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صَيَّفَنِى It (a thing, S, O, K) sufficed me for my [season termed] صَيْفَة , (S, O, K,) or for my صَيْف : (Msb:) by the “ thing ” here spoken of is meant food, or a garment, or some other thing. (TA.) ― -b2- See also 1, in three places.

عَامَلَهُ مُصَايَفَةً (S, M, O, Msb, K) and صِيَافًا (Lh, M) is from الصَّيْفُ , (M, O, Msb,) like مُشَاهَرَةً (S, O, Msb, K) from الشَّهْرُ , (O, Msb,) and مُعَاوَمَةً (S, O) from العَامُ , (O,) i. e. [He made an engagement, or a contract, with him for work or the like] for the days of the صَيْف . (S.) And in like manner, اِسْتَأْجَرَهُ مُصَايَفَةً and صِيَافًا [He hired him, or took him as a hired man or hireling, for the period of the صَيْف ]. (M.)

اصافوا They entered the [season called] صَيْف : (S, M, O, Msb, K:) like أَشْتَوْا meaning “ They entered the [season called] شِتَا=ء . ” (TA.) ― -b2- And اصافت She (a camel) brought forth in the صَيْف . (M.) ― -b3- [Hence,] اصاف said of a man, (tropical:) He had offspring born to him [in the summer of his age, i. e.] when he was old, or advanced in age: (S, M, O, K, TA:) or he had no offspring born to him until he was advanced in age, or old. (L, TA.) And (tropical:) He abstained from women while a young man, and then married when old, or advanced in age. (M, TA.) -A2- اصاف ا@للّٰهُ عَنِّى شَرَّ فُلَانٍ God turned away, or may God turn away, from me the evil, or mischief, of such a one: (S, O, K: *) belonging to this art. and to art. صوف . (O, TA.)

تَصَيَّفَ , and its var. اِصَّيَّفَ : see 1, first sentence, in four places.

اـِصْتَيَفَ see 1, first sentence.

صَافٌ : see صَايءِفٌ : -A2- and see also art. صوف .

صَيْفٌ as signifying A certain portion of the year is said by ISk to be fem.: (TA, voce شِتَا=ءٌ ; q. v.:) [but by others I find it treated as masc.:] the صَيْف as meaning one of the seasons is well known: (M:) Lth says, it is one of the quarters of the year; and is applied by the vulgar to a half of the year [i. e. to the half-year commencing at the vernal equinox; the other half-year being called by them the شِتَا=ء ]: Az says, it is, with the Arabs, the division which the vulgar in El-'Irák and Khurásán call the رَبِيع [i. e. the spring]; it consists of three months; and the division that next follows it is with the Arabs the قَيْظ ; and in it is the جَمْرَة [q. v.] of the قِيْظ ; then, after this, is the division called the خَرِيف ; and then, after this, the division called the شِتَا=ء : (TA:) [i. e.] it is the quarter of the year vulgarly called the رَبِيع , commencing when the sun enters Aries: but is applied by the vulgar to the قَيْظ , which is the [summer, i. e.] the quarter commencing when the sun enters Cancer: (Msb in art. زمن ; q. v.:) [F says,] the صَيْف is the قَيْظ [i. e. summer, or the hot season]; or [the season] after the رَبِيع : (K:) and [Sgh says,] the صَيْف is one of the divisions of the year; which is after the رَبِيع : (O:) [but unless this explanation in the O denote only a vulgar meaning, and the latter of the two explanations in the K be virtually a repetition, we must suppose that, in each of them, by the ربيع is meant the season of rain thus termed, which ends in March: (see the latter of the two tables which I have inserted voce زَمَنٌ :) most probably, I think, both have been faultily transcribed from what here follows; for the S is largely copied in the O, and the S and O are among the principal sources of the K, which generally follows the O when it differs (rightly or wrongly) from the S:] the صَيْف is one of the divisions of the year; which is after [that called] الرَّبِيعُ الأَوَّلُ and before [that called] القَيْظُ : (S:) [this admits of two renderings, both of which are correct; namely, the quarter after the season of two months called الربيع الاوّل (which ends in March) and before the quarter called القيظ (which is summer); and also the season of two months after that called الربيع الاوّل and before the similar season called القيظ : (see the former of the two tables to which I have referred above:) but probably the latter only was meant by him who first gave. this explanation:] the pl. is أَصْيَافٌ (M, O, K) and صُيُوفٌ : (M, Msb:) ↓ صَيْفَةٌ is a more particular term [app. meaning A single صَيْف ; (see 2;)]; it is like شَتْوَةٌ [q. v.]; (O, K;) and its pl. is صِيَفٌ , like بِدَرٌ pl. of بَدْرَةٌ . (Fr, O, K.) الصَّيْفَ ضَيَّعْتِ اللَّبَنَ is a saying expl. in art. ضيع [q. v.]. (O, K.) ― -b2- الصَّيْفُ also signifies The rain that comes in the [season called] صَيْف ; (S, O, Msb, K;) [see, again, the second of the tables to which I have referred above, and see also نَوْ ٌ ;] and (O, K) so ↓ الصَّيِّفُ ; (M, O, K;) also signifying the herbage thereof: (M:) or, (K,) accord. to Lth, (O,) the latter signifies the rain that falls after the division [a mistake for the rain] called the رَبِيع ; (O, K;) and so the former; (K;) and it is also called ↓ الصَّيْفِىُّ ; (O, K;) which likewise signifies the herbage thereof. (TA.) Hence the prov., relating to the completing of the performance of a needful affair, تَمَامُ الرَّبِيعِ الصَّيْفُ [The completion of the rain called the ربيع is that called the صيف ]: for the rain called the ربيع is the first rain, and the صيف is that which is [next] after it. (TA.) ― -b3- ا=يَةُ الصَّيْفِ is [A verse] in the end ( ا=خِر ) of سُورَةُ النِّسَا=ءِ [the 4th chapter of the Kur-án, but which verse I know not], mentioned in a tradition. (TA.) -A2- Also The female of the بُوم [or owl]. (Kr, M.)

