اصفار aṣfār A s. plur. (of صفر ṣifr) Ciphers.

اصفر aṣfar A adj. Yellow.

صفا ṣafā A (from صفو Heb. To be clear, to shine) s. f. 1. Purity, cleanness, clearness. 2. Pleasure, content. 3. adj. (dakh.) Pure, clean. صفا صاف ṣafaṉ ṣāf (smack smooth) Without a trace or vestige.

صفات ṣifāt A s. f. plur. of صفت ṣifat, q. v.

صفاٴي ṣafā-ī A. s. f. Purity, cleanness, clearness, perspicuity. صفاٴي بتاني ṣafā-ī batānī, To reject a petition without ceremony, to refuse flatly. صفاٴي کرنا ṣafā-i karnā, To make clean work of it, to accomplish fully.

صفت ṣifat A (from وصف) s. f. 1. Praise. 2. Quality, attribute. 3. Manner, description. 4. A noun adjective. 5. Like, resembling. صفت موصوف ṣifat mauṣūf, An adjective (with its sub- stantive).

صفحه ṣafḥa A (from صفح To turn the face) s. m. Page (of a book), surface, face.

صفر ṣafar A or ṣafaru-l-muz̤affar, s. m. The se- cond month of the Muhammadan year. (On the 20th day of this month is held the festival of Sarotan, in commemoration of the junction of the head and body of Ḥusain. The 28th and the last days of this month are reckoned unfortunate; the former on account of Ḥasanʼs being poisoned by his wife; the latter because destructive vegetables are supposed to be pro- duced on that day). ¶ ṣifr, s. m. A cipher.

صفرا ṣafrā A s. f. Bile, gall, yellow.

صفراي ṣafrā-ī A. adj. Bilious.

عصفر uﻌṣfur A s. m. Safflower. (Carthamus tinc- torius).

مصفا muṣaffā A (prop. مصفيٰٰ part. pass. II. of صفو) adj. Clean, clarified, pure.

معصفر maʼaﻌṣfar A (prop. muʼaﻌṣfar, from عصفر) s. m. Safflower or bastard saffron. (Car- thamus tinctorius).

نصفانصف niṣf-ā-niṣf A. Halved, in halves, half and half.

نصفانصفي niṣfā-niṣfī A. adv. Half and half, in halves.