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1 صَافَ ذ , (S, M, O, Msb, K,) aor. يَصِيفُ, inf. n. صَيْفٌ, (TA,) He, or it, (a company of men, M, Msb,) remained, stayed, dwelt, or abode, (S, M, O, Msb, K,) during the [season called] صَيْف, (S, O,) or during his, or their, صَيْف, (O, Msb,) or during a صَيْف, (K,) بِهِ in it, (S, M, O, K,) i. e. in a place; (S, M, O;) as also ↓ اصطاف , (S, O, * K, * TA,) and ↓ تصيّف ; (S, * O, * K, * TA;) and بِالمَكَانِ ↓ اِصَّيَّفَ is like ↓ صَيَّفَ [probably a mistranscription for تَصَيَّفَ, of which اِصَّيَّفَ is a var., and of which, together with one of this var., an ex. will be found in what follows]: (TA:) you say, صِفْتُ بِمَكَانِ كَذَا [I remained during the صَيْف in such a place], and in like manner صِفْتُهُ, and ↓ تَصَيَّفْتُهُ , and ↓ صَيَّفْتُهُ [probably a mistranscription for ↓ اِصَّيَّفْتُهُ , as seems to be indicated by what here follows]: (M:) a Hudhalee says, “ تَصَيَّفْتُ نُعْمَانَ وَا@صَّيَّفَتْ
” [I remained during the صَيْف in Noamán, and she remained during the صَيْف]. (M, TA.) ― -b2- And صِيفَتِ الأَرْضُ, (S, M, O, K,) a verb of the class of عُنِىَ, (K,) originally صُيِفَت, (TA,) The land was rained upon by the rain of the [season called] صَيْف. (S, M, O. *) And صِفْنَا, of the measure فُعِلْنَا, like خُرِفْنَا and رُبِعْنَا, We were rained upon by the rain of the صَيْف: (S:) and in like manner ↓ صُيِّفْنَا . (M, TA. *) -A2- صاف السَّهْمُ عَنِ الهَدَفِ, (S, M, O, Msb, * K, *) aor. يَصِيفُ, (S, O, K,) inf. n. صَيْفٌ (S, M, O, Msb, K) and صَنيْفُوفَةٌ (S, M, O) and مَصِيفٌ, (M,) The arrow turned aside from the butt: (S, M, O, Msb, K:) a dial. var. of صاف having for its aor. يَصُوفُ and inf. n. صَوْفٌ. (O, Msb, * K.) ― -b2- And صاف الفَحْلُ عَنْ طَرُوقَتِهِ The stallion-camel turned away from covering the female that he had covered. (M.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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