ثَقْفٌ
1.
Skilled, or skilful; and light, active, quick, or sharp; and intelligent, or sagacious; as also
ثَقِفٌ and
ثَقُفٌ (S, K) and
ثَقِيفٌ and
ثِقِّيفٌ: (K:) or
ثَقِيفٌ signifies quick in understanding a narration: (Msb:) and
ثَقَافٌ, applied to a woman, intelligent, or sagacious. (K.) You say also رَجُلٌ ثَقْفٌ لَقْفٌ and لَقِفٌ
ثَقِفٌ, meaning A man who is a relater, a poet, an archer or a caster of the spear &c.: (Lth, JK, TA:) or light, active, quick, or sharp, and skilful: (S and K in article لقف:) or quick in understanding what is said to him; and in taking what is thrown to him: or skilful in his art, or handicraft: (TA in that article:) or a man who keeps, preserves, or guards, and manages, or orders, well, that which he possesses: (ISk, TA:) and Lh adds لَقِيفٌ
ثَقِيفٌ: and Ibn-'Abbád, لِقِّيفٌ
ثِقِّيفٌ. (TA.)
2.
A man quick in taking, or seizing, his opponents, or adversaries. (Ksh ii. 187.)