طَفَافُ

Root: طف

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طَفَافُ and الإِنَآءِ, and , and , and , The quantity sufficing for the filling of the [measure called] مكّوك and of the vessel to its uppermost parts: or what remains in it after the wiping off of the head thereof: or the جِمَام or جَمَام or جُمَام thereof: or the quantity sufficing for the filling thereof: or the quantity nearly sufficing for the filling thereof: or the quantity that falls short of the filling thereof. (Mgh. [See also طُفَافَةٌ.]) It is said in a trad. of the Prophet, كُلُّكُمْ بَنُو آدَمَ طَفَّ الصَّاعِ, or طَفُّ الصَّاعِ, All of you, sons of Adam, are like the quantity nearly sufficing for the filling of the صاع; i. e. ye are all nearly alike; so says Az: meaning, all of you, in being related to one father, are in one predicament in respect of defectiveness, like the thing measured that falls short of filling the measure: the Prophet then proceeded to inform them that there is no excellence of one above another except by piety.

def.2 طَفَافٌ signifies also The blackness of night; and so طِفَافٌ .
2 See also 2.

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