See also: ساف

Arabic edit

Etymology edit

See سَعَف (saʕaf, palm branches having leaves), as سَأَف (saʔaf) is glossed the opposite, “palm branches stripped of leaves”.

Verb edit

سَأَفَ (saʔafa) I, non-past يَسْأَفُ‎ (yasʔafu) (obsolete)

  1. to be rent, to be pared, to be chapped, to be affected by fissures, to have fibres or rind or keratin divided

Conjugation edit

Alternative forms edit

Noun edit

سَأَف (saʔafm (collective, singulative سَأَفَة f (saʔafa)) (obsolete)

  1. palm branches stripped of leaves
  2. bristles, hair at the end of the tail of a wolf

Declension edit

References edit

  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “سأف”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 272
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “سأف”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc[2] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 1036
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “سأف”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary[3], London: W.H. Allen, page 474