[1]
سَرِفَ , aor.
سَرَفَ , inf. n.
سَرَفٌ,
He was ignorant:
or
he was unmindful, negligent, or
heedless.
(Msb.) [In these senses it is trans.: you say,]
سَرِفَهُ, (S, M, K,) aor.
سَرَفَ , (K,) inf. n.
سَرَفٌ, (S, *
M, K, *)
He was unmindful, negligent, or
heedless, of it; (S, M, K;) namely, a thing: (S, M:)
and
he was ignorant of it: (S, K:) and
he missed
it; (S, * M, K; * [in the first and third of which,
only the inf. n. of the verb in this sense in mentioned, and expl. as syn. with
خَطَأٌ;]) syn.
أَخْطَأَهُ.
(M.) And
طَلَبْتُهُمْ فَسَرِفْتُهُمْ I sought them and
missed them: or
was ignorant of them. (Msb.)
And
سَرِفَ القَوْمَ He passed by the people, or
party, and left them behind him. (M.) As
relates, of an Arab of the desert, with whom
some companions of his made an appointment to
meet him in a certain place of the mosque, and to
whom he broke his promise, that, being asked
respecting that, he said,
مَرَرْتُ بِكُمْ فَسَرِفْتُكُمْ, meaning [
I passed by you and]
I was unmindful of
you. (S.) And hence the saying of Jereer, (S,
TA,) praising the Benoo-Umeiyeh, (TA,)
أَعْطَوْا هُنَيْدَةَ يَحْدُوهَا ثَمَانِيَةٌ
مَا فِى عَطَائِهِمُ مِنٌّ وَلَا سَرَفُ
meaning [
They gave a hundred camels, eight
persons
driving them, or
urging them by singing
to them: there was not in their gift reproach for
a benefit conferred, nor]
unmindfulness: or the
meaning is,
nor missing (
خَطَأٌ); that is, they did
not miss the proper place of the gift by their
giving it to such as did not deserve it and refusing it to the deserving. (S, TA.) You say
also,
سَرِفْتُ يَمِينَهُ I was unacquainted with, or
knew not, his oath. (TA.) ―
2-b2- [
سَرَفٌ is also, as
expl. below,
syn. with إِسْرَافٌ, but as a subst.,
having no verb properly belonging to it.] ＝
1-A2-
سَرَفَتِ الشَّجَرَةَ, (ISk, S, K,) aor.
سَرُفَ , inf. n.
سَرْفٌ,
(ISk, S,) said of the
سُرْفَة [q. v.],
It ate the
leaves of the tree: (ISk, S, K:) and
سَرَفَتِ الخَشَبَ
is likewise said of the
سُرْفَة [as meaning
it ate the
wood]. (Z, TA.) And
سُرِفَتِ الشَّجَرَةُ, (ISk, S, M,
TA,) inf. n.
سَرْفٌ, (ISk,)
The tree had its leaves
eaten by the سُرْفَة: (S:) or
was smitten, or
lighted
on, by the سُرْفَة: (ISk, M, TA:) and
سَرِفَ الخَشَبُ
[
the wood was eaten by the سُرْفَة], the verb in
this phrase being quasi-pass. of the verb in the
phrase
سَرَفَتِ السُّرْفَةُ الخَشَبّ, like as
حَطِمَ and
صَعِقَ are quasi-passives of the verbs in the phrases
حَطَمَتْهُ السِّنُّ and
صَعَقَتْهُ السَّمَآءُ: (Z, TA:) and
[hence] one says also,
سَرِفَ الطَّعَامُ (tropical:)
The wheat, or
food, was, or
became, cankered, or
eaten away;
as though smitten, or lighted on, by the
سُرْفَة.
(M, TA.) ―
2-b2- [Hence also,]
سُرِفَتْ أُذُنُ الشَّاةِ (tropical:)
The
ear of the sheep, or
goat, was entirely cut off.
(A, TA.) ―
2-b3- And
سَرَفَتْ وَلَدَهَا (tropical:)
She (a mother)
injured her child by too
much milk. (A, K, * TA.)