Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

سَحَفَهُ, (Ṣ, Ḳ, TA,) aor. ـَ {يَسْحَفُ}, (Ḳ, TA,) inf. n. سَحْفٌ, (Ṣ, TA,) He pared it, or peeled it, off; (Ṣ, Ḳ, TA;) namely, a thing; (TA;) and [particularly] the fat from the back (Ṣ, Ḳ) of the sheep or goat, (Ṣ, TA,) not of the she-camel, as is indicated by the context in the Ḳ, (TA,) by reason of its abundance, after which he roasted it, (Ṣ, TA,) i. e., accord. to the Ṣ, the fat, but correctly the sheep or goat: (TA:) so says ISK. (Ṣ, TA.)

And سَحَفَهُ, (Lth, TA,) inf. n. as above, (Lth, Ḳ, TA,) He removed it, or stripped it off, namely, hair from skin, so that none of it remained. (Lth, Ḳ, TA.)

Hence, (TA,) سَحَفَتِ الإِبِلُ ‡ The camels ate what they would. (Ḳ, TA.)

And سَحَفَتِ الرِّيحُ السَّحَابَ † The wind removed the clouds; (Lth, Ḳ;)as alsoأَسْحَفَتْهُ↓, (Zj, Ḳ, TA: in the CK اسْتَحَفَّتُهُ.)

سَحَفَ رَأْسَهُ, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) inf. n. as above, (TA,) He shaved his head (Ṣ, Ḳ, TA) so as to remove the hair utterly. (TA.)

سَحَفَ الشَّىْءَ, and النَّخْلَةَ وَغَيْرَهَا, (Ḳ,) aor. and inf. n. as above, (TA,) He burned the thing, and the palm-tree, &c.; (Ḳ, TA;) in the case of the palm-tree, by kindling fire at the stumps of the branches, being unable to strip them off. (Aboo-Naṣr, TA.)

And سَحَفَهُ He (i. e. God) caused him to be affected with سُحَاف, i. e. consumption, or ulceration of the lungs. (TA.)

اسحف He sold the fat termed سَحْفَة. (Ḳ.)

See also 1.

سَحْفٌ Fat, as a subst.: pl. سِحَافٌ. (TA.) An Arab of the desert said, أَتَوْنَا بِصِحَافٍ فِيهَا لِحَامٌ وَسِحَافٌ They brought us bowls in which were sorts of flesh-meat and of fat. (IAạr Ḳ,* TA.)

سَحْفَةٌ A piece, or portion, of fat; in a general sense: (TA:) or the portion of fat that is upon the back, (Ṣ, Ḳ, TA,) sticking to the skin, in the part between the two shoulder-blades, extending to the haunches: so says ISk: (Ṣ, TA:) or that is upon the two sides and the back: and it is never but from fatness: accord. to IKh, it is in all beasts except the camel: ISd says that, accord. to some, it is in the camel [also]. (TA.)

And [the dual] سَحْفَتَانِ The two sides of the tuft of hair that is between the lower lip and the chin: (Aboo-Saʼeed, Ḳ:) pl. سَحَفَاتٌ. (TA.)

See also سَحِيفٌ.

[Freytag makes it to be also syn. with مَسْحَفٌ, as on the authority of the Ḳ, in which I do not find it in this sense.]

سُحَفْنِيَةٌ (in which the ن is augmentative, TA) A man having the head shaven; (IB, Ḳ, TA;) as alsoسُحَفَةٌ↓. (IB, TA.)

And with the article ال, What one has shaven off: thus it is sometimes a subst.; and sometimes, [i. e. in the former sense,] an epithet. (IB, TA.)

Also A certain beast, or creeping thing: (Seer, TA:) [SM says,] I think it is the سُلَحْفِيَة [or tortoise]. (TA.)

سُحَافٌ Consumption; or ulceration of the lungs; syn. سِلٌّ. (Ṣ, Ḳ.)

