سفوف

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Arabic

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Root
س ف ف (s f f)
3 terms

Pronunciation

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Noun

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سَفُوف (safūfm (plural سَفُوفَات (safūfāt))

  1. (obsolete) powdered or grained medicine
    • a. 1050, مروان بن جناح [Marwān ibn Janāḥ], edited by Gerrit Bos, Fabian Käs, كتاب التلخيص [kitāb at-talḵīṣ] [On the Nomenclature of Medicinal Drugs], Leiden: Brill, published 2020, →DOI, →ISBN, 882 (fol. 74v,10–12), page 1045:
      القمائح اسم واقع على جميع السفوفات، قال المؤلّف: في اللغة يقال اقتمحتَ الشيء إذا بلّغتَه من راحتك إلى فيك، والاسم القميحة.
      Al-qamāʾiḥ is a name that applies for medicinal powders in genere. The author: From the lexicographers: One can say iqtamaḥta al-šayʾ (“you ate something”) if you swallow it from the palm of your hand to your mouth. The noun is al-qamīḥa.
  2. a kind of sweet from toasted nuts or seeds (recipe sites on the web will tell you more about)

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