زيف doesn't appear in Hans Wehr's Modern Standard Arabic dictionary, but Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon has 2 entries for it, distinguished by diacritics. Select one below for the full classical Arabic definition.

• زَافَ Form 1

  1 زَافَ ذ , aor. يَزِيفُ, (S, O, K,) inf. n. زَيْفٌ and زَيَفَانٌ (O, K) and زُيُوفٌ, (TA,) said of a camel, (S, TA,) and of a man, &c., (TA,) He walked with an elegant and a proud and self-conceited gait, with an affect…

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• زَيْفٌ

  زَيْفٌ ذ : see زَائِفٌ, in four places. -A2- Also The إِفْرِيز, i. e., (Kr, TA,) the طَنَف, (Kr, O, K, TA,) [meaning the coping, or ledge, or cornice,] that protects a wall, (O, K, TA,) surrounding the upper part of the …

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