شفق

1 شَفِقَ  and شَفَقَ : see 4, in five places. ― -b2- شَفِقَ عَلَيْهِ signifies He was niggardly of it: (TA:) [thus] the saying [of a poet] “ كَمَا شَفِقَتْ عَلَى الزَّادِ العِيَالُ
” means [Like as the household] are niggardly of the provision: (IDrd, M, O:) because he who is niggardly of a thing is عَلَيْهِ ↓ مُشْفِقٌ [i. e. fearful, or cautious, on account of it]. (M.) 2 تَشْفِيقٌ  signifies (tropical:) The making [a gift or the like (see مُشَفَّقٌ）] scanty, or little in amount or quantity; as also ↓ إِِشْفَاقٌ . (O, K, TA.) ― -b2- And (tropical:) The weaving badly. (K, TA.) You say, شفّق المِلْحَفَةَ (tropical:) He wove badly, (M,) or so as to make it scanty in the yarn, or unsubstantial, (TA,) the [kind of wrapper called] ملحفة. (M, TA.) -A2- See also 4, last sentence. 4 اشفق  signifies He feared, or was cautious; as also ↓ شَفِقَ [in the CK شَفَقَ]; or only the former: (K, TA:) [accord. to ISd,] ↓ شَفِقَ , inf. n. شَفَقٌ, signifies he feared: (M:) IDrd says, ↓ شَفِقْتُ [in one of my copies of the S شفَقتُ] and أَشْفَقْتُ are syn., (S, O, TA,) as some assert, (O, TA,) but the lexicologists disallow this, (S, O,) saying that one should only say أَشْفَقْتُ: (O:) accord. to Er-Rághib, الإِِشْفَاقُ signifies [the being affected with] care, or solicitude, mixed with fear; and when it is trans. by means of مِنْ, the meaning of fear is most apparent in it; but when trans. by means of عَلَى, the meaning of care, or solicitude, is most apparent in it: (TA: [and the like is said by Bd in xxi. 29:]) or it signifies [the being affected with] fright [or fear]; sometimes mixed with faithful or sincere or honest advice; and sometimes divested thereof: (Ham p. 179:) one says, أَشْفَقْتُ مِنْهُ, (S,) or مِنْ كَذَا, (Msb,) I feared, or was cautious of, (S, Msb,) him, or it, (S,) or such a thing: (Msb:) or اشفق مِنْهُ he feared him, or it: (MA:) and أَشْفَقْتُ عَلَيْهِ, (S, [in which it is implied that this differs from أَشْفَقْتُ مِنْهُ,]) or عَلَى الصَّغِيرِ, I was affectionate, kind, or compassionate, and favourably inclined, [towards him, or] towards the little one: (Msb: [and a similar explanation is given in the MA:]) and ↓ شَفَقْتُ , aor. شَفِقَ , is a dial. var. thereof [i. e. of أَشْفَقْتُ when trans. by means of عَلَى, and perhaps also when it is trans. by means of مِنْ]: (Msb:) or اشفق عَلَيْهِ signifies [he was solicitously affectionate, &c., towards him; agreeably with the explanation of Er-Rághib above, and with that here following;] he was affected with pity, or compassion, and tenderness, and fear, for him, at the same time giving him faithful or sincere or honest advice, أَنْ يَنَالَهُ مَكْرُوهٌ [lest some disliked or evil event should betide him]: (TA:) or he feared, or was cautious, for him: and اشفق مِنْهُ he was impatient of him, or it: and ↓ شَفَقَ is a dial. var. [of اشفق when trans. by means of مِنْ, and app. also when trans. by means of عَلَى]. (M.) -A2- See also 2. -A3- Also He entered upon [the time of] the شَفَق [q. v.]. (M.) And He came in a [time of] شَفَق: and so ↓ شفّق . (M.) شَفَقٌ  Fear: (K:) [see also شَفِقَ, (of which it is the inf. n.) in the next preceding paragraph:] or fear [arising] from strictness (شِدَّة) of faithful or sincere or honest advice; (M, TA;) as also ↓ شَفَقَةٌ : (M:) or ↓ the latter signifies the fear of him who gives faithful or sincere or honest advice, in consequence of his doing so, for him to whom such advice is given: (O:) or the former, (K, TA,) and ↓ the latter also, (TA,) the eagerness, or striving, of him who gives such advice, to rectify, or amend, the state of him to whom that advice is given: (K, TA: [said in the latter to be a tropical application of the words; but why, I see not:]) ↓ شَفَقَةٌ is subst. from الإِِشْفَاقُ, (S, Msb, TA,) and شَفَقٌ is syn. therewith (S, O, K, TA) as being also a subst. from الإِِشْفَاقُ: (S, TA:) [it is said that] the primary signification of ↓ شَفَقَةٌ is weakness: (Ham p. 179:) and it is conjoined with خَوْفٌ [fear]; therefore it is not applied as an attribute to God: (Idem p. 722:) [generally] it signifies affection, kindness, benignity, compassion, or favourable inclination: (MA:) [or solicitous affection &c.:] or pity, or compassion, and tenderness, and fear of the betiding of some disliked or evil event, together with faithful