also شَفَّافٌ:] and the garment, or piece of cloth, itself, is termed شَفٌّ and ↓ شِفٌّ : (Har p. 70:) [i. e. each of these words is also used as a subst.; and this is perhaps meant in the O and K: or] شَفٌّ signifies also a certain thin, fine, or delicate, veil or covering: or, accord. to Aboo-Nasr, a certain thin, fine, or delicate, veil or covering, of wool, through which one sees what is behind it: (S:) pl. شُفُوفٌ. (O, Msb, K.) Among the verses of “ the Book ” [of Sb, cited as exs. therein], is the following: “ لَلْبْسُ عَبَآءَةٍ وَتَقَرُّ عَيْنِى
أَحَبُّ إِِلَىَّ مِنْ لُبْسِ الشُّفُوفِ
” [Verily the wearing of a woollen cloak, my eye being therewithal unheated by tears, is more pleasing to me than the wearing of thin, fine, or delicate, garments]. (O.) -A2- See also شِفٌّ. -A3- شفّ [app. شَفٌّ] also signifies Pimples, or small pustules, that come forth and then go away. (Ibn-Buzurj, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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