be stormy, be tempestuous

, aor. , (S, O, Msb, K,) inf. n. عَصْفٌ and عُصُوفٌ, (O, Msb, K,) The wind blew violently, or vehemently; as also ↓ اعصفت; (S, O, Msb, K;) the latter of the dial. of BenooAsad. (S, O.) ― -b2- Hence, (TA,) عَصْفٌ signifies also (tropical:) The being quick, or swift; (Lth, O, TA;) and so [↓ إِعْصَافٌ and] ↓ تَعَصُّفٌ: (TA:) and is used in relation to anything: (Lth, O:) عَصَفَ signifying (assumed tropical:) He, or it, was quick, or swift. (K.) One says, of a she-camel, تَعْصِفُ بِرَاكِبِهَا (tropical:) She goes quickly, or swiftly, with her rider; (Sh, S, Z, O, TA;) likening her to the wind in the swiftness of her course. (Z, TA.) And ↓ اعصفت فِى السَّيْرِ (assumed tropical:) She (a camel) was, or became, quick, or swift, in going along: (TA:) and ↓ اعصف said of a horse, he went, or passed, along quickly, or swiftly; (S, O, K;) like احصف, (O,) of which it is [said to be] a dial. var. (S.) ― -b3- [Hence, also,] عَصَفَتِ الحَرْبُ بِالقَوْمِ, (O, K, * TA,) aor. تَعْصِفُ بِهِمْ, (S, O, TA,) (tropical:) War, or the war, carried off, and destroyed, the people, or party; (S, O, K, TA;) as also بهم ↓ اعصفت, (O, K,) which is [said to be] the more correct. (O, TA.) ― -b4- And عَصَفَ signifies (assumed tropical:) It (a thing) inclined, or declined. (K.) [See عَاصِفٌ, last sentence.] -A2- عَصَفَ عِيَالَهُ, (Ibn-'Abbád, O, K, TA,) and لِعِيَالِهِ, (Ibn-'Abbád, O,) aor. , (K,) inf. n. عَصْفٌ, (S, O,) He gained, or earned, or he sought sustenance, (Ibn-Abbád, S, O, K, TA,) for his household, or family; (Ibn-'Abbád, O, K, TA;) and so لِعِيَالِهِ ↓ اعتصف; (Lh, S, * O, * TA;) like as one says صَرَفَ and اصطرف: and some add, in explaining عَصَفَ عِيَالَهُ, and he sought for his household, or family; and exercised for them art, or skill, in the management of affairs. (TA.) -A3- عَصَفَ الزَّرْعَ, (S, O, K, TA,) aor. , inf. n. عَصْفٌ, (TA,) He cut, or clipped, the corn before its attaining to maturity; (S, O, K, TA;) i. e. he cut off its leaves that were inclining in its lower part, in order to lighten it; for if he did not thus, it would lean: or he cut it from its stalks. (TA.)

see 1, in five places. ― -b2- اعصف (said of a man, S, O) He died, or perished. (S, O, K.) ― -b3- And He (a man) deviated, declined, or wandered, from the road, or way. (TA.) ― -b4- اعصفت الإِبِلُ The camels went round about the well, eager for the water, raising the the dust, (En-Nadr, O, K,) and spreading it, around. (En-Nadr, O.) -A2- اعصف الزَّرْعُ The corn, or seed-produce, put forth its عَصْف [q. v.]: (S, * O, K:) or its عَصْف became long: or it attained to the time for its being cut, or clipped. (TA. [See 1, last sentence.])

see 1, second sentence.

see 1, last sentence but one.

The corn, or seed-produce: produced its culm, or jointed stalk. (TA.)

