ضيف
Not in Hans Wehr
This word isn't in Hans Wehr — but it's in Lane's Lexicon
ضيف doesn't appear in Hans Wehr's Modern Standard Arabic dictionary, but Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon has 4 entries for it, distinguished by diacritics. Select one below for the full classical Arabic definition.
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ضَافَ Form 1
1 ضَافَ ذ , (M, K,) [aor. يَضِيفُ,] inf. n. ضَيْفٌ; (TK;) and , (M,) and , and ; (K;) He, or it, inclined, (M, K,) and approached, or drew near; إِلَيْهِ [to him, or it]. (M.) -b2- And ضافت الشَّمْسُ, (S, M, Mgh,) or ضاف…
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ضيّف Form 2
2 ضيّف ذ , intrans.: see 1, first and second sentences. -A2- As trans.: see 4, last sentence, in four places. -b2- [Hence,] ضَيَّفْتُهُ signifies also (assumed tropical:) I protected him, or defended him, from him who so…
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ضَيْفٌ
ضَيْفٌ ذ A guest: and guests: (MA:) so called because adjoined to the family and fed with them: (Ham p. 124:) it is applied to one, and to a pl. number, (S, M, MA, O, Msb, K,) and to a male and to a female, (S, O, Msb, K…
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ضِيفٌ
ضِيفٌ ذ The side (T, S, M, O, K) of a valley (T, M) and of a mountain (M) [&c.: see 6]: and, as metaphorically used by an anonymous poet, of the ذَكَر: (M:) and signifies the sides of a valley. (TA.) -b2- And one says, ف…
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