ٱلّف
Root: الف
Form: 2
Full Definition
2 Hence, تَأْلِيفُ الكُتُبِ [The composition of books].
3 تَأْلِيفٌ is The putting many things into such a state that one name becomes applicable to them, whether there be to some of the parts a relation to others by precedence and sequence, or not: so that it is a more general term than تَرْتِيبٌ: or the collecting together, or putting together, suitable things; from الالفة [i. e. الأُلْفَةُ]; and is a more particular term than تَرْكِيبٌ, which is the putting together things, whether suitable or not, or placed in order or not.
def.2 أَلَّفُوا إِلَى كَذَا: see 5.
def.3 ألّف أَلِفًا He wrote an alif; like as one says جَيَّمَ جِيمًا.
def.4 See also 4, in three places.
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