سَلَفَ

1 salafa * , (S, M, Msb, K,) aor. salufa , (S, M, Msb,) or, accord. to some, salifa , and accord. to IKtt, salafN and salifa , (MF,) inf. n. safN , (S, K,) or suluwfN , (Msb,) [both app. correct,] It (a thing, K) [and also he (a man)] passed; passed away; (S, Msb, K;) came to an end, or to nought; or became cut off: (Msb:) and, (K,) inf. n. salofN , (M, MF, and so in copies of the K,) or safN , (so in the CK,) and suluwfN , (M, K,) he (a man, K) [and also it (a thing)] went before, or preceded; (M, K;) and so ↓ sAlf , said of a camel. (K.) In a verse cited voce salofa radaAdN is used by poetic license for salafa : but this kind of contraction is allowed by the Basrees only in verbs of which the medial radical letter is with kesr or damm, as in Ealoma for Ealima , and karoma for karuma . (M. [See saruEa .]) ― -b2- You say also, salafa lahu EamalN SaAliHN , meaning A good, or righteous, deed of his preceded [ so as to prepare for him a future reward ]. (TA.) ― -b3- And salafati Aln~aAqapu , inf. n. suluwfN , The she-camel was, or became, among the foremost of the camels in arriving at the water. (TA.) ― -b4- [Golius and Freytag mention also salafa as a trans. verb; the former explaining it as signifying “ Præteriit, præcessit, rem; ” and the latter adding “ tempore, ” and assigning to it the inf. ns. salofN and suluwfN ; as on the authority of the K; in which I find no indication of such a usage of this verb.] -A2- salafa AlA^aroDa , (S, M, K;) aor. salufa , inf. n. salofN ; (S, M;) and ↓ AslfhA ; (M, K;) He turned over the land for sowing: (M, K:) or (so in the K, but in the M “ and ”) he made it even with the misolafap [q. v.]. (S, M, K.) ― -b2- salafa AlmazaAdapa , inf. n. salofN , [in some copies of the K salaf ,] He oiled, or greased, the mzAdp [or leathern water-bag ]. (K.)