صلف1 صَلِفَ السَّحَابُ, [aor. ـَ inf. n. صَلَفٌ, The clouds had in them no water: (M:) or صَلِفَتِ السَّحَابَةُ the cloud had little water. (A, TA. [It is implied in the TA that this is tropical; but I doubt its being so.]) See also its part. n., صَلِفٌ. b2:  صَلِفَ said of a man's حَرْث [or seed-produce], It did not increase, or multiply, or become plentiful or abundant. (TA.) b3:  صَلَفٌ as a quality of طَعَام [or wheat] signifies Its having little increase (نُزْل, S, or نَزَل, L, or نَمَآء and بَرَكَة, K) and little goodness. (L, TA: said in the latter to be tropical.) b4:  [Hence, app., or from the verb as used in the sense expl. in the next sentence below,] مَنْ يَبْغِ, فِى الدِّينِ يَصْلَفْ, (S, M, Meyd, &c.,) a prov., (S, Meyd, O, K,) relating to the holding fast to religion, (S,) or used in urging to the mixing in social intercourse with the holding fast to religion, (O, K,) or, accord. to IAth, a trad., (TA,) i. e., accord. to As, He who exceeds the right bounds in religion (Meyd) will not be in favour with men, or beloved by them; (S, Meyd;) or will have little increase therein: (M:) or he who finds fault with men in respect of religion, (O, K,) and regards it as an excellence [that he possesses] above them, will have little goodness in their estimation, and (O) will not be in favour with them, or beloved by them: (O, K:) or the meaning is, he who seeks worldly good by means of religion, his share of the former will be little: (Meyd:) or he who seeks, in respect of religion, more than he has had revealed to him, his share will be little. (IAth.) b5:  صَلِفَتْ, (S, M, O,) aor. ـَ (S, O,) inf. n. صَلَفٌ, said of a woman, means She was not in favour with, or was not beloved by, (S, M, O, K, *) her husband, (S, O, K,) or him by whom she was supported; (M;) and was hated by him. (S, O.) b6:  صَلَفٌ, (O, K,) in a man and in a woman, (O,) signifies also The saying that which one's  companion dislikes, or hates. (O, K.) b7:  And, (O, K,) likewise in a man and in a woman, (O,) (assumed tropical:)  The commending, or praising, oneself for, or the boasting of, or glorying in, that which one does not possess: (O, K:) or, (K,) as Kh asserts, (S, O,) the overpassing the due limits in الظَّرْف [here meaning elegance of mind, manners, address, speech, person, attire, and the like], (S, M, O, K,) and in excellence in knowledge or courage or other qualities, (TA,) and arrogating to oneself more than is due, through pride: (S, O, K:) but some say that this is post-classical: (M, TA:) [see an ex. voce آفَةٌ, in art. اوف; mentioned here in the TA as occurring in a trad.:] one says, of a man, صَلِفَ, (M, MA,) inf. n. صَلَفٌ, (M,) meaning (assumed tropical:)  He commended, or praised, himself [&c.]; (MA;) and ↓ تصلّف, (S, MA, O,) meaning the same; (MA;) or this latter means تَكَلَّفَ الصَّلَفَ, (K, TA,) i. e. [he affected the overpassing of the due limits in الظَّرْف (meaning as expl. above); or he took upon himself as a task] the arrogating to himself more than was due, through pride: (TA:) [you say, تصلّف بِمَا لَيْسَ عِنْدَهُ (assumed tropical:)  He commended, or praised, himself for, or he boasted of, or gloried in, that which he did not possess:] the epithet from the former verb is ↓ صَلِفٌ, (Az, S, M, O, K,) applied to a man, (Az, S, M, O,) and صَلِفَةٌ applied to a