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مُطَرِّفٌ

Root: طرف

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مُطَرِّفٌ A man who fights around the army: or, as some say, who fights the أَطْرَاف [app. meaning noble, or exalted, pl. of طَرَفٌ q. v., or of طِرْفٌ,] of men.
2 In a verse of Sá'ideh the Hudhalee, describing a horse, that repels those that form the side, or flank, of the horses and of the [hostile] company of men: but as some relate it, the word is مُطَرَّف [q. v.].
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