سَقْفٌ
1.
The ceiling, roof, or covering, (JK, MA, PS,) of a house or chamber or tent; (JK, S, MA, K, PS;) as also
سَقِفٌ; (K;) so called because of its height, and the tallness of its wall [or walls]: (TA:) plural of the former سُقُوفٌ and سُقُفٌ, (S, Msb, K,) the latter plural on the authority of Akh, (S,) extr., (Msb,) or, according to Fr, this is plural of
سَقِيفٌ, (S, Msb, TA,) or, according to Fr, it may be a plural plural, i. e. you may say سَقْفٌ and سُقُوفٌ and [then] سُقُفٌ [as plural of سُقُوفٌ], (TA,) and سُقْفٌ [also] is a plural of سَقْفٌ. (Ham p. 227.) [In the Qur'an, 43:32,] Aboo-Jaafar read سَقْفًا مِنْ
فِضَّةٍ; with fet-h: (TA:) others read سُقُفًا: (S, TA:) in the former reading, it is a singular denoting a plural meaning; i. e., “ we would have made to the house of every one of them a سَقْف of silver. ” (TA.)
2.
[Hence,] The sky, or heaven: (S, K:) this is called سَقْفُ الأَرْضِ [the ceiling, or roof, of the earth]: of the masculine gender: occurring in the Qur'an, 21:33 and lii. 5. (TA.)
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See also أُسْقُفٌّ.