طرف

طَرَفَ

To blink or move the eyelids while looking; to look at, see, or direct one's sight toward something.

Includes the verb used of the eye itself and of directing the sight with the eye.

• Lane · entry 11225

طَرَفَ

To strike, hurt, or injure someone's eye so that it sheds tears.

The object may be the eye itself; the cause can be a garment, object, grief, or weeping.

• Lane · entry 11225

الطَّرْف

A slap or blow delivered to the extremity of the eye, and by extension a striking upon the head.

• Lane · entry 11225

طَرَفَ البَصَرَ

To turn or draw the sight away or back from something.

Used especially with the sight as object or with a command to turn the gaze away.

• Lane · entry 11225

طَرَفَهُ

To withhold someone from another person or place by diverting or occupying him.

A business or occupation may be the cause of the withholding.

• Lane · entry 11225

طَرَفَهُ

To drive someone away.

• Lane · entry 11225

عَيْنٌ تَطْرِفُ

A blinking eye as a metonym for a living being; in the negative, the absence of a blinking eye means that none remain alive or that they have been slain.

An idiomatic and figurative use based on the visible blinking of a living eye.

• Lane · entry 11225

طَرِفَ

Of a camel, to graze the sides or outer portions of pasture, moving from one pasture to another rather than remaining with one.

Also applied to a she-camel that samples pastures successively.

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طَرُفَ

To be newly or recently acquired; to be new, fresh, or good in its freshness.

This is a verbal description of recent acquisition or freshness, distinct from the derived noun for a newly acquired thing.

• Lane · entry 11225

طَرِفٌ

Remote or extended in descent from an ancestor; in some descriptions, possessing a long line of ancestors.

The lexical tradition records contrasting applications concerning old descent and recently established nobility.

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طَرَّفَ

To attack or fight around the flank or outer part of an army and drive those on the side back toward the main body.

Also used of driving back the foremost or rearward members of a group upon the rest.

• Lane · entry 11226

طَرَّفَ

To dye or color the ends of the fingers.

The extremities of the fingers are the part treated.

• Lane · entry 11226
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طَرَّفَ

To make an extremity pointed, tapering, or slender.

Used of making a horse's ear pointed; figuratively, meanings or expressions may be made pointed or embellished.

• Lane · entry 11226

طَرَّفَ الشَّيْءَ

To choose or select a thing.

The choice is understood through the notion of taking what is at an outer or selected point.

• Lane · entry 11226

طَرَّفَ

Of a camel, to lose a tooth or teeth through extreme age.

Used of the effects of advanced age on the teeth.

• Lane · entry 11226

أَطْرَفَ

To close the eyelids.

• Lane · entry 11227

أَطْرَفَ الثَّوْبَ

To make ornamental, colored, or figured borders at the ends or sides of a garment.

The construction concerns the two ends or sides of the garment.

• Lane · entry 11227

أَطْرَفَ فُلَانًا

To give someone a novel, rare, or pleasing thing, especially something newly acquired or not previously given to that person.

The object may be a gift, property, or other valued novelty.

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أَطْرَفَهُ خَبَرًا

To bring or tell someone new information or tidings.

The newness of the report is part of the conventional construction.

• Lane · entry 11227

أَطْرَفَ بِهِ مَنْ حَوَالَيْهِ

To cause those around someone to wonder through something novel or strange.

The construction may also mean that the surrounding people acquired a novel piece of information through it.

• Lane · entry 11227

الإِطْرَاف

Numerous or distinguished ancestors, especially ancestors of note.

The meaning concerns ancestry and inherited distinction.

• Lane · entry 11227

أَطْرَفَ البَلَدُ

Of a country or land, to abound in the pasture called طَرِيفَة.

• Lane · entry 11227

تَطَرَّفَ

To become pointed, tapering, or slender at the extremity.

The form can describe a thing acquiring an extremity or pointed end.

• Lane · entry 11228

تَطَرَّفَ

To become or be at an extremity or side; to take the side of a thing.

The latter use is expressed by taking from or taking the side of something.

• Lane · entry 11228

تَطَرَّفَ مِنَ البَوْلِ

To go far aside from urine.

A conventional expression concerning the direction or placement of urination.

• Lane · entry 11228

تَطَرَّفَ

Of the sun, to approach setting.

A temporal extension of approaching an extremity.

• Lane · entry 11228

تَطَرَّفَ عَلَى القَوْمِ

To make a sudden or unexpected attack upon a people's territory or dwellings.

• Lane · entry 11228

تَطَرَّفَ الشَّيْءَ

To take something from its side or take its side portion.