صَيْفَةٌ : see the next preceding paragraph, latter half.

صَيْفِىٌّ A thing of, or belonging to, the [season called] صَيْف . (S, O.) ― -b2- A young camel born in the صَيْف . (M.) [And in like manner a sheep or goat: see صَفَرِىٌّ .] ― -b3- And [hence,] (assumed tropical:) A son born to a father [in the summer of his age, i. e.] old, or advanced in age. (S, M, O.) [See an ex. in a verse cited voce رِبْعِىٌّ .] ― -b4- See also صَيْفٌ , near the end of the paragraph. ― -b5- صَيْفِيَّةٌ [used as a subst., or as an epithet in which the quality of a subst. is predominant, for مِيرَةٌ صَيْفِيَّةٌ ,] and ↓ صَايءِفَةٌ signify The مِيرَة [or provision of corn &c.] in the first part of the صَيْف [here meaning spring]; i. e. the second ميرة ; for the first of the مِيرَ is the رِبْعِيَّة , then the صَيْفِيَّة , then the دَفَيءِيَّة , and then the رَمَضِيَّة : (M:) or the ↓ صَايءِفَة of a people is their مِيرَة in the صَيْف . (S, O, K.) [See مِيرَةٌ .] ― -b6- [ صَيْفِيَّةٌ is also applied to The latter, or last, season of the bringing forth of camels; so in an explanation of هُبَعٌ in the S and TA.]

صَيْفِيَّةٌ [fem. of صَيْفِىٌّ : and also used as a subst., or as an epithet in which the quality of a subst. is predominant: see the latter word].

صَايءِفٌ is used as an imitative sequent in the phrase صَيْفٌ صَايءِفٌ , (S, O, K,) meaning A warm, or hot, [spring or] summer: (PS:) a phrase like لَيْلٌ لَايءِلٌ &c. (S, O.) And one says يَوْمٌ صَايءِفٌ , (S, M, O, Msb, K,) meaning A hot day; (O, K;) and ↓ يَوْمٌ صَافٌ (S, O, K) was sometimes said, meaning صَايءِفٌ ; like يَوْمٌ رَاحٌ [as meaning رَايءِحٌ ]: (S:) and لَيْلَةٌ صَايءِفَةٌ [a hot night]. (S, O, Msb.) ― -b2- And مَطَرٌ صَايءِفٌ [app. Rain coming in the صَيْف , meaning spring; as also ↓ مُصِيفٌ , occurring in a verse cited voce رَسَمَ , q. v.]. (M.) See also صَافٍ in art. صفو .

