צְרִיף, (צָרַף) [narrow,] cone-shaped roof of reeds &c.; cone-shaped hut (v. Sm. Ant.³, Engl, ed., s. v. Tugurium). Succ. I, 11 העושה … כמין צ׳ if a man makes his Succah in the shape of a cone (the walls forming the roof); Tosef. ib. I, 10. Sabb. 56ᵇ אותו היום … נבנה צ׳ וכ׳ on the day, when Jeroboam introduced two golden calves …, a hut was built (on the site of Rome), and this grew to be Greek Italy; a. e.—Pl. צְרִיפִים, צְרִיפִין. Y. Ab. Zar. I, 39ᶜ יום … שני צ׳ ברומי on the day when Jeroboam …, Remus and Romulus came and built two huts on the site of Rome; Cant. R. to I, 6; Esth. R. to I, 9. Erub. 55ᵇ יושבי צ׳ כיושבי קברים dwellers in cots are like dwellers in graves. Ex. R. s. 20 הרס את הצ׳ he destroyed the shepherd’s cots; a. e.—גַגּוֹת צְרִיפִין pr. n. pl. Gaggoth Ts’rifin (Cottage Roofs). Men. X, 2. Ib. 64ᵇ; Y. Shek. V, 48ᵈ top פעם אחת אית אתר דמתקרי ג׳ צ׳ או צ׳ ג׳ … it once occurred during a drought …, when they did not know whence to get the ʿOmer, that a mute was there, and he put one hand on (pointed to) גגות (flat roofs) and one on צריפין (cone-shaped roofs); they brought him before Pethahiah (Mordecai), who asked, Is there a place called G. Ts. or Ts. G.?