اسعف

, (K,) verbal noun إِسْعَافٌ, (TA,) It (a thing, TA) drew near, or approached: (K, TA:) and اسعف بِهِ it drew near, or approached, to him, or it. (TA.)

اسعف لَهُ It (an object of the chase) became within his power, or reach. (K.)

اسعف إِلَيْهِ He tended, repaired, or betook himself, to, or towards, him, or it. (TA.)

اسعف بِأَهْلِهِ He came to his family; synonym أَلَمَّ. (K.) [And in a similar sense the verb is transitive without a particle, as will be shown by the last sentence of this paragraph.]

-A2- أَسْعَفْتُهُ I aided, assisted, or helped, him to perform his affair. (Msb. [See also 3.])

And اسعفهُ بِحَاجَتِهِ, (S, Msb, K, *) verbal noun إِسْعَافٌ, (Msb,) He performed, or accomplished, for him the object of his want; (S, Msb, K;) as also بِهَا ↓ سَعَفَهُ, (Ibn-'Abbád, K, * TA,) aorist سَعَفَ , (K,) verbal noun سَعْفٌ. (TA.)

It is said in a tradition, thus related, فَاطِمَةُ بَضْعَةٌ مِنِّى يُسْعِفُنِى مَا يُسْعِفُهَا, meaning [Fátimeh is a part of me:] that betides, or happens to, [or affects,] me which betides, or happens to, [or affects,] her. (TA. [See another reading in article بضع.])