(a.), the wool of sheep ( s̲h̲āʾ ḍaʾn ). The hair sheared from other animals is named differently; wabar denotes camels’ hair, s̲h̲aʿr the wool of goats ( d̲j̲ubbat s̲h̲iʿār , a gown made from goats’ hair, see al-Suyūṭī, Ṭaylasān , no. 114). The radical ṣ-w-f is known from pre-Talmudic Hebrew in the sense of “bundle of wool” ( Tosafta ). Ṣūf is mentioned in several pre-Islamic contexts, but in the Ḳurʾān only once in the plural form ( aṣwāf ), in XVI, “82/80. Sheep breeding ( aṣwāf muʿbarāt al-ritāʿ , the thick wool of sheep pasturing freely, in al-Ṭabarī, iii, 1848 1. 3; cf. Naṣr b. Muzāḥim, Waḳʿat Ṣ…