Dictionary of The Holy Quran — Page 479
صرف صرف passed the night prostrated by the influence of the cup of wine. رَأَيْتُ شَجَرَهُمْ صَرْعَى : I saw their trees cut down and laid prostrate. فَتَرَى الْقَوْمَ فِيْهَا صَرْعَى : So that thou mightest have seen the people therein lying prostrate (69:8). صَرَفَ ]aor. يَصْرِقُ inf. noun صَرَفَهُ صَرْفٌ : He turned, sent or put him or it away or back from his or its way or course. صَرَفَ اللهُ عَنْكَ الأذى: May God avert from thee harm. صَرَفْتُ الْكَلامَ : I embellish the speech by adding to it and altering it صَرَفَهُ إِلَى كَذَا : He turned him or it to such a thing. الصَّرْقُ : The turning or sending or putting a thing away or back from its way or course; the averting or repelling of it therefrom or its shifting from one state or condition to another. صَرَفَ اللهُ قُلُوْبَهُمْ : Allah has turned away their hearts )9:127( إِذْ صَرَفْنَا إِلَيْكَ نَفَرًا مِّنَ الْجِنِّ : When We sent or turned towards thee a party of the Jinn )46:30( سَأَصْرِفُ عَنْ اياتِي : I shall turn away from My signs )7:147( فَمَا تَسْتَطِيْعُوْنَ صَرْفًا : So you cannot avert the punishment )25:20( صَرْفُ الدَّهْرِ : Mishaps and calamities of time; artifice or cunning فَمَا تَسْتَطِيْعُوْنَ صَرْفًا may also mean, so you cannot put in practice or use any artifice or cunning. صَرْفٌ also means repentance, excellence or superiority in goodness or value; the night. الصَّرْفَانِ signifies the night and the day. مَصْرُوفٌ : ) passive part) A thing averted. لَيْسَ مَصْرُوفًا عَنْهُمْ : It shall not be averted from them )11:9( مَصْرِفٌ : A place of turning away or back i. e. refuge. وَلَمْ يَجِدُوْا عَنْهَا مَصْرِفًا : They will find no way of escape or place of turning back )18:54( صَرَّفَ الشَّيْءَ : He employed the thing in more than one way. صَرَفَ الْكَلامَ : He derived one part of the speech from another. التَّصْرِيفُ )inf. noun) in its primary acceptation is like الصَّرْقُ in the primary acceptation of the latter, but generally relates to several objects or is used in an intensive sense. تصْرِيفُ الرياح signifies the turning of the winds from one state or condition to another or from one direction or course or way to another or the making of them to vary )2:165( تَصْرِيفُ الْآيَاتِ signifies the varying of the verses of the Qur'an by repeating them in different forms تَصْرِيفٌ also signifies the deriving of one word from another. وَصَرَّفْنَا الْآيَتِ : And We have varied the 479