[1]
صَفَّ , (S, M, Mgh, O, Msb, K,) aor.
صَفُ3َ ,
(Msb, TA,) inf. n. صَفٌّ, (O, Msb, K, TA,) He
set, or placed, or stationed, (S, M, Mgh, O, K,)
a company of men, (S, M, Mgh, O, Msb, K,) in
war (S, O, K) &c., (O, K,) and a military force,
(TA,) and also [in a similar sense] a thing, (Msb,)
in a rank, or row, or line: (S, M, Mgh, O, K:)
and likewise ↓ صفّف, (TA,) inf. n. تَصْفِيفٌ; (IDrd,
O, K, TA;) but this has an intensive signification.
(IDrd, O, TA.) ―
2-b2- One says also of a she-camel,
تَصُفُّ يَدَيْهَا عِنْدَ الحَلَبِ [She sets her fore legs
evenly, side by side, not putting one of them in
advance of the other, as if about to go onward,
on the occasion of being milked]. (S, M, O, K.)
[See also صَفَنَ, said of a man: and see صَانَ in
art. صون.]) And [in like manner] one says,
صَفَّتِ الإِبِلُ قَوَائِمَهَا [The camels set their legs in
an even row]. (S, O.) ―
2-b3- And of a she-camel
one says also, تَصُفُّ أَقْدَاحًا مِنْ لَبَنِهَا إِذَا حُلِبَتْ [as
though meaning She yields a row of bowls of
her milk when she is milked], because of the abundance of her milk. (S, O, K *.) And تَصُفُّ بَيْنَ
مِحْلَبَيْنِ أَوْ ثَلَاثَةٍ, (S, O,) or simply تَصُفُّ, (M,)
She combines two milking-vessels, or three, at one
milking; (S, * M, O; *) الصَّفُّ meaning her being
milked into two milking-vessels, or three, (S, O,
K,) so as to combine them. (S, O. [In the CK,
أَنْ تَحْلُبَ is a mistake for أَنْ تُحْلَبَ.]) And a
rájiz, cited by AZ, says, referring to a she-camel,
تَصُفُّ فِى ثَلَاثَةِ المَحَالِبِ
[She is milked into three milking-vessels at one
milking]. (S, O.) One says also صَفَّهَا, i. e. حَلَبَهَا صَفًّا
[app. meaning He milked her into two bowls, or
three, at one milking; or into two bowls; the
pronoun referring to a she-camel]. (M. [One or
the other of these two meanings appears to be
indicated by what there precedes this.]) ―
2-b4- صُفَّ
عَلَى الجَمْرِ لِيَنْشَوِىَ (S, K) is said of flesh-meat
(S) [app. meaning It was laid, cut into a strip,
or into strips, upon the live coals to broil]; and
فِى الشَّمْسِ لِيَجِفَّ [in like manner, in the sun to
dry]: (K:) for one says of him who has prepared
flesh-meat cut into strips, or oblong pieces, and
dried in the sun, صَفَّ اللَّحْمَ; and [in like manner]
one says also, صَفَّهُ عَلَى النَّارِ لِيَنْشَوِىَ: (Msb:) or
صَفَّ اللَّحْمَ, aor.
صَفُ3َ , inf. n. صَفُّ, means he cut
the flesh-meat into broad slices: (M:) and accord.
to ISh, ↓ التَّصْفِيفُ is like التَّشْرِيحُ, i. e. the cutting
a piece of flesh-meat thin, so that it is translucent: (TA in the present art:) or التصفيف is a
kind of تَشْرِيح; i. e. the cutting a piece of flesh-meat thin, so that it is translucent by reason of
its thinness, and then throwing it upon the live
coals. (TA in art. شرح.) [See صَفِيفٌ.] ＝
1-A2- See
also 8, in three places. ―
2-b2- صَفَّ said of a bird,
(M, O, Msb, K,) aor.
صَفُ3َ , (M, Msb,) inf. n. صَفٌّ,
(Msb, K,) It extended its wings in a line, (M,)
or it expanded its wings, (O, Msb, K,) in the sky,
and did not move them, (M,) or and struck [an
evident mistake for and did not strike] with them
its sides like the pigeon: (Msb:) such as do so
are not to be eaten; (Msb, K;) as the vulture
and the hawk: (Msb:) it is said in a trad.,
يُؤْكَلُ مَا دَفَّ وَلَا يُؤْكَلُ مَا صَفَّ. (O, K, TA. See
art. دف.) ＝
1-A3- صَفَفْتُ لِلسَّرْجِ, (S,) or صَفَفْتُ لِلسَّرْجِ
صُفَّةً, (O,) or صَفَفْتُ السَّرْجَ, (K, and so in one
place in the O,) and ↓ أَصْفَفْتُهُ, (O, K,) but this
latter verb is of weak authority, (O,) (tropical:) I put to
the horse's saddle a صُفَّة [q. v.]: S, O, K, TA:)
[and] صَفَّ الدَّابَّةَ, and صَفَّ لَهَا, He made for the
beast a صُفَّة. (M.)