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تَفِلٌ فال فل فلى تفل , applied to a man; (S, M, K;) and تَفِلَةٌ, applied to a woman, (T, M, Mgh, Msb, K,) as also ↓ مِتْفَالٌ , (T, S, M, Msb, K,) which is a possessive epithet, (M,) or an intensive epithet, (Msb,) Altered for the worse in odour, ill-smelling, or frouzy: (M, K:) who has neglected, or left off the use of, perfume: (M:) unperfumed: (T, S:) who has neglected, or left off the use of, perfume, and so become altered for the worse in odour, illsmelling, or frouzy: (Mgh, TA:) stinking, (T, Msb,) by reason of having neglected, or left off the use of, perfume and ointments: (Msb:) the pl. of تَفِلَةٌ is تَفِلَاتٌ; (T, Mgh, Msb;) applied to such women as are not to be prevented from going to the mosque, and in this case meaning unperfumed. (T, * Mgh, * TA.) ― -b2- قَوْمٌ سَفِلَةٌ تَفِلَةٌ [A company of men of the lowest and vilest sort]. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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