سفح

سَفَحَ • (safaḥa) I (non-past يَسْفَحُ (yasfaḥu), verbal noun سَفْح (safḥ))

1. to pour, to flow
2. to spill, to shed

   Synonym: سَفَكَ (safaka)

   • c. 563, طرفة بن العبد, ديوان طرفة بن العبد شرح الأعلم الشنتمري:

     إِنِّي وَجَدِّكَ مَا هَجَوْتُكَ وَٱلْأَنْصَابُ يُسْفَحُ بَيْنَهُنَّ دَمُ

     ʔinnī wajaddika mā hajawtuka wal-ʔanṣābu yusfaḥu baynahunna damu

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   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 6:145:

     إِلَّا أَنْ يَكُونَ مَيْتَةً أَوْ دَمًا مَسْفُوحًا أَوْ لَحْمَ خِنْزِيرٍ

     ʔillā ʔan yakūna maytatan ʔaw daman masfūḥan ʔaw laḥma ḵinzīrin

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سَفْح • (safḥ) m

1. verbal noun of سَفَحَ (safaḥa) (form I)

سَفْح • (safḥ) m (plural سُفُوح (sufūḥ) or أَسْفَاح (ʔasfāḥ))

1. bottom
2. foot (of a mountain)
   • a. 660 CE, Ali ibn Abi Talib, Nahj Al-Balaghah:

     فَإِذَا نَزَلْتُمْ بِعَدُوٍّ، أَوْ نَزَلَ بِكُمْ، فَلْيَكُنْ مُعَسْكَرُكُمْ فِي قُبُلِ الأَشْرَافِ، وَأَسْفَاحِ الجِبَالِ، وَأَثْنَاءِ الأَنْهَارِ

     faʔiḏā nazaltum biʕaduwwin, ʔaw nazala bikum, falyakun muʕaskarukum fī qubuli l-ʔašrāfi, waʔasfāḥi al-jibāli, waʔaṯnāʔi l-ʔanhāri

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• Lane, Edward William (1863) “سفح”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “سفح”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “سفح”, 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 (in French), Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “سفح”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
• Баранов, Х. К. (2011) “سفح”, in Большой арабско-русский словарь (Bolʹšoj arabsko-russkij slovarʹ), 11th edition, Москва: Живой язык, →ISBN