طرف

Er-Rāghib: it is used for the act of looking, because the moving of the eyelid always goes with that act.

Synonym أَبْصَرْتُهُ.

Qur'an 14:44; that is, their look will not be withdrawn by them from what they look at.

Qur'an 27:40; in the same way, before your look at a thing reverts to you, or is withdrawn from it. According to Fr, the meaning is: before a thing shall be brought to you from the extent of your vision; or, as some say, in the time in which you open your eye and then close it; or in the time in which one reaches the extent of your vision.

That is, he contracted his eyelids over the main part of his eye and looked with the rest of it, out of shyness or fear.

Said of a woman who does not keep constantly to one man. [See مَطْرُوفَةٌ.]

Said of a she-camel such as is termed طَرِفَةٌ.

In the K طَرَفَ عَيْنَهُ. The thing may be a garment or something else. In the CK شَىْءٌ is put for بِشَىْءٍ.

Another explanation of this is given at the beginning of the article.

Ziyād said this in a خُطْبَة.

One also says طرّفهُ in the same sense.

As though a طَرْفَة [or red spot of blood], or a stick or the like, had hurt her eye.

Then it came to be used for striking upon the head.

Hence the saying of a poet, ʿAmr Ibn-Abee-Rabeeʿah, or a young woman of the Anṣār: [You, by God, are one who wearies: the nearer turns you away, or back, from the older]

. So in the S, but the right reading is عَنِ الأَقْدَمِ, since the next verse ends with تَصْرِمِى.

The meaning is that he turns your sight away from the older: that is, you take the new and forget the old.

The same verb, with the same maṣdar: he was such as is termed طَرِيفٌ [and طَرِفٌ], meaning the opposite of قُعْدُد.

According to El-Mufaḍḍal, تَطْرِيفٌ is a man's repelling another man away from the hindmost of his companions.

For another meaning, from الطَّرَفُ, see 4.

Said of a woman. The ends are أَطْرَاف, and they are dyed with حِنَّآء.

Khālid Ibn-Ṣafwān said this: as though adorned with شُرَف, plural of شُرْفَةٌ. It is mentioned immediately after the matter just above.

From طَرَفٌ, meaning “anything chosen or choice”. Also تطرّفهُ in the same sense.

Said of a camel.

It is equivalent to جَآءَ بِطُرْفَةٍ. It also means he brought a thing that was strange, or extraordinary, and approved, or thought good; and he brought new information or news.

Also بِخَبَرٍ.

A phrase used by El-Ḥareeree. The piece of information is صَارُوا بِسَبَبِهِ ذَوِى طُرْفَةٍ, and they said مَا أَطْرَفَهُ [how novel and strange it is!], out of wonder at it; so the verb is intransitive and من is its agent. Or it may mean: he made those who were around him wonder at it.

Occurs in a tradition about the punishment of the grave.

تطرّفت is said of a she-camel: see near the end of 1.

Said of the sun: it came near to setting.

See also 2, the last meaning but one.

Said of a woman who does not keep constantly to one husband; she who does this is likened to the she-camel termed طَرِفَةٌ, which pastures on the extremities, or sides, of the pasturage, and tastes, and does not keep constantly to one pasturage. See also the last quarter of 1.

Said of camels. See also 2, the last meaning but one.

They precede الجَبْهَةُ, and are so called because they are regarded as the two eyes of Leo. They are often called الطَّرْفَةُ.

The طَرْف of Leo, consisting of two small stars in front of الجَبْهَة, like the فَرْقَدَانِ but weaker in light and somewhat oblique; the Ninth Mansion of the Moon, as Kzw says in describing that Mansion. Or the star, apparently lambda, in the face of Leo, together with the one outside it, apparently alpha, on the figure of Cancer. Or the bright star alpha on the hinder, southern leg, or claw, of Cancer.

See مَنَازِلُ القَمَرِ in art. نزل.

Generous, as an adjective applied to a young man or to a man; also طَرَفٌ. Or a man generous in respect of his male and his female ancestors. Plural أَطْرَافٌ.

When applied to other than man, one of its plurals is طُرُوفٌ.

