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صُفْنٌ ذ A thing like the سُفْرَة [described in the next preceding paragraph], and between the عَيْبَة and the قِرْبَة, in which are [put] goods or utensils or the like: or it is of skin, or leather, (M,) [i. e.] a receptacle of skin, or leather, (S, in which it is expressly said to be with damm,) like the سُفْرَة, (S, M,) pertaining to the people of the desert, in which they put their travelling-provisions, and (M) with which (S, M) sometimes (M) water is drawn, (S, M,) like [as is done with] the دَلْو: (M:) occurring in a verse of Sakhr El-Hudhalee [cited in art. خض]: (S:) or a thing like the [small bucket, or small drinking-vessel, of skin or leather, called] رَكْوَة, (Fr, Mgh, K,) in which the ablution termed وُضُوْء is performed: (Fr, K:) or it signifies, (Mgh,) or signifies also, (K,) accord. to AA, (S,) a [pouch such as is called] خَرِيطَة, pertaining to the pastor, in which are [put] his food, and his زِنَاد [for producing fire], (S, Mgh, K,) and his other utensils or apparatus, (K,) or what other things he requires; (S, Mgh;) and sometimes water is drawn with it, like [as is done with] the دَلْو; (TA;) as also ↓ صَفْنَةٌ : (K:) or, accord. to A'Obeyd, ↓ صَفْنَةٌ signifies a thing like the عَيْبَة, in which are [put] a man's goods or utensils, and his [other] apparatus; and when the ة is elided, it is pronounced with damm [i. e. صُفْنٌ]: (TA:) or ↓ صَفْنَةٌ , (TA,) or ↓ صُقْنَةٌ , (so in a copy of the M,) signifies a small دَلْو [or leathern bucket], having a single حَلْقَة [or ring]; and when it is large, it is called صُفْنٌ: and the pl. is أَصْفُنٌ. (M, TA.) ― -b2- And (assumed tropical:) Water [app. considered as contained in the vessel thus called]: so expl. as used in the saying of Aboo-Du-ád, “ هَرَقْتُ فِى حَوْضِهِ صُفْنًا لِيَشْرَبَهُ
” [I poured into his drinking-trough water that he might drink it]. (TA.) ― -b3- See also what next follows.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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