تَنُوفَةٌ
Root: تنف
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تَنُوفَةٌ
and
, like دَوٌّ and دَوِّيَّةٌ, the latter a rel. n. from the former, A [desert such as is termed] مَفَازَة: or a land such as is termed
قَفْر [i. e. vacant, or void, or desert, destitute of vegetable produce and of water; or destitute of human beings, but sometimes containing a little herbage or pasturage]: or a wide, or spacious, land, of which the extremities are far apart: or a desert (فَلَاة) in which is no water nor any person to cheer one by his company, though it may have, or produce, herbage; so says ISh: or a farextending desert, in which is a collection of herbage, but such as cannot be depastured because of its remoteness: pl. تَنَائِفُ.
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