See also طَرَفٌ, latter half.

With kesr; in the CK, wrongly, طَرْفٌ. It is as though it were a contraction of طَرِفٌ.

With kesr; in the CK طَرْف. Everyone who has heard it thinks it new.

See also طَرِفٌ, in two places.

And see طَرِيفٌ.

Az says that the plural is used in the sense of the singular in this example cited by Fr: [they show an elegant finger like a fruit of the kind of tree called عَنَم]

. That is why the poet says عَمَنَه, which is an ism waḥda. But I think it much more reasonable, and especially as the verb is plural, to take the ه in this case as the ه of pausation — for an example of which see حِينٌ — and so to render the saying: they show elegant fingers like fruits of the عَنَم.

In this sense it has no singular unless it is used as a prefixed noun, as in the saying that follows.

Said in a tradition about Abraham, when he was a little child; meaning that he used to suck his fingers and find in them what nourished him.

Or, as in the L, black and long, resembling acorns, likened to the fingers of virgins dyed with حِنَّآء, because of their length; and its bunch is about a cubit long.

Or the serpent called أَسْوَد, having two stings, one in its nose and the other in its tail, striking with both, so it is said, and not letting the one it strikes linger, but killing at once.

Also البَدَنِ in this sense.

Or, as in the L, أَطْرَافٌ is the plural of طَرَفٌ as synonymous with شَوَاةٌ, the ism waḥda of شَوًى.

Said in a tradition of the Prophet, of a time when any one of his family had a complaint. The two limits mean recovery or death, because these are the two ways in which the case of a sick person ends.

The dual has various other meanings assigned to it as well, all derived from the first meaning given above.

Said of one who has drunk medicine or become intoxicated.

That is, the tongue and the فَرْج.

Or the meaning is, as some say, which of his two halves is the longer, the lower or the upper; or the lineage of his father or that of his mother in respect of nobility, that is, which of his two parents is the nobler: so says Fr.

In the CK يُدْرَى. The two extremities are his ذَكَر and his tongue; hence طَرَفٌ is used to mean the tongue.

It also means noble, or exalted, men.

One of them is termed طَرَفٌ or طِرْفٌ; see the latter of these words.

Qur'an 13:41, with a like phrase at 21:45. As some explain it, the meaning is the death of its learned men; or, as some say, the meaning is cutting it short of its inhabitants and its fruits, that is, the death of its inhabitants and the lessening of its fruits; or it means cutting off its sides, or districts, one by one. Ibn-ʿArafeh says the meaning is that we lay open by conquest, to the Prophet, the country around Mekkeh.

I believe this to be post-classical.

In the Qur'an 11:116; equivalent to غُدْوَةً وَعَشِيَّةً. By the first is meant daybreak, and by the second noon and the عَصْر, or the عَصْر only.

In the Qur'an 20:130. Or at noon and the عَصْر, so says Zj; or, according to IAar, in the hours of the day; Abu-l-ʿAbbās says that it means طَرَفَىِ النَّهَارِ.

It often occurs in this sense, like على جَانِبٍ and على نَاحِيَةٍ; and in the same way the Persians say بَرْ طَرَفْ.

It is often used in this sense, but is perhaps post-classical.

As though it had two ends, or two sides. See صَرْعٌ.

See art. بوح.

Plural أَطْرَافٌ.

Also طَرَائِفُ الحَدِيثِ.

So says ISd. This is likewise a meaning of الطِّرَافُ and of السِّبَابُ; the latter, which properly means “mutual reviling”, is given in the K as an explanation of the former.

Also flesh, or flesh-meat; synonym لَحْمٌ.

And طِرْف, thus according to the K, though by rule it should be طَرِفٌ as above: a man who does not keep constantly to the company of one person, out of weariness.

That is, تَسْتَطْرِفُ الرِّجَالَ; she does not keep constantly to a husband, being likened to the she-camel termed طَرِفَةٌ.

طَرِفٌ seems also to have the opposite meaning: one whose nobility is recent; and the like is said of قُعْدُدٌ, that it has two opposite meanings. See طِرْفٌ.

