سَقِيفَةٌ

A صُفَّة, (S, Msb, K, TA,) or the like, (TA,) [i. e. a roof, or covering,] such as projects [over the door of a house], (TA,) [or of which the ends of the beams rest upon opposite houses; i. e.] a ظُلَّة; [often applied in the present day to a roofed, or covered, portion of a street or the like;] and any wing or porch or other thing [of a building] that is roofed over: (Msb:) of the measure فَعِيلَةٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولَةٌ: (TA:) plural سَقَايءِفُ (Msb) and [coll. gen. n.] ↓ سَقِيفٌ. (MA.)

Any broad piece of wood, such as a plank, or a broad piece of stone, with which one may form a roof (O, K, TA) to the lurking-place of a hunter &c. (O, TA.) And [the plural] سَقَايءِفُ signifies The طوايق [apparently a mistranscription for طَوَابِق, and, if so, meaning, agreeably with a modern usage, flat stones covering a hollow such as that] of the lurking-place of the hunter. (TA.) [And The pieces of wood which form the roof of the kind of vehicle called مَحْمِل: see عَارِضَةٌ: and see also خُذْرُوفٌ.]

(tropical:) A plank [apparently of the deck] of a ship or boat: (S, K, TA:) plural as above. (S, TA.)

(tropical:) A single cranial bone of the head of the camel: (Ibn- 'Abbád, K, TA:) the cranial bones being termed سَقَايءِفُ الرَّأْسِ. (Ibn-'Abbád, TA.)

And (tropical:) A single rib of a camel: (K, TA:) its ribs being termed سَقَايءِفُ (Az, Z, O, TA) and ↓ سَقِيفٌ. (O, TA.) One says, هَدَمَ السَّفَرُ سَقَايءِفَ البَعِيرِ [Travel disjointed, or luxated,] the ribs of the camel. (Az, Z, TA.)

Also (tropical:) A splint; i. e. a piece of wood with which a bone is set, or reduced from a fractured state: (O, K, TA:) plural as above. (O, TA.)

And A broad and long piece of wood, which is put, or laid down, and upon which are wound the mats of reeds (البَوَارِىّ) above the house-tops of the people of El-Basrah. (TA. [See also سَفِيقَةٌ.])

And (assumed tropical:) Any piece of gold, and of silver, that is beaten thin and long. (TA. [See, again, سَفِيقَةٌ.])