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2 صنّفهُ ذ , (M, K,) inf. n. تَصْنِيفٌ, (S, M, O, K,) He assorted it; i. e. made it into, or disposed it in, sorts, or species; (S, O, K;) and separated, or distinguished, its several parts or portions or constituents, one from another: (S, M, O, K:) التَّصْنِيفُ is the separating, or distinguishing, of things, one from another. (Msb.) ― -b2- And hence, (Z, Msb, * TA,) تَصْنِيفُ الكُتُبِ (Z, TA) or الكِتَابِ: (Msb:) you say, صنّف الكِتَابَ, inf. n. as above, He composed the book. (MA.) -A2- صنّفت العِضَاهُ The [trees called] عضاه became green: (M:) and صنّف الشَّجَرُ the trees put forth their leaves: (O, K: [and the like is said in the Msb:]) AHn says that this signifies the trees began to leaf, so that they were of two sorts, one sort that had leaved and one sort that had not leaved; but this is not a valid saying; and in like manner ↓ تصنّف : (M:) accord. to the A, both signify the trees became of different sorts; and in like manner النَّبَاتُ [the plants, or herbage]: (TA:) and صنّف الثَّمَرُ, inf. n. as above, signifies the fruits became so that some of them were ripe exclusively of others, and some of them coloured exclusively of others: (Msb:) and الأَرْطَى ↓ تصنّف , and النَّبْتُ, the [trees called] ارطى, and the plants, or herbage, broke forth to leaf. (Ibn-'Abbád, O, K.) 'ObeydAlláh Ibn-Keys-er-Rukeiyát says, “ سَقْيًا لِحُلْوَانَ ذِى الكُرُومِ وَمَا
صَنَّفَ مِنْ تِينِهِ وَمِنْ عِنَبِهْ
” [May there be a sending down of rain to Hulwán, the possessor of vines, and of such as have put forth their leaves, of the fig-trees and the grape-vines thereof]: (O, K:) it is said in the K that the verb in this verse is thus, from صنّف الشَّجَرُ, not from صنّفهُ; and that J has erred in the reading that he has given; for the reading given by J, who ascribes this verse to Ibn-Ahmar, is صُنِّفَ; but this is the reading of Fr, [as is said in the O,] and both readings are correct; and of the latter, [accord. to which the meaning is, and of such as have been made to consist of various sorts or species, of the fig-trees and the grape-vines thereof,] MF says, it is that which the case requires, the commendation being for the abundance and variety of the fruits of the trees, rather than for the trees putting forth their leaves. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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