Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

تُرْفَةٌ

Root: ترف

Full Definition

تُرْفَةٌ Plentifulness, and pleasantness or easiness, and softness or delicacy, of life; a life of softness or delicacy, and ease, comfort, or affluence; or ease and plenty; syn. نَعْمَةٌ, and سَعَةُ العَيْشِ: or i. q. نِعْمَةٌ [i. e. wealth; or what God bestows upon one; &c.]. (Mgh, and so in the CK. [But this I think a mistranscription, for نَعْمة.])
2 Good, sweet, or pleasant, food.
3 A new, or strange, thing, (شَىْءٌ طَرِيفٌ, [in some copies of the K, ظَرِيف is put in the place of طَرِيف,]) that one appropriates, or peculiarly assigns, [as a gift] to a friend; or by [the gift of] which one distinguishes a friend: any طُرْفَة [i. e. gift not given to any one before; or of which the recipient did not possess the like, and which pleases him; or novel, or rare, and pleasing, present].

def.2 A thing protuberant in the middle of the upper lip, by nature.

def.3 A مِسْقَاة [q. v.] with which one drinks.


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