or sincere or honest advice. (TA.) -A2- شَفَقٌ also signifies The redness (Kh, S, Msb, K) in the horizon (K) from sunset until the time of the last عِشَآء [i. e. nightfall], (Kh, S, Msb, K,) when it disappears, (Kh, S, Msb,) and the white شَفَق remains until the middle [or rather until a late period varying at different seasons] of the night: (Msb:) or until near that time: or until near the عَتَمَة [q. v., generally meaning the same, or nearly so]: (K:) or the redness that is seen in the sky at sunset: (IDrd, O:) or the remains of the light and redness of the sun in the first part of the night, until near the عَتَمَة: (S:) or the light and redness of the sun, seen at sunset, until the time of the prayer of nightfall: (M:) or the mixture of the light of day with the blackness of night at sunset: (Er-Rághib, TA:) accord. to Zj, the redness that is in the region of sunset after the setting of the sun: this is the meaning given as of common repute in the books of lexicology; and Mtr says [in the Mgh] that it means the redness accord. to a number of the Companions of the Prophet and of the people of the generation next succeeding them: but accord. to Aboo-Hureyreh, it means the whiteness [after sunset, which, to distinguish it from the شَفَق commonly so called, is often termed the white شَفَق, as in an instance above]: (Msb:) IAth says that this word has two contr. meanings; being applied to the redness that is seen after sunset; and to the whiteness remaining in the western horizon after the said redness. (TA.) Fr says, I heard one of the Arabs say, عَلَيْهِ ثَوْبٌ كَأَنَّهُ الشَّفَقُ [Upon him is, or was, a garment as though it were the شَفَق]: and it was red. (S.) ― -b2- [Hence,] (tropical:) A garment, or piece of cloth, dyed red. (AA, TA.) ― -b3- And Day. (Zj, M, K.) -A3- Also i. q. نَاحِيَةٌ (assumed tropical:) [A side, &c.; or a remote side]: pl. أَشْفَاقٌ. (O, K.) One says, أَنَا فِى أَشْفَاقٍ مِنْ هٰذَا الأَمْرِ i. e. نَوَاحٍ [meaning (assumed tropical:) I am apart, or aloof, from this affair; as though in, or on, remote sides thereof]: (O, TA:) and in like manner فِى عُرُوضٍ مِنْهُ [app. a mistranscription for عَرُوضٍ i. e. نَاحِيَةٍ] and فى أَعْرَاضٍ منه i. e. نَوَاحٍ. (TA.) -A4- And (tropical:) A bad thing; syn. رَدِىْءٌ: (Lth, S, M, O, K, TA: [in the TA said to be written by J with kesr to the ف; but not so in either of my copies of the S:]) applied to a garment, or piece of cloth, (Mgh, TA, and Ham p. 179,) [in this sense, or] as meaning bad and thin: (Mgh in art. خرث:) [said to be] from شَفَقَةٌ signifying “ weakness: ” (Ham ubi suprà:) seldom pluralized: (O:) and used alike as masc. and fem., being applied as an epithet to a مِلْحَفَة, (M, O,) meaning رَدِيئَةٌ. (M.) شَفِقٌ  : see شَفِيقٌ, in two places. شَفَقَةٌ  : see شَفَقٌ, in five places. شَفُوقٌ  : see the next paragraph. شَفِيقٌ  is syn. with ↓ مُشْفِقٌ as part. n. of 4 [signifying Fearing, or fearful, or cautious; and also affectionate, kind, or compassionate, &c.]; (S, O, Msb, * K;) as also ↓ شَفِقٌ (Msb) [and in an intensive sense ↓ شَفُوقٌ ; and , from what follows, it appears that شَفِيقٌ also is used as an intensive epithet]: or ↓ شَفِقٌ signifies fearing; and its pl. is شَفِقُونَ: (M, TA:) and شَفِيقٌ, one giving faithful or sincere or honest advice, eager, or striving, to rectify, or amend, the state of him to whom that advice is given. (M.) “ إِِنَّ الشَّفِيقَ بِسُوْءِ ظَنٍ مُولَعٌ
” [Verily the affectionate, &c., or the very affectionate &c., is addicted to evil opinion,] is a prov., applied in the case of the man who fears, for his friend, the accidents of fortune, by reason of his excessive شَفَقَة [or affection, &c.]. (TA.) And it is said in the Kur [xxi. 50], وَهُمْ مِنَ ↓ السَّاعَةِ مُشْفِقُونَ [meaning And who are fearful of the time of the resurrection]; the signification of fear being most apparent when مُشْفِقٌ is thus trans. by means of مِنْ. (TA.) See also an instance of ↓ مُشْفِقٌ [in a similar sense] in the first paragraph of this art. مُشْفَقٌ  : see the last paragraph. -A2- [Accord. to Freytag, it signifies also Fear: but he names no authority for this.] مُشْفِقٌ  : see شَفِيقٌ, in three places. عَطَآءٌ مُشَفَّقٌ  (tropical:) A gift made scanty, or little in amount or quantity; (S, TA;) as also ↓ مُشْفَقٌ . (TA.) Credit: Lane Lexicon