Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

طُفُولِيَّةٌ

Root: طفل

Full Definition

طُفُولِيَّةٌ , mentioned by ISd and the expositors of the Fs and others, as well as in the K, and also pronounced without teshdeed, [i. e. طُفُولِيَةٌ,] which shows, as do several other reasons, that the ى therein is not that which is the characteristic of rel. ns., though it has been asserted to be so, The state, or condition, of the طِفْل; [i. e. early infancy: or, in a larger sense, childhood;] as also طُفُولَةٌ and طَفَالَةٌ and طَفَلٌ ; [inf. ns.] having no verb [corresponding to them].


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