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4 أَطْوَفَ see 1, in two places. ― -b2- اطاف بِالشَّىْءِ signifies also He, or it, surrounded, or encompassed, the thing. (Msb.) ― -b3- And اطاف بِهِ He came to him; visited him; or alighted at his abode as a guest; syn. أَلَمَّ بِهِ: and he approached him; or drew, or was, or became, near to him; syn. قَارَبَهُ. (S, K.) [And] بِالنِّسَآءِ ↓ طَافَ , aor. يَطُوفُ; and اطاف; He came to women, or the women; visited them; or alighted at their abodes as a guest; syn. أَلَمَّ (Msb.) And اطاف بِهِ and عَلَيْهِ He came to him by night: and sometimes improperly used as meaning by day: a poet says, “ أَطَفْتُ بِهَا نَهَارًا غَيْرَ لَيْلٍ
وَأَلْهَى رَبَّهَا طَلَبُ الرِّحَالِ
” [I came to her by day, not by night, while the seeking for the camels' saddles, or for the things necessary for his journey, or for the places of alighting, diverted her lord, or husband, from attending to her]. (TA.) And بِهِ الخَيَالُ ↓ طاف , aor. يَطُوفُ, inf. n. طَوْفٌ; and, as As used to say, طاف, aor. يَطِيفُ, inf. n. طَيْفٌ; The خيال [i. e. apparition, or phantom,] came to him, or visited him, (أَلَمَّ بِهِ,) in sleep. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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