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تُرْفَةٌ رف رفا رفه ترف ترفه ترفة ورف Plentifulness, and pleasantness or easiness, and softness or delicacy, of life; a life of softness or delicacy, and ease, comfort, or affluence; or ease and plenty; syn. نَعْمَةٌ, (T, K, TA,) and سَعَةُ العَيْشِ: (TA:) or i. q. نِعْمَةٌ [i. e. wealth; or what God bestows upon one; &c.]. (Mgh, and so in the CK. [But this I think a mistranscription, for نَعْمة.]) ― -b2- Good, sweet, or pleasant, food. (IDrd, M, K.) ― -b3- A new, or strange, thing, (شَىْءٌ طَرِيفٌ, [in some copies of the K, ظَرِيف is put in the place of طَرِيف,]) that one appropriates, or peculiarly assigns, [as a gift] to a friend; or by [the gift of] which one distinguishes a friend: (K:) any طُرْفَة [i. e. gift not given to any one before; or of which the recipient did not possess the like, and which pleases him; or novel, or rare, and pleasing, present]. (M, TA.) -A2- A thing protuberant in the middle of the upper lip, by nature. (Lth, * T, * S, M, K.) -A3- A مِسْقَاة [q. v.] with which one drinks. (M, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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