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طَنَفٌ ذ and ↓ طُنُفٌ (S, O, K) and ↓ طَنْفٌ and ↓ طُنْفٌ (K) A حَيْد [or ledge] of a mountain; (S, O, K;) a projecting portion thereof; (K;) a portion projecting therefrom, resembling a wing: (TA:) [all these are meanings assigned to the حَيْد of a mountain:] and a head, of the heads of a mountain: (S, O, K:) pl. [of pauc.] أَطْنَافٌ and [of mult.] طُنُوفٌ. (O, K.) ― -b2- Also, (K,) or the first and second, (S, O,) The إِِفْرِيز [i. e., app., the projecting coping, or ledge, or cornice, (see زَيْفٌ, and طَاقٌ,)] of a wall: (S, O, K:) and a projecting appertenance of a building: (K:) and a roof, or covering, made to project towards the road, over the door of a house; (S, O, K;) i. q. كُنَّةٌ. (IAar, TA.) ― -b3- And طَنَفٌ is also applied to A low wall built on the house-top by the people of Mekkeh. (Z, TA.) -A2- And طَنفٌ signifies also Thongs, or straps; syn. سُيُورٌ; (A 'Obeyd, S, O, K;) and so ↓ طُنُفٌ : (S, O:) or the red skins that are [put as coverings] upon [receptacles of the kind called] أَسْفَاط [pl. of سَفَطٌ, q. v.]: (K:) or ↓ طُنُفٌ has this meaning as well as that next preceding. (O.) El-Afwah ElOwdee likens a woman's fingers to ↓ طُنُف , (O,) or طَنَف, (TA,) used in the sense last mentioned above (O, TA) [or, more probably, I think, in the sense here next following]. ― -b2- Also (i. e. طَنفٌ [and probably ↓ طُنُفٌ likewise]) A kind of red tree (شَجَرٌ [or perhaps fruit, ثَمَرٌ,]) resembling the عَنَم [q. v.]. (TA.) -A3- And Suspicion. (O, K.) [See also 1.]

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