woman; (M;) and the pl. of صَلِفٌ is صَلَافَى (Az, M, K) and صُلَفَآءُ and صَلِفُونَ: (Az, O, K:) it is said to be from صَلِفٌ applied  to a vessel, accord. to IAar as meaning “ that takes little water; ” but rather, as others say, as meaning “ thick and heavy: ” the vulgar misapply it [app. by using it in the sense assigned to it by IAar]. (TA.) A2:  See also the next paragraph.4 اصلف i. q. قَلَّ خَيْرُهُ [His good things became few; or his wealth, or his goodness or beneficence, became little]: (IAar, O, K:) and (TA) so ↓ تصلّف. (M, TA.) b2:  And His soul, or spirit, (رُوحُهُ,) became heavy; (IAar, O, K;) and he became oppressed as though by the nightmare. (TK.) b3:  And He became one whose wife was not in favour with him, or not beloved by him. (M.) A2:  اصلفها He hated her, namely, his wife; (M;) as also ↓ صَلِفَهَا, (so in a copy of the M,) or صَلَفَهَا, aor. ـِ (so in the L and TA;) the latter mentioned by IAmb: (L,TA:) or اصلفهُ he hated him, namely, another man. (Ibn-'Abbád, O, K.) b2:  And اصلف نِسَآءَهُ He divorced his wives: and he made their share of his favours to be small. (A, TA.) b3:  And one says to a woman, أَصْلَفَ اللّٰهُ رُفْغَكِ, meaning May God make thee [or thy فَرْج or the like] to be hated by thy husband. (EshSheybánee, S, O, K.) A3:  اصلف القَوْمُ, (thus in the O, on the authority of Ibn-'Abbád, [like أَحْزَنَ, and its contr. أَسْهَلَ, &c.,]) or ↓ تصلّف, (thus in the K, [but the former is preferable on the ground of analogy, and the latter I think a mistake,]) The people, or party, became in the [kind of tract termed] صَلْفَآء. (O, K.) 5 تصلّف: see 4, first sentence. b2:  And see 1, latter part. b3:  Also He behaved in a loving, or an affectionate, and a blandishing, or coaxing, manner. (O, K.) b4:  And, said of a camel, He loathed, or turned away with disgust from, the [pasturage termed] خُلَّة, and inclined to the حَمْض. (O, K.) A2:  See also 4, last sentence.الصَّلْفُ The branches of the heart of the palmtree that are next belong the قِلَبَة: [in the CK, خَواءٌ فى قُلْبِ النَّخْلَةِ is erroneously put for خَوَافِى; قلبِ النّخلةِ; and the same mistake was originally made in my MS. copy of the K:] n. un. with ة. (IAar, O, K, * TA. [See خَافِيَةٌ, last sentence.]صَلِفٌ, applied to clouds (سَحَاب, S, M, O, K), Containing no water: (M:) or having little water and much thunder. (S, O, K. [Said in the TA to be tropical; but I doubt its being so.]) It is said in a prov., رُبَّ صَلِفٍ تَحْتَ الرَّاعِدَةِ, (S, and so in some copies of the K,) or ↓ رُبَّ صَلَفٍ, (M, O, and so in some copies of the K, [with an inf. n. in the place of an epithet,]) i. e. Many a cloud is there, [or many clouds are there, lacking rain, or] having much thunder with little rain, [beneath that which thunders:] (A'Obeyd, O:) applied to the wealthy niggard: (A'Obeyd, O, K:) or to him who threatens, and does not perform what he threatens: (S, O, K:) or to him who commends himself much, (M, O, K,) and is loquacious, (M, O,) but is destitute of good. (M, O, K.) b2:  And A vessel that takes little water: (IAar, S, M, O, K:) a small vessel: one that leaks; that will not hold water. (IAar, TA. [This, also, is said in the TA to be tropical.]) And A heavy (K, TA) and thick (TA) vessel. (K, TA.) b3:  Also High ground (قُفّ), or a hard plain, that produces no plants or herbage: (TA:) and so the fem., with ة, applied to land (أَرْض). (M, TA.) b4:  Wheat (طَعَام) having little increase (قَلِيلُ النَّزَلِ and الرَّيْعِ): (M:) or tasteless: (M, O, K:) and ↓ صَلِيفٌ signifies the same, in the former sense or in the latter. (M.) b5:  And [A man] heavy in soul, or spirit; syn. ثَقِيلُ الرُّوحِ. (TA. [See 4, second sentence, which shows that مُصْلِفٌ has this meaning: but the epithet thus expl. in the TA is there said to be like كَتِفٌ.]) b6:  And صَلِفَةٌ signifies A woman not in favour with, or not beloved by, (S, M, O, K,) her husband, (S, O, K,) or him by whom she is supported; (M;) and hated by him: (S, O:) pl. صَلَائِفُ, (S, M, O, K,) which is extr. [in respect of analogy], (M,) and صَلِفَاتٌ. (O, K.) b7:  See also 1, near the end.صَلْفَآء and صِلْفَآء, and each with ة: see أَصْلَفُ, in five places.صَلِيفٌ The side (عُرْض [in one of my copies of the S عَرْض, and in the other copy عِرق,]) of the neck; the two being called صَلِيفَانِ; (S, O, K;) [i. e.] الصَّلِيفَانِ signifies the two sides of the neck (جَانِبَا العُنُقِ): or this signifies what are between the لِيت [or part beneath the earring] and the قَصَرَة [or base of the neck, on the two sides]: (M:) or the two heads of the vertebra that is next to the head, in the two sides of the neck. (Az, O, * K, * TA.) In this last explanation, in the copies of the K, رأس is put for رأسا. (TA. [And in some copies of the K, شِقَّيْهِمَا is there erroneously put for شِقَّيْهَا, which, as is said in the TA, refers to the neck.]) أَخَذَ بِصَلِيفِهِ and ↓ بِصَلِيفَتِهِ mean, accord. to As, He took hold of the back of his neck: (O, TA:) and one says also, ↓ أَخَذَهُ بِصَلِيفَتِهِ meaning He took him, or it, altogether. (TA. [But I think it not improbable that ↓ بِصَلِيفَتِهِ in these two instances may be a mistranscription for بِصَلِيفَيْهِ.]) b2:  الصَّلِيفَانِ signifies also Two staves, or pieces of wood, which are placed across [horizontally] upon the [camel's saddle called] غَبِيط, by means of which the مَحَامِل [pl. of مَحْمِلٌ, q. v.,] are  bound. (S, O, K.) And (TA) صَلِيفَا الإِكَافِ signifies The two [similar] pieces of wood that are bound upon the upper part of the [saddle called]إِكَاف. (M, TA.) A2:  See also صَلِفٌ, latter half.صَلِيفَةٌ: see صَلِيفٌ, in three places.صَلَنْفًى and صَلَنْفَآءٌ A loquacious man. (M, TA.) أَصْلَفُ Hard, applied to a place; and so [the fem.] ↓ صَلْفَآءُ applied to land (أَرْض): (S, O:) or both signify hard ground (M, K) containing  stones; (M;) or hard and rugged ground; (As, O;) and the pl. is صَلَافٍ, (M, O, K, * [in the last, erroneously, صَلَافِى, and in the O, correctly, الصَّلَافِى, being made determinate,]) thus pluralized in the same manner as صَحْرَآء because the quality of a subst. is predominant therein, (M,) and [ for the same reason] أَصَالِفُ also; (O, K;) [the former pl. of صلفآء, and the latter of ا] or ↓ صَلْفَآء (Ibn-'Abbád, O, K) and ↓ صِلْفَآء, [each, app., with tenween, the latter because of the measure فِعْلَآء, and each because receiving the affix ة, for it is added,] and likewise ↓ صَلْفَآءَةٌ (K) and ↓ صِلْفَآءَةٌ, (Ibn-'Abbád, O, K,) rugged, hard ground: (K:) or a smooth rock, or a hard, smooth, bare rock, even with the ground. (Ibn-'Abbád, O, K.) مُصْلِفٌ A man whose wife is not in favour with him or not beloved by him. (IAar, M, O, K.)