سِجْفٌ
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سَجْفٌ [of which the former is the more common] A curtain; a veil; or a thing that veils, conceals, hides, covers, or protects; (S, K;) as also
سِجَافٌ, and
سِجَافَةٌ: (TA:) or a pair of curtains having an opening between them: (IDrd, K:) or each half of a pair of curtains, (Lth, K, TA,) divided in the midst, (Lth, TA,) by which any door, or entrance, is veiled; (Lth, K, TA;) as also
سِجَافٌ: (K, TA:) this last is not a plural of سِجْفٌ: (TA:) thus السِّجْفَانِ signifies the two separate halves [that hang side by side, so as to meet together,] of the curtain of a tent, (Lth, S, TA,) in the fore part thereof: (S:) so in a verse of En-Nábighah EdhDhubyánee cited in the second paragraph of article رفع: (S, TA:) the plural of سِجْفٌ and سَجْفٌ is أَسْجَافٌ and سُجُوفٌ; and the plural of
سِجَافٌ is سُجُفٌ. (TA.) [Hence] one says, أَرْخَى اللَّيْلُ
سُجُوفَهُ (tropical:) The night let down its curtains. (TA.)