[1]
شَفَعَهُ , (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) aor.
شَفَعَ , (Msb, K,)
inf. n. شَفْعٌ, (S, Msb,) He made it to be a شَفْع;
(S, K, TA;) meaning (TA) he made it (a single
thing) to be a زَوْج [i. e. he made it to be one of a
pair or couple; and sometimes, he made it to be a
pair or couple together]: (Mgh, TA:) or he
adjoined it to, or coupled it with, that which
was a single thing: (Msb:) accord. to Er-Rághib,
الشَّفْعُ signifies the adjoining a thing to its like.
(TA.) You say, كَانَ وِتْرًا فَشَفَعْتُهُ, (S,) or كَانَ
وِتْرًا فَشَفَعْتُهُ بِآخَرَ i. e. [It was a single thing, and]
I made it to be one of a pair, or couple, with
another. (Mgh. [In Har p. 194, I find the
phrase كان وترا فشفّعه ↓ بآخر, expl. in like
manner; but شفّعه thus used I do not find in any
lexicon: it may, however, be correctly thus used;
for تشفّع, which has the form, app. has also
the signification, of its quasi-pass.]) [And شُفِعَ
المِلْكُ بِمِلْكٍ آخَرَ The possession (here meaning
house, or piece of land,) was coupled by purchase
with another possession: and شُفِعَ بِهِ مِلْكٌ It
had a possession coupled with it by purchase: see
شُفْعَةٌ.] You say also, شَفَعْتُ الرَّكْعَةَ I made the
ركعة to be two. (Msb.) And a poet says,
مَا كَانَ أَبْصَرَنِى بِغِرَّاتِ الصِّبَى
فَٱلْيَوْمَ قَدْ شُفِعَتْ لِىَ ٱلْأَشْبَاحُ
[How clear was my sight with the inadvertencies
of youth! but to-day, objects have become doubled
to me]: i. e., I see the object [as] two objects, by
reason of the weakness and dispersedness of my
sight. (O, K. *) ―
2-b2- [Hence,] one says of a she-camel, (S, O,) and of a ewe, or she-goat, (O,)
شَفَعَتْ, (S, O,) inf. n. شَفْعٌ, (S,) meaning She
became such as is termed شَافِعٌ [q. v.]: (S, O:)
she is thus termed لِأَنَّ وَلَدَهَا شَفَعَهَا أَوْ شَفَعَتْهُ
[because her young one has made her to be one of
a pair, or couple, with itself, or because she has
made it to be one of a pair or couple, with
another that is in her belly], (S, O, K,) inf. n.
شَفْعٌ, or the inf. n. in this case is شِفْعٌ, with kesr.
(O, K.) ―
2-b3- One says also, إِنَّهُ لَيَشْفَعُ عَلَىَّ بِالعَدَاوَةِ,
(K,) or لِى, (O,) i. e. (tropical:) Verily he aids [another,
becoming to him one of a pair, by enmity] against
me, and acts injuriously to me [conjointly with
another]. (O, K, TA.) Accord. to Er-Rághib,
يَشْفَعُ means He joins himself to another, and
aids him, becoming to him one of a pair, or a
شَفِيع [i. e. an intercessor], in doing good or evil,
so that he aids him, or partakes with him, in
[procuring] the benefit or the harm thereof; and
thus it means in the saying in the Kur [iv. 87],
مَنْ يَشْفَعْ شَفَاعَةً حَسَنَةً [and in what follows the
same]: (TA:) or these words mean Whoso adds
a [good] deed to a [good] deed: (O, K:) or, as
some say, the شفاعة here is a man's instituting,
or prescribing, to another, a way of good or evil,
so that he [the latter] imitates him, and thus
becomes as though he were to him one of a pair.
(TA.) [But accord. to the expositors in general,
and accord. to the general usage of the inf. n.
