صِفْرِدٌ ذ A certain bird, (S, M, K,) of a cowardly nature, (K,) larger than the sparrow, (M,) that frequents houses, and is the most cowardly of birds; (Lth;) it is afraid of the [little bird called] صَعْوَة; (IAar;) and is by the vulgar (S) called أَبُو المَلِيحِ. (S, K. [Accord. to Golius, the nightingale: but this I think a mistake.]) أَجْبَنُ مِنْ صِفْرِدٍ [More cowardly than a sifrid] is a prov., (S, Meyd,) asserted by AO to be postclassical. (Meyd. [See Freytag's Arab. Prov. i. 372.])
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