عطف

عَطَفَ

To incline or bend; to become inclined or bent, including an animal bending its neck.

Intransitive usage; the bending may be physical or directional.

• Lane · entry 3735

عَطَفَ عَلَيْهِ

To incline favorably toward someone; to show affection, kindness, mercy, pity, or compassion.

With عَلَى; of a she-camel toward her young, it may include yielding her milk.

• Lane · entry 3735

عَطَفَ عَلَيْهِ

To turn or return against someone; to charge or attack.

A hostile directional construction, especially in battle or in returning against an opponent.

• Lane · entry 3735

عَطَفَ

To turn away or back; with عَنْ, to be averse, disaffected, or unkind toward someone.

The meaning reverses the favorable inclination associated with عَطَفَ عَلَيْهِ.

• Lane · entry 3735

عَطَفَ

To incline, bend, double, or fold something.

Transitive physical usage, applied to objects such as a stick, wood, a camel's head, or a cushion.

• Lane · entry 3735

عَطَفَ

To cause someone or something to incline favorably toward another; to cause a she-camel to affect her young.

Causative transitive usage; the camel construction concerns inducing attachment so that milk is yielded.

• Lane · entry 3735

عَطْفُ المُدْمَجِ

The turning or shuffling of a gaming arrow.

A technical term associated with the gaming arrow.

• Lane · entry 3735

عَطَّفَ

To put a garment over another's shoulders as an عِطَاف or cloak.

Form II clothing usage.

• Lane · entry 3736

تَعَطَّفَ

To make one's body bend or curve.

A bodily movement comparable to swaying or bending the body.

• Lane · entry 3737

تَعَطَّفَ بِالعِطَافِ

To clothe oneself with a cloak or wrap; figuratively, to be clothed or invested with might.

The literal construction takes بِـ with the garment; the figurative usage applies the clothing image to power.

• Lane · entry 3737

تَعَاطَفُوا

To incline favorably toward one another; to show mutual affection, kindness, or compassion.

Reciprocal Form VI usage.

• Lane · entry 3738

تَعَاطَفَ

To sway, move the head from side to side, or incline from side to side while walking.

The usage may describe an elegant, proud, or self-conscious gait.

• Lane · entry 3738

اِعْتَطَفَ

To hang a bow or sword from oneself by placing its strap around the neck or shoulder.

Form VIII usage with a weapon or bow.

• Lane · entry 3740

اِسْتَعْطَفَ

To ask someone to incline favorably toward one; to seek affection, goodwill, mercy, or reconciliation.

Form X request or solicitation construction.

• Lane · entry 3741

عِطْف

Pliant, compliant, or easygoing in disposition.

A figurative use based on the body's side, as in the idiom أَلْيَنُ عِطْفًا; it can describe persons and, in related usage, a horse.

• Lane · entry 3743

عِطْف

The armpit or shoulder.

An anatomical specialization distinct from the broader bodily-side sense.

• Lane · entry 3743

عِطْف

The curved part at either extremity of a bow.

The two curved extremities are called its عِطْفَان.

• Lane · entry 3743

عِطْف

A bend or curved part of a street, road, or valley; by extension, a side or deviation from the beaten track.

Used spatially of a route or road.

• Lane · entry 3743

عَطَف

The length of the edges of the eyelids and an upward bending of them.

A rare and disputed usage; the cited discussion reports that the form غَطَف may be the better-established reading.

• Lane · entry 3744

عَطْفَة

An inclination or act of inclining.

Used as a verbal noun or noun of action.

• Lane · entry 3745

عَطْفَة

A bead used by women to captivate men.

A specialized lexical usage.

• Lane · entry 3745

عَطْفَة

A tree or twining plant to which a grapevine clings; it is also identified in one account with lablab.

A botanical usage connected with bending or twining around trees.

• Lane · entry 3745

عِطْفَة

The hanging extremities or tendrils of a vine.

Botanical usage.

• Lane · entry 3746

عِطْفَة

A plant identified as عُصْبَة.

A specialized plant name.

• Lane · entry 3746

عَطَفَة

A leafless twining desert plant, reportedly fed upon by wild cattle and harmful to them; its roots were also associated with a purported love charm.

The account includes reported or folkloric claims about the plant's use.

• Lane · entry 3747

عَطْفَاء

Having a twisted horn, said of a sheep or goat.

An epithet for an animal.

• Lane · entry 3749

عِطَاف

A cloak, mantle, shoulder garment, or wrap worn like a ridāʾ.

The garment is associated with falling against the two sides of the neck.

• Lane · entry 3750

عِطَاف

A sword.

A transferred designation based on the sword's being carried like a shoulder garment; it occurs in expressions about placing the sword at the side or beneath the armpit.

• Lane · entry 3750

عَطُوف

A gaming arrow that inclines toward or returns among the other arrows, is repeatedly drawn, or turns aside from their usual places.

Technical terminology of the game of maysir; variant explanations describe its repeated return or solitary course among the arrows.

• Lane · entry 3751

عَطُوف

Very inclined to favor, affectionate, kind, merciful, or compassionate; a benefactor or protector. It can also describe an affectionate woman or a she-camel attached to a substitute young.

An intensive adjective; the camel usage concerns attachment to a stuffed skin after the loss of its young.

• Lane · entry 3751

عَطُوف

A snare, trap, or net containing a bent or inclined piece of wood.

A specialized implement name, also called غَاطُوف.

• Lane · entry 3751

عَطِيف

A gentle woman without pride, submissive or obedient in disposition.

The cited usage is specifically an epithet for a woman.

• Lane · entry 3752

عَطِيفَة

A bow.

The plural is given as عَطَائِف.

• Lane · entry 3754

عَطَّاف

One who returns to the fight after fleeing or wheeling away.

The cited plural عَطَّافُونَ is an epithet for returning combatants.

• Lane · entry 3755

عَاطِف

A gazelle bending its neck when lying down; also a sheep or goat bending its neck without illness.

An animal epithet describing the posture of the neck.

• Lane · entry 3756

عَاطِف

The horse that arrives sixth, or according to another report fourth, in a race.

The reported ranking and attribution are variant and uncertain.

• Lane · entry 3756

عَاطِفَة

A bias or cause of inclination.

A figurative noun of agency: something that inclines a person toward another.

• Lane · entry 3757

عَاطِفَة

A relationship or tie of kinship.

Used substantivally for the relationship itself, synonymous with kinship or the womb-tie.

• Lane · entry 3757

عَاطِفَة

Affection, kindness, mercy, pity, or compassion.

A figurative emotional usage.

• Lane · entry 3757

مَعْطِف

A place of bending or flexure; a bodily fold or crease, including a fold of a garment.

The plural may refer to bodily places where sweat collects.

• Lane · entry 3759

مُعَطَّفَة

A bow whose curved extremity is bent strongly toward the other.

The intensive pattern may describe one bow or multiple bent bows.

• Lane · entry 3761

مُعَطَّفَة

Milch camels made to incline toward a young one so that they yield milk copiously.

A specialized passive-participial usage concerning several she-camels attached to one young.

• Lane · entry 3761

مَعْطُوف

Inclined or bent.

Applied especially to a bow whose curved extremity is strongly bent toward the other.

• Lane · entry 3762

مُنْعَطَف

A place of inclining or bending, such as a bend in a valley.

A place noun used of geographical features and routes.

• Lane · entry 3763