شَفَاعَةٌ as distinguished from شَفْعٌ, what is here
meant is Intercession.] ―
2-b4- [Hence also,] شَفَعَ لَهُ
إِلَى فُلَانٍ, (S, * K, * TA,) or الى الأَمِيرِ, (MA,)
aor.
شَفَعَ , (K, TA,) inf. n. شَفَاعَةٌ; (MA, K, TA;)
and تشفّع ↓ لَهُ, (MA,) or تشفّع ↓ فِيهِ; (S, TA;)
He made petition, or intercession, for him [to
such a one, or to the prince or the like; thus
adjoining himself to him as an aider]: (MA,
TA:) and شَفَعَ بَيْنَ النَّاسِ [He interceded between
the people], inf. n. شَفَاعَةٌ: (Jel in iv. 87:) and
شَفَعْتُ فِى الأَمْرِ, (Msb,) inf. n. شَفَاعَةٌ (IKtt, Msb,
TA) and شَفْعٌ, (Msb, [but the latter is scarcely to
be found elsewhere thus used,]) I pleaded, [or
interceded,] in the affair, or case, [in favour of
another,] for some means of access or ingratiation,
or some right or due: (IKtt, * Msb, TA: *) شَفَاعَةٌ
is mentioned, but not explained, in the K: (TA:)
as distinguished from شَفْعٌ meaning as expl.
above, it signifies the joining oneself to another
as an aider to him or a petitioner respecting him
[or for him]; and in most instances the former
person is one of higher station than the latter:
(Er-Rághib, TA:) or the speaking of the شَفِيع
[or intercessor] to the king [or some other person]
respecting some object of want which the speaker
asks for another person: it is also expl. as signifying the passing over without punishment, or the
forgiving, [or rather the asking, or requesting,
the passing over &c., (for the word طَلَبُ, probably accidentally omitted by the transcriber at
the commencement of the explanation, should
doubtless be supplied,)] of sins, crimes, or misdeeds. (TA.) Hence, in a trad., ↓ اِشْفَعْ تُشَفَّعْ
[Intercede thou: thou shalt have thine intercession accepted]. (TA.) The saying in the Kur [ii.
117], وَلَا تَنْفَعُهَا شَفَاعَةٌ [Nor shall intercession
profit it] means that it shall have no شَافِع [or
intercessor] for his شَفَاعَة [or intercession] to
profit it; being a denial of the شَافِع; (Ibn-
'Arafeh, O, K;) and the same is the case in the
Kur lxxiv. 49, (Ibn-'Arafeh, O, TA,) and xx.
108. (TA.) شَفَعَ, inf. n. شَفْعٌ and شَفَاعَةٌ, also
signifies He prayed, or supplicated: and thus
Mbr and Th explain the words of the Kur [ii.
256], مَنْ ذَا ٱلَّذِى يَشْفَعُ عِنْدَهُ إِلَّا بِإِذْنِهِ [Who is he
that shall pray, or supplicate, in his presence,
except by his permission?]. (TA.) ―
2-b5- Accord. to
El-Kutabee, (Mgh,) [i. e.] El-Kuteybee, (TA,) one
says also, of a neighbour of one who desires to
sell a dwelling [or land] شَفَعَ إِلَيْهِ فِى مَا بَاعَ, meaning He made a demand to him, i. e. to the latter,
respecting that which he sold [for the right of
pre-emption]: and of the latter person, ↓ فَشَفَّعَهُ
[and he admitted his right of pre-emption, i. e.]
and he pronounced him to have a better right, or
title, or claim, [as a purchaser,] to that which
was sold, that he whose connexion was more
remote. (Mgh, TA. *) ＝
1-A2- شَفَعَ, inf. n. شَفْعٌ, signifies also He, or it, was, or became, tall, or high.
(TA.) ＝
1-A3- And شُفِعَ, like عُنِىَ, He (a man) was
smitten by the [evil] eye. (IKtt, TA. [But see
شُفْعَةٌ, last sentence.])