عَطْفَةٌ
Root: عطف
Full Definition
def.2 And A certain bead by means of which women captivate men; as also عِطْفَةٌ .
def.3 Also, or عَطَفَةٌ , for which عَطْفَة is used by poetic license, A tree to which the حَبْلَة [i. e. grape-vine, or branch of a grapevine,] clings; and so عِطْفَةٌ , or thus as written in the “ Book of Plants ” by AHn, who says that it is thus called because of its bending and twining upon trees: (O: [but this remark seems evidently to show that he means thereby one of the plants mentioned below voce عِطْفَةٌ or voce عَطَفَةٌ, or perhaps what here follows:]) IB says that the عَطْفَة is the لَبْلَاب [dolichos lablab of Linn.]; so called because of its twining upon trees: [and this, or what will be found mentioned voce عَطَفَةٌ below, may be meant in the following verse:] a poet says,
[The love of her mingled with, and clung to, my blood and my flesh, like the mingling and clinging of an عطفة with, and to, the branches of a wild lote-tree].تَلَبَّسَ حُبُّهَا بِدَمِى وَلَحْمِى تَلَبُّسَ عَطْفَةٍ بِفُرُوعِ ضَالِ
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