طَرْفَآء
Root: طرف
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طَرْفَآء
[accord. to some طَرْفَآءٌ and accord. to others طَرْفَآءُ, as will be seen from what follows,] A kind of trees, of which there are four species, one of these being the
أَثْل [q. v.]: [or it is different from the
أَثْل: the name is now generally applied to the common, or French, tamarisk; tamarix gallica of Linn.: ] AHn says, it is of the kind called
عِضَاه; its
هَدَب [q. v.] are like those of the
أَثْل; it has no wood fit for carpentry, coming forth only as even and smooth rods towards the sky; and sometimes the camels eat it as
حَمْض [q. v.] when they find no other
حَمْض: AA, he adds, says that it is a sort of
حَمْض: the n. un. is
طَرَفَةٌ , [which is irreg.,] and طَرْفَآءَةٌ, (AHn, O, K, [in the CK, erroneously, طَرْفَاةٌ,]) [and this requires طَرْفَآء to be with tenween, as a coll. gen. n.,] or, accord. to Sb, طَرْفَآء is sing. and pl.: or it is a pl. [or quasi-pl. n.] of طَرَفَةٌ, like as شَجْرَآءُ is of شَجَرَةٌ: (S in art. شجر: [see شَجَرٌ:]) or it is coll. gen. n.: accord. to IJ, the ء in طَرْفَآء is a denotative of the fem. gender; but in طَرْفَآءَةٌ, the ة is a denotative of the fem. gender, and the ء is augmentative.
2 Also A place of growth of the طَرَفَة.
2 Also A place of growth of the طَرَفَة.
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