سَحُوفٌ A bucket (دَلْو) that takes, and bears away, the water that is in a well. (Seer, Ḳ.)

Also, applied to a she-camel, Of which the fat has gone away. (ISd, TA.)

And, applied to a sheep or goat, or to a ewe or she-goat, (شَاة,) Having a portion of fat such as is termed سَحْفَة, or two such portions of fat; as alsoأُسْحُوفٌ↓: (TA:) or, so applied, (Ṣ,) and applied to a she-camel, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) and to a he-camel, (Ḳ,) having abundance of سَحَائِف, (Ṣ,* Ḳ, TA,) pl. of سَحِيفَةٌ [q. v.]; or having abundance of the fat termed سَحْفَة. (TA.)

Also A she-camel long in the teats. (IDrd, Ḳ.)

And A she-camel narrow in the orifices of the teats. (IDrd, Ḳ.)

And A she-camel that drags her feet, or the extremities of her feet, upon the ground, in going along; (Ḳ, TA;) so say some; i. e., by reason of fatigue: a dial. var. of زَحُوفٌ. (TA.)

And A sheep, or ewe, thin in the wool of the belly. (Ḳ.)

In the Ḳ, three other meanings are erroneously assigned to this word; one of them belonging to سَحِيفَةٌ, and each of the others to سَحِيفٌ. (TA.)

سَحِيفٌ, (ISk, Ṣ, Ṣgh, TA,) accord. to the context in the Ḳ سَحُوفٌ, which is wrong, in this and the next sense, (TA,) The sound of the mill when one grinds. (ISk, Ṣ, Ṣgh, Ḳ *) And The sound of the streaming of milk from the udder; (O, Ḳ,* TA;) as alsoسَحْفَةٌ↓. (Ḳ,* TA.)

سَحِيفَةٌ The fat called سَحْفَةٌ that one has pared off from the back of a sheep or goat. (ISk, Ṣ.)

And sing. of سَحَائِفُ, (Lth, TA,) which signifirs The layers of fat between the layers [of flesh] of the flanks: and similar wide portions of fat that are seen adhering to the skin. (Lth, Ḳ, TA.)

Also A rain (مَطْرَةٌ) that sweeps away that along which it passes: (Ṣ, O, L, TA:) in the Ḳ, by the omission of كَسَفِينَةٍ, this meaning is erroneously assigned to سَحُوفٌ: accord. to Aṣ, a sharp rain, that sweeps away everything: and سَحِيقَةٌ, with ق, a vehement rain, consisting of large drops, but of little width: pls. سَحَائِفُ and سَحَائِقُ. (TA.)

أُسْحُوفٌ: see سَحُوفٌ.

أُسْحُوفُ الأَحَالِيلِ, (Ḳ,) mentioned by ISh, on the authority of Aboo-Aslam, (TA,) and إِسْحَوْفُ الاحاليل, (Ḳ,) thus accord. to Sb, (TA,) A she-camel wide in the orifices of the teats: (Aboo-Aslam, Ḳ:) or having much milk, the streaming of which causes a sound to be heard. (Aboo-Málik, Ḳ,* TA.)

مَسْحَفٌ The mark, or track, of a serpent, upon the ground; (Ibn-ʼAbbád, Ḳ;) as also مَزْحَفٌ. (TA.)

أَرْضٌ مُسْحَفَةٌ, with fet-ḥ [to the ح, or perhaps to the م and ح], A land of which the herbage is thin [or scanty]: mentioned in the Ḳ in art. سخف, as being [written مُسْخِفَةٌ,] like مَحْسِنَةٌ. (TA.)

مِسْحَفَةٌ A thing with which flesh, or flesh-meat, is pared. (Ibn-ʼAbbád, Ḳ.)

مَسْحُوفٌ A man affected with سُحَاف, i. e. consumption, or ulceration of the lungs; (Ṣ;) syn. مَسْلُولٌ. (Ḳ.)