Also a red spot of blood in the eye, caused by a blow or something else.

And a brand, or mark made with a hot iron, that has no أَطْرَاف [or sides, or lateral portions], being only a line.

Also a place where the طَرَفَة grows.

That is, عَنْ شَرَفٍ.

See also طَرِيفٌ.

And see طَرَفٌ, the last sentence but one.

Also, the first of these, a thing that is good [and recent or new or fresh]; what is strange, or rare, and coloured, or of various colours, or pleasing to the eye, among fruits and other things.

The Arabic is مِمَّا يستطرف بِهِ, in which يستطرف is clearly a miscopying for يُطْرَفُ, that is, of such things as are given as طُرَف (plural of طُرْفَة), meaning rare and pleasing gifts.

See also طَرِفٌ, latter part, in three places.

As a noun from طَرِيفٌ, made such by the affix ة, it means anything new, recent, or fresh; and anything choice. Plural طَرَائِفُ. See also طُرْفَةٌ.

See رَفٌّ.

And طَرَائِفُ الحَدِيثِ: see طَرَفٌ, the last sentence but one.

Said of a man; the phrase seems to come from that.

Also, apparently, a thing that causes a twinkling, or winking, of the eye.

In this phrase طَوَارِفُ is the plural of طَارِفَةٌ, from طَارِفٌ, meaning property “newly acquired”; the sense is مَا أَحْدَثَتْهُ القَرَائِحُ المُتَأَخِّرَةُ.

And see also طَرِيفٌ.

A phrase used by El-Ḥareeree.

Or, as some relate it, المُطْرَفَيْنِ, explained by Mtr as meaning ornamented at their two ends, like the رِدَآء called مُطْرَف.

Or المُطَرَّفَيْنِ, meaning, if the reading is right, beautified and striking in the first and the last foot, being likened to the horse called مُطَرَّفٌ, which is white in the head and the tail.

And المطرّفين [that is, المُطَرَّفَيْنِ] may mean المستطرفين [that is, المُسْتَطْرَفَيْنِ].

See also طَرِيفٌ.

مَطَارِفُ is also applied to clouds, as being likened to the garments so called; see art. دكن.

See also طَرِيفٌ.

See also مُطْرِفٌ. And see سَجْعٌ.

In a verse of Sāʿideh the Hudhalee describing a horse, as some relate it — others read مُطَرِّف — it means مُرَدَّدٌ فِى الكَرَمِ, apparently: repeatedly improved in generosity by descent from a number of generous sires and dams.

See also مُسْتَطُرَفٌ.

In a verse of Sāʿideh the Hudhalee describing a horse: one that repels those who form the side, or flank, of the horses and of the hostile company of men; but as some relate it the word is مُطَرَّف.

Also an eye hit, struck, or hurt with a thing, so that it sheds tears.

And طَرِيفٌ, applied to an eye, means the same as مَطْرُوفَةٌ, in one of these senses, though it is not said which.

This is said to be its meaning in the saying of Ṭarafeh: [When we say, “Sing to us,” she comes to us in her gentle way, as though her eye were hurt by something, from the languor of her look, not straining herself in her singing]

. But as some relate the verse the word is مَطْرُوقَةً, meaning “weakly”.

Or it means one whose eye the love of the men has smitten, so that she raises her eyes and looks at everyone who looks at her, as though a طَرْفَة [or red spot of blood], or a stick or the like, had hurt her eye.

Or one having a languishing eye, as though it were turned away, or back, from everything at which it looked; or as though her eye were turned away, or back, so that it stays still.

Or one who looks at the men, that is, who does not keep constantly to one; the ism mafʿūl being put in the place of the ism fāʿil. But Az says that this explanation goes against the original sense of the word.

Or مَطْرُوفَةٌ بِالرِّجَال means a woman who raises, or stretches and raises, her eye at men, and turns her look away from her husband to others, and in whom there is no good; or one who looks at none but the men; or مَطْرُوفَةُ العَيْنِ بِالرِّجَالِ has this meaning.

That is, فى مُسْتَأْنَفِهَا; also فى مُطَرَّفِ الايّام.