صَايءِفَةٌ [fem. of صَايءفٌ , q. v. ― -b2- Also, as a subst.,] A warring, or warring and plundering, expedition in the صَيْف [i. e. either spring or summer]: (M, Mgh, and Ham p. 239:) pl. صَوَايءِفُ . (Mgh, and Ham ib.) And [particularly] (Mgh) A warring, or warring and plundering, expedition against the Greeks ( الرُّوم ): because they [i. e. the Arabs] used to go on expeditions of this kind in the صيف , (S, Mgh, O, K,) and to return in the winter, (Mgh,) on account of the cold and snow. (S, O, K.) And they said, وَلِىَ فُلَانٌ الصَّايءِفَةَ , meaning Such a one was commander of the army going on a warring, or warring and plundering, expedition in the صَيْف : (Ham ubi suprà:) [but Mtr says,] he who explains صَايءِفَةٌ as meaning the place [of], or the army [engaged in, such an expedition], errs: [adding that the Hanafee Imám] Mohammad has used the phrase الصَّوَايءِفُ وَنَحْوُهَا مِنَ العَسَاكِرِ العِظَامِ either by surmise or by extension of the [proper] meaning. (Mgh.) ― -b3- See also صَيْفِىٌّ , in two places. -A2- Also The time, or season of the صَيْف . (M, TA.)

الصَّيِّفُ : see صَيْفٌ , last quarter of the paragraph.

صَيِّفَةٌ , originally صَيْوِفَةٌ : see art. صوف .

مَصِيفٌ A place of remaining, staying, dwelling, or abiding, during the [season called] صَيْف ; (S, O, TA;) as also ↓ مُصْطَافٌ (S, K, TA) and ↓ مُتَصَيَّفٌ : (TA:) and a time thereof: (Sb, M, TA:) pl. مَصَايِفُ . (Msb.) ― -b2- And A place in which dates are dried in the [season called] صَيْف . (Har p. 165.) -A2- [Also part. n. of the verb in the phrase صِيفَتِ الأَرْضُ :] you say أَرْضٌ مَصِيفَةٌ and ↓ مَصْيُوفَةٌ Land rained upon by the rain of the [season called] صَيْف . (S, M, O, K.) -A3- Also, applied to a channel in which water flows, Winding, or tortuous: (S, M:) from صَافَ , like مَضِيقٌ from ضَاقَ . (S.) [See an ex. in a verse cited voce كَرَبَةٌ : and see also مَضِيفٌ .]

مُصِيفٌ : see صايءِفٌ . ― -b2- Also, (M, O, K,) and مُصِيفَةٌ , (O, K,) [in the CK, erroneously, مَصِيفٌ and مَصِيفَةٌ ,] and ↓ مِصْيَافٌ , (M, O, K,) applied to a she-camel, (M, O, K,) That has brought forth in the [season called] صَيْف : (M, L, TA:) or having with her her young one: (O, K, TA:) pl. of the last مَصَايِيفُ . (TA in art. جر .) ― -b3- And [hence,] the first, (tropical:) A man having a child born to him [in the summer of his age, i. e.] when he is old, or advanced in age. (TA.)

مِصْيَافٌ , applied to land ( أَرْضٌ ), Having in it abundance of the rain of the [season called] صَيْف . (O, K.) ― -b2- And, so applied, Late in producing herbage. (O, K.) ― -b3- See also مُصِيفٌ . ― -b4- [Hence,] (tropical:) A man who does not take a wife until he has whiteness in the hair of his head mixed with the blackness thereof. (O, K.)

مَصْيُوفَة : see مَصِيفٌ .

مُصْطَافٌ : see مَصِيفٌ .

مَتَصَيَّفٌ : see مَصِيفٌ .