The herb (بَقْل) of corn, or seed-produce: (Fr, S, O, K:) and (TA) the leaves, or blades, of corn, or seed-produce; (MA, * Mgh, TA;) as also عُصُوفٌ; each a pl. of ↓ عَصْفَةٌ: (MA: [or rather عَصْفٌ is a coll. gen. n. of which عُصُوفٌ is the pl. and ↓ عَصْفَةٌ is the n. un.:]) or the leaves, or blades, that are upon the stalk of corn, or seedproduce, and that dry up and crumble; as also ↓ عَصْفَةٌ and ↓ عَصِيفَةٌ and ↓ عُصَافَةٌ: or the leaves, and what is not eaten, thereof: in these three different senses it is expl. as used in the Kur lv. 11: (TA:) or it there means the stalk, or stem, of corn: (Fr, S voce رَيْحَانٌ:) or straw; (Jel, TA;) and so الزَّرْعِ ↓ عَصِيفُ; (M voce تِبْنٌ;) or الزَّرْعِ ↓ عَصِيفَةُ: (so in copies of the K voce تِبْنٌ:) and عُصُوفٌ signifies straws: (IAar, TA:) or عَصْفٌ signifies dry leaves, like straw: (Bd in lv. 11:) or corn, or seed-produce, or barley, cut while green, for fodder; syn. قَصِيلٌ: (En-Nadr, TA:) or leaves of corn, or seed-produce, that are cut, and eaten while fresh: or the leaves of the ears of corn; as also ↓ عَصِيفَةٌ: or what are cut thereof; as also ↓ عَصِيفٌ: or both signify the leaves, of corn, that incline in its lower part, and which one cuts off, in order that it may become lightened: or the former signifies the ears, themselves, of corn: and the pl. is عُصُوفٌ. (TA.) كَعَصْفٍ مَأْكُولٍ, in the Kur [cv. last verse], means Like corn of which the grain has been eaten and the straw thereof remains: (El- Hasan El-Basree, S, O, K:) or like leaves of which the contents have been taken and which remain without any grain therein: (O, K:) or like عَصْف, (O,) or leaves, (K,) which the beasts have eaten: (O, K:) or, as Sa'eed Ibn-Jubeyr is related to have said, like barley growing or growing forth [that has been eaten]. (TA.) ― -b2- And IAar says, (O, TA,) [the pl.] عُصُوفٌ, (O, K, TA,) with damm to the ع, (TA,) [in the CK, erroneously, عَصُوف,] signifies Handfuls of reaped corn; syn. كَدَرٌ [a coll. gen. n. of which the n. un. is كَدَرَةٌ]: (O, TA:) in the copies of the K, كُدْرَة; and in the L, كد. (TA.) -A2- And accord. to IAar, (O,) عُصُوفٌ signifies also Wines; syn. خُمُورٌ. (O, L, K. [In the CK خَمْرَة; and in the TA, as from the K, خمر.])

[as an inf. n. un. of 1 signifies A gust, or strong puff, of wind. ― -b2- And hence,] (assumed tropical:) The odour, (K,) or fragrance (فَغْمَة) of odour, (Z, TA,) or exhaled odour, (IF, O,) of wine: (IF, Z, O, K, TA:) likened to the عَصْفَة of wind. (Z, TA.) -A2- See also عَصْفٌ, in three places.

A seller of تِبْن [i. e. straw, or straw that has been trodden, or thrashed, and cut]. (IAar, O, TA.)

: see عَاصِفٌ. ― -b2- Hence, (Z, TA,) (tropical:) Swift; applied to a she-ostrich, and to a she-camel (S, O, K, TA) that goes swiftly with her rider; (S, O, TA;) likened to the wind in the swiftness of her course: (Z, TA:) pl. عُصُفٌ: (TA:) and ↓ عَاصِفٌ is applied in like manner to a she-camel as meaning swift; (Sh, TA;) and so too is ↓ مُعْصِفَةٌ. (TA.)

: see عَاصِفٌ: -A2- and see also عَصْفٌ, in two places.

What has fallen from the ears of corn, [app. when they are trodden, or thrashed, consisting] of the straw, (S, O, K, [but in the CK التنِّيْن is put in the place of التِّبْن,]) and the like. (S.) See also عَصْفٌ. Also What the wind has carried away. (TA.)

The combined leaves in which are the ears of corn: (S, O, K, TA:) or the leaves that open from around the fruit: or the heads of the ears of wheat. (TA.) See also عَصْفٌ, in three places.