a verbal noun of سَفَرَ in the phrase سَفَرَ بَيْنَالقَوْمِ [q. v.]. (S, Mgh, Msb, K.) [And hence, The office of theسَفِير (q. v.). See also De Sacy's Chrest. Ar., sec. ed., i. 126 and 172: and Quatremère's Hist. des Sultans Mamlouks, i. 193.]
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-A2- Also The falling of one's hair from [above] his forehead. (Sgh, TA.)