طَرِفٌ

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طَرِفٌ , in the K , but the former is the right, A male camel that removes from one pasturage to another; not keeping constantly to one pasturage. And طَرِفَةٌ A she-camel that does not keep constantly to one pasturage; that depastures the extremities, or sides, of the pasturage, and tastes, and does not keep constantly to one pasturage: or, accord. to As, that looks at the meadows (تَطْرِفُ الرِّيَاضَ), meadow after meadow [app. to pasture upon them in succession]: and , so applied, signifies the same as طَرِفَةٌ: and مِطْرَافٌ , so applied, that will not feed upon a pasturage unless she choose anew, or take the first of, (حَتَّى تَسْتَطْرِفَ,) another.
2 And [hence ] طَرِفٌ applied to a man signifies That does not keep constantly to a wife, or woman, nor to a companion: and , thus accord. to the K, (TA, [in which it is said that by rule it should be طَرِفٌ, as above,]) a man who does not keep constantly to the companionship of one person, by reason of his weariness. And applied to a woman That chooses new ones of the men (تَسْتَطْرِفُ الرِّجَالَ), not keeping constantly to a husband; as being likened to the she-camel termed طَرِفَةٌ.

def.2 And طَرِفٌ, applied to a she-camel, accord. to IAar, Whose fore part of the head has gradually shed its hair (الَّتِى تَحَاتَّ مُقَدَّمُ الرَّأْسِ فِيهَا, O) or whose fore part of her mouth has shed its teeth one after another (التى تَحَاتَّ مُقَدَّمُ فِيهَا, K) by reason of extreme age.

def.3 Also, and Contr. of قُعْدُدٌ; i. e., as the latter is further expl. in the S, and each in the M, having many ancestors, up to the greatest [i. e. most remote] forefather; and J adds that sometimes it is used in praise: thus also As explains النَّسَبِ: accord. to IAar, طَرِيفٌ signifies منحدر فى النَّسَبِ [app. مُنْحَدِرٌ, as though meaning of long descent]; and he says that it is with the Arabs more noble than قُعْدُدٌ: the pl. of طَرِفٌ as meaning the contr. of قُعْدُدٌ is طَرِفُونَ; and the pl. of طَرِيفٌ in the same sense is طُرُفٌ and طُرَفٌ and طُرَّافٌ, the second and third of which pls. are anomalous.
2 [طَرِفٌ seems also to have the contr. meaning; or One whose nobility is recent: and the like is said of قُعْدُدٌ; that it has two contr. meanings:] see طِرْفٌ.

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