سَفْعَةٌ

(assumed tropical:) A stroke from a devil: (TA:) or a touch of madness or diabolical possession, in a person, as though a devil had laid hold upon his نَاصِيَة: (S, TA:) [see سَفَعَ بَنَاصِيَتِهِ:] or a stroke with the evil eye: (TA:) or a stroke of an [evil] eye by which one is affected from the jinn's looking at him; as also نَظْرَةٌ: (T in article نظر:) or an evil eye. (K, TA: [in the CK, for سَفْعَةٌأىْ عَيْنٌ, is put سَفْعَةٌ أَوْ عَيْنٌ.]) One says, بَهِ سَفْعَةٌ In him is a touch of madness, &c. (S.) And أَصَابَتْهُ سَفْعَةٌ An evil eye smote him. (K, TA.)