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صَنِفَةٌ ذ (S, M, O, K) and ↓ صِنْفَةٌ and ↓ صِنْفٌ , (Sh, O, K,) the first of which is the most chaste, (O, TA,) of a waist-wrapper (إِِزَار), (S, M,) or of a garment, (O, K,) The طُرَّة thereof, i. e. (S, O) the side thereof that has no fringe of unwoven threads: (S, O, K:) or (M, K) its طُرَّة [or border] (M) upon which is the fringe consisting of unwoven threads: (M, K:) or any border, or side, thereof: (S, M, O, K:) accord. to IDrd, it is, with the lexicologists, the side (حَاشِيَة) of a garment; and with others, the part in which is the fringe of unwoven threads: (O:) and the corner of a garment: the pl. of صَنِفَةٌ is صَنِفَاتٌ and [coll. gen. n.] ↓ صَنِفٌ . (M.) ― -b2- صَنِفَاتٌ, as used by a poet describing the سَرَاب [or mirage], means, accord. to Th, (tropical:) The sides, or borders, of the سراب; the سراب being likened by him to a [garment such as is called] مُلَآءَة. (M.) ― -b3- And صَنِفَةٌ signifies also (assumed tropical:) A portion of a قَبِيلَة [or tribe]. (Sh, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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