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طِرَافٌ ذ The portion that is taken [app. meaning cut] from the extremities (أَطْرَاف) of corn, or seed-produce. (Ibn-'Abbád, O, K.) ― -b2- تَوَارَثُوا المَجْدَ طِرَفًا means عَنْ شَرَفٍ [i. e. They inherited, one after another, glory from nobility of ancestry]. (Ibn-'Abbád, O, K.) ― -b3- See also طَرِيفٌ. ― -b4- And see طَرَفٌ, last sentence but one. -A2- Also A tent of skin, or leather, (S, K, TA,) without a كِفَآء [q. v., for it is variously explained]; of the tents of the Arabs of the desert. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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