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5 تشوّف ذ He adorned himself: (K:) or تشوّفت she (a woman, IDrd, O, or a girl, or young woman, S) adorned herself. (IDrd, S, O.) One says of a woman divorced by a sentence that admits of her returning, تُتَشَوَّفُ لِزَوْجِهَا i. e. She adorns herself for her husband, by making her face clear, and polishing her cheeks; from 1 in the first of the senses assigned to it above. (Mgh.) -A2- تشوّفت الأَوْعَالُ The mountain-goats ascended upon the tops of the mountains, (Lth, O, Msb,) and looked down, (Lth, O,) to see the plain country and its freedom from those whom they feared, in order that they might repair to the water and the pasturage. (Msb.) ― -b2- Hence, تشوّف لِكَذَا He (a man) raised, or stretched and raised, his eyes, or sight, towards such a thing: and hence the verb became used to denote hope, or expectation, and desire, or seeking. (Msb.) And تشوّف مِنَ السَّطْحِ He stretched himself up, and looked, and overlooked, or looked down, from the house-top. (K.) One says, النِّسَآءُ يَتَشَوَّفْنَ مِنَ السُّطْوحِ The women look, [or look down,] stretching themselves up, from the house-tops. (S, O.) [See also 8.] And one says also, تشوّف إِِلَى الشىْءِ, (S,) or الى الخَيْرِ, (O, K,) or الى الخَبَرِ, (CK,) He looked for [the thing, or good, or the news or tidings], (S, O, K,) &c. (TA.) ― -b3- And تشوّف الشَّىْءُ The thing rose, or became high or elevated; as also ↓ اشاف . (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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