سَافِيَاءُ
1.
Dust, synonym غُبَارٌ: (M, K:) or dust (تُرَابٌ) and dry herbage or the like: (Ham p. 445:) or dust (تُرَابٌ) with the wind: (M:) or wind that bears, or carries, or carries away, dust, (M, K, TA,) much, upon the surface of the earth, impelling it against men: (TA, and in like manner in the Ham ubi suprà:) and
رِيَاحٌ سَوَافٍ, (TA,) plural of رِيحٌ سَافِيَةٌ, (Ham ubi suprà,) winds that raise the dust, or make it to fly, and carry it away, or disperse it: you say, لَعِبَتْ بِهِ السَّوَافَى [The winds raising the dust, &c., made sport with him, or it]. (TA.)
2.
[Also Tracks, or streaks, upon a pool put in motion by the wind: so says Freytag; but he names not any authority for this.]