skewer

, (S,) or سَفِدَ عَلَى الأُنْثَى and [عَلَيْهَا] سَفَدَ, (K,) or سَفِدَهَا (M, Msb) and سَفَدَهَا, (M, A,) aor. of the former , (S, M, Msb, K,) and of the latter , (M, K,) inf. n. سِفَادٌ (S, M, Msb) and سَفْدٌ, which are of both the verbs; (M;) and ↓ سَافَدَهَا, inf. n. سِفَادٌ; (A;) He leaped the female: (S, K:) said of a bird, (A, Msb,) &c.; (Msb;) or of any beast or bird of prey; (As, TA;) or of a quadruped and of a bird; (M, TA;) or of a goat (S, TA) and of a camel (As, S, TA) and of a bull and of a beast of prey and of a bird; (S, TA;) and, in poetry, of a swimmer [app. meaning a fish]: (M, TA:) sometimes, also, it is used to convey an allusion to الجِمَاع [relating to human beings]. (A.)

(assumed tropical:) The arranging of the flesh- meat upon the سَفُّود, to roast: (K:) Z [app.] makes it tropical, by his derivation of سَفُّودٌ [q. v.]. (TA.)

see 1: ― -b2- and see also 6.

He made him to leap [the female]. (S, * K, * PS, TK.) ― -b2- أَسْفِدْنِى تَيْسَكَ, mentioned by Lh, means Lend me thy he-goat in order that he may leap my she-goat: and Umeiyeh Ibn-Abi-s-Salt uses its pass. part. n. metaphorically in relation to the زَنْد [or piece of stick used for producing fire]; saying, " وَالأَرْضُ صَيَّرَهَا الإِلٰهُ طَرُوقَةً ↓ لِلْمَآءِ حَتَّى كُلُّ زَنْدٍ مُسْفَدُ " [And the land, God made it to be soaked by the water, so that every زند was lent; no man being able to go far enough to cut one for himself]. (M, TA.)

He mounted his mare from behind; (M;) as also ↓ استسفدها: (AAF, M:) or بَعِيرَهُ ↓ استسفد he came to his camel from behind, and mounted him: (IAar, K:) and [in like manner] تسفّدَهُ i. q. تَعَرْقَبَهُ, (K,) i. e. he mounted him from behind. (TA.)

(S) and الطُّيُورُ, (A,) or تسافد السِبَاعُ (K) and الطُّيُورُ, (TA,) and الشِيَاهُ ↓ سافدت, (Msb, [perhaps a mistranscription for تسافدت,]) The beasts of prey [and the birds and the sheep or goats] leaped one another. (TK.)

see 5, in two places.

A certain game, in which boys arrange themselves one behind another, every one laying hold upon the حُجْزَة [or uppermost part of the waist-wrapper] of his fellow, from behind him. (T in art. جعر, and TA.)

A mare that is not allowed to be leaped [by the stallion] until she has completed her مُنْيَة, which is a period of twenty days. (Kr, M.)

(S, M, Msb, K) and سُفُّودٌ (M, TA) (assumed tropical:) An iron instrument, (S, M, K,) with curved prongs, (M, TA,) with which flesh-meat is roasted: (S, K:) Z makes is to be tropical, saying [in the A] that it is so called because of its adhering to that which is roasted upon it: (TA:) pl. سَفَافِيدُ. (Msb, TA.) [For instances of substs. similar to سَفُّودٌ and سُفُّودٌ, see سُبُّوحٌ.]

and إِسْفِنْدٌ Wine: (K:) the etymologists assert that its د is a substitute for the ط in إِسْفَنْطٌ, which is one of the names of wine. (TA.)

pass. part. n. of 4, q. v.