صَّيْف

SayofN * as signifying A certain portion of the year is said by ISk to be fem.: (TA, voce $itaA='N ; q. v.:) [but by others I find it treated as masc.:] the Sayof 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 $itaA=' ]: Az says, it is, with the Arabs, the division which the vulgar in El-'Irák and Khurásán call the rabiyE [i. e. the spring ]; it consists of three months; and the division that next follows it is with the Arabs the qayoZ ; and in it is the jamorap [q. v.] of the qiyoZ ; then, after this, is the division called the xariyf ; and then, after this, the division called the $itaA=' : (TA:) [i. e.] it is the quarter of the year vulgarly called the rabiyE , commencing when the sun enters Aries: but is applied by the vulgar to the qayoZ , which is the [ summer, i. e.] the quarter commencing when the sun enters Cancer: (Msb in art. zmn ; q. v.:) [F says,] the Sayof is the qayoZ [i. e. summer, or the hot season ]; or [the season ] after the rabiyE : (K:) and [Sgh says,] the Sayof is one of the divisions of the year; which is after the rabiyE : (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 rbyE is meant the season of rain thus termed, which ends in March: (see the latter of the two tables which I have inserted voce zamanN :) 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 Sayof is one of the divisions of the year; which is after [ that called ] Alr~abiyEu AlA^aw~alu and before [ that called ] AlqayoZu : (S:) [this admits of two renderings, both of which are correct; namely, the quarter after the season of two months called AlrbyE AlAw~l ( which ends in March ) and before the quarter called AlqyZ ( which is summer ); and also the season of two months after that called AlrbyE AlAw~l and before the similar season called AlqyZ : (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 A^aSoyaAfN (M, O, K) and SuyuwfN : (M, Msb:) ↓ SayofapN is a more particular term [app. meaning A single Sayof ; (see 2;)]; it is like $atowapN [q. v.]; (O, K;) and its pl. is SiyafN , like bidarN pl. of badorapN . (Fr, O, K.) AlS~ayofa Day~aEoti All~abana is a saying expl. in art. DyE [q. v.]. (O, K.) ― -b2- AlS~ayofu also signifies The rain that comes in the [ season called ] Sayof ; (S, O, Msb, K;) [see, again, the second of the tables to which I have referred above, and see also nawoN ;] and (O, K) so ↓ AlS~ay~ifu ; (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 rabiyE ; (O, K;) and so the former; (K;) and it is also called ↓ AlS~ayofiY~u ; (O, K;) which likewise signifies the herbage thereof. (TA.) Hence the prov., relating to the completing of the performance of a needful affair, tamaAmu Alr~abiyEi AlS~ayofu [ The completion of the rain called the rbyE is that called the Syf ]: for the rain called the rbyE is the first rain, and the Syf is that which is [next] after it. (TA.) ― -b3- A=yapu AlS~ayofi is [ A verse ] in the end ( A=xir ) of suwrapu Aln~isaA='i [ the 4 th chapter of the Kur-án, but which verse I know not], mentioned in a tradition. (TA.) -A2- Also The female of the buwm [or owl ]. (Kr, M.)