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استطرفهُ

Root: طرف

Form: 10

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استطرفهُX He counted, accounted, reckoned, or esteemed, it new; or طَرِيف [as meaning newly, or recently, acquired]. One says of good discourse, يَسْتَطْرِفُهُ مَنْ سَمِعَهُ [He who has heard it esteems it new].
2 And استطرف الشَّىْءَ He found, gained, or acquired, the thing newly.
3 You say of a woman who does not keep constantly to a husband, تَسْتَطْرِفُ الرِّجَالَ [She takes, or chooses, new ones of the men]: she who does thus being likened to the she-camel termed طَرِفَةٌ, that depastures the extremities, or sides, of the pasturage, and tastes, and does not keep constantly to one pasturage. See also 1, last quarter.
4 And one says of camels, استطرنت المَرْتَعَ They chose, or selected, the pasturage: or they took the first thereof.
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