• Lane · entry 11228

اِطَّرَفَ الشَّيْءَ

To purchase a thing new.

The form denotes acquiring something as a new purchase.

• Lane · entry 11229

اِسْتَطْرَفَهُ

To count, esteem, or regard something as new.

Used of discourse that a listener regards as novel.

• Lane · entry 11230

اِسْتَطْرَفَ الشَّيْءَ

To find, gain, or acquire something newly.

• Lane · entry 11230

اِسْتَطْرَفَتِ الرِّجَالَ

Of a woman, to choose new men rather than remain with one husband.

A figurative use modeled on the camel that samples one pasture after another.

• Lane · entry 11230

اِسْتَطْرَفَ المَرْتَعَ

Of camels, to choose or select pasture, especially to take its first or freshest part.

• Lane · entry 11230

الطَّرْف

A named star or pair of stars associated with the face of Leo and a lunar mansion.

Astronomical nomenclature; the exact stellar identification varies in the cited descriptions.

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أَطْرَاف

The fingers or fingertips.

The plural can function in the sense of a singular fingertip in some expressions.

• Lane · entry 11234

أَطْرَافُ العَذَارَى

A variety of long, slender grapes likened to the fingers of maidens.

A conventional name for a grape variety.

• Lane · entry 11234

ذُو الطَّرَفَيْنِ

A kind of black serpent said to strike with both its nose and its tail.

A zoological or folkloric designation.

• Lane · entry 11234

أَطْرَافُ الجَسَد

The extremities of an animal or body, including its fore and hind parts, limbs, hands or feet, and head.

The exact members included vary by expression and authority.

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أَحَدُ طَرَفَيْهِ

In an idiom about a sick person, one of the two terminal outcomes: recovery or death.

The two outcomes are conceived as the two ends of the illness.

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لَا يَمْلِكُ طَرَفَيْهِ

In idioms, the two bodily ends, especially the mouth and anus; related expressions may use the two ends for the tongue and sexual organ, or for the upper and lower halves of the body.

These are fixed figurative expressions, not a general anatomical definition of every occurrence of طَرَف.

• Lane · entry 11234

كَرِيمُ الطَّرَفَيْنِ

Noble or generous on both sides of one's parentage.

The two sides are the paternal and maternal lines; some related expressions extend the phrase to the father's and mother's lineage.

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أَطْرَاف

A person's close kin, including parents, siblings, paternal uncles, and relations whom one may not marry.

A figurative plural use based on the person's familial sides.

• Lane · entry 11234

أَطْرَافُ النَّاس

The lower orders of the people.

The cited lexical note regards this usage as probably post-classical.

• Lane · entry 11234

عَلَى طَرَف

Beside, aside, or apart; in related usage, on the part of someone.

These are prepositional and idiomatic constructions.

• Lane · entry 11234

لِلْأَمْرِ طَرَفَانِ

An affair has two possible ways or alternatives, either of which may be chosen.

The alternatives are conceived as two ends or sides of the affair.

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أَطْرَافُ الحَدِيث

Choice or selected subjects of discourse; in some usage, friendly colloquies with indirect expressions and allusions.

• Lane · entry 11234

طَرَف

Flesh or meat.

A specialized nominal meaning.

• Lane · entry 11234

طِرْف

A choice, generous, or handsome horse, especially one admired for its beauty, breeding, or form.

The word can describe a recently acquired horse and a horse with notably long legs or neck and pointed ears.

• Lane · entry 11233

طِرْف

A generous or noble young man or man.

The adjective may concern general generosity or noble ancestry.

• Lane · entry 11233

طِرْف

Recent or newly established nobility of lineage.

This is a specialized and sometimes contrasting lineage use.

• Lane · entry 11233
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طِرْفُ الحَدِيث

A woman whose discourse is good and esteemed as novel by those who hear it.

A fixed descriptive expression.

• Lane · entry 11233

طِرْف

One desirous of possessing everything that one sees.

An adjectival use describing acquisitive desire.

• Lane · entry 11233

طِرْف

Produce of the earth still enclosed in its calyxes.

• Lane · entry 11233

طَرْفَة

A wink or twinkling of the eye, namely the closing or movement of an eyelid.

Also used in comparisons for extreme speed or a very brief interval.

• Lane · entry 11236

طَرْفَة

A red spot of blood in the eye caused by a blow or another cause.

• Lane · entry 11236

طَرْفَة

A brand or hot-iron mark consisting only of a line and lacking lateral portions.

• Lane · entry 11236

طُرْفَة

An injury or hurt of the eye that causes it to shed tears.

• Lane · entry 11237

طُرْفَة

A newly acquired, rare, strange, or pleasing thing, especially a welcome or novel gift.

The plural refers to such rare and pleasing gifts or novelties.

• Lane · entry 11237

طَرَفَة

A single tree of the species called طَرْفَاء.

• Lane · entry 11238

طُرْفَى

Remoteness in lineage from the chief or oldest ancestor.

It is contrasted with قُعْدَى, which denotes nearer descent.

• Lane · entry 11239

طَرْفَاء

A tamarisk-like tree or collective kind of tree, including the plant commonly identified as tamarisk.

The lexical accounts differ over whether the word is singular, plural, or a collective noun.

• Lane · entry 11240

طَرْفَاء

A place where طَرَفَة trees grow.

• Lane · entry 11240

طِرَاف

The portion cut from the extremities of corn or other seed-produce.

• Lane · entry 11241

طِرَاف

A desert tent made of skin or leather.

• Lane · entry 11241

طَرِيفٌ

Property newly acquired, as opposed to inherited property; also a thing that is new, fresh, strange, rare, varied in color, or pleasing.

A nominal use of طَرِيفٌ and related forms for something recently acquired or newly presented, contrasted with تَلِيدٌ, تَالِدٌ, or تِلَادٌ; the associated descriptions of strangeness, freshness, variety, and pleasing novelty are included in this branch.

• Lane · entry 11242

طَرِيفَة

A mature, white and dry, or otherwise choice kind of herbage and pasture.

The word can refer to specified grasses or to the first and best pasture selected by cattle.

• Lane · entry 11243

طَرِيفَة

Anything new, recent, fresh, or choice; by extension, a choice article or subject.

This nominal use is distinct from the specialized pasture plant.

• Lane · entry 11243

طَوَارِفُ الخِبَاء

The side portions of a tent raised to permit looking out; in another account, rings and cords attached to its skirts.

• Lane · entry 11245

طَارِفَةُ عَيْن

A large quantity of property or cattle, conceived as something that overwhelms or dazzles the eye.

An idiomatic, figurative expression.

• Lane · entry 11245

طَوَارِفُ القَرَائِح

Things newly originated by later inventive or creative faculties.

The expression is used of novel intellectual productions.

• Lane · entry 11245

سِبَاعٌ طَوَارِف

Beasts of prey that seize or carry off the animals they hunt.

• Lane · entry 11245

المُطْرِفَان

In a poetic description, two verses that are strange or excellent, ornamented at their two extremities, or beautified in their first and last feet.

The transmitted wording and interpretation vary.

• Lane · entry 11251

مِطْرَف

A square garment or cloak of fine cloth, especially khazz, with ornamental, colored, or figured borders.

The borders may be at the two ends or sides.

• Lane · entry 11252

مَطَارِف

Clouds, by comparison with bordered garments.

A figurative plural use.

• Lane · entry 11252

مُطَرَّف

An animal marked with contrasting color at its extremities, such as a horse white at the head and tail or a sheep colored at the ends of its tail or ears.

The exact color pattern varies by animal and account.

• Lane · entry 11253

مُطَرَّف

Of a horse, repeatedly improved in generosity through descent from generous sires and dams.

This interpretation belongs to a disputed poetic reading.

• Lane · entry 11253

مُطَرِّف

A man or horse that fights around the flank or outer part of an army or hostile company and repels those on the side.

The related form and the transmitted poetic reading vary.

• Lane · entry 11254

مَطْرُوف

Looked at exclusively of others; the person or thing singled out for someone's gaze.

A passive-participial use of the looking verb.

• Lane · entry 11256

عَيْنٌ مَطْرُوفَة

An eye whose lids move in looking, or an eye struck or hurt so that it sheds tears.

The context determines whether the blinking or injured-eye sense is intended.

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مَطْرُوفَة

A woman described as having a languishing or wandering gaze, or as looking at men rather than remaining devoted to one husband.

The authorities preserve several explanations, including a metaphor of an injured or languid eye.

• Lane · entry 11256

أَرْضٌ مَطْرُوفَة

Land abounding in the herbage called طَرِيفَة.

• Lane · entry 11256

مُطَّرَف

A newly purchased camel, especially one bought from another part of the country and still longing for its accustomed place.

• Lane · entry 11257

مُتَطَرِّف

A man who does not remain constant in an affair or companionship.

The transmitted text may intend a woman or wife rather than a general affair.

• Lane · entry 11258

مُسْتَطْرَفُ الأَيَّام

The first or beginning part of the days.

A fixed temporal expression.

• Lane · entry 11259