تنف

Root entry · 5 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the concept of a vast, desolate, and remote expanse of land, often characterized by its emptiness, lack of water, and extreme distance. It can also refer to a specific place name derived from this concept.

Derived headwords

التنوفةnoun

1.
Desert, wastelandboth
A desolate and barren tract of land, often vast and empty.
2.
Remote landclassical
Land characterized by its extreme distance between its extremities, implying remoteness and difficulty of access.
3.
Waterless desertclassical
A desert that lacks water, even if it is vegetated, emphasizing its arid nature.
4.
Distant pastureclassical
A distant area that might have pasture but is too far to be reached for grazing.

تنائفnoun

1.
Deserts, wastelandsboth
The plural form of التنوفة, referring to multiple desolate or remote tracts of land.

التنوفيةnoun

1.
Desert, wastelandclassical
An alternative form of التنوفة, referring to a desolate and barren tract of land.

تنوفىname

1.
Tanufah (place name)classical
A proper noun referring to a specific place, likely named after its desolate characteristics.

تنوفاءname

1.
Tanufah (place name)classical
A possible longer form of the place name تنوفى, with an extended final vowel.

Parallel reading

القفر من الأرض وأصل بنائها التنف، وهي المفازة، والجمع تنائف؛

The desolate tract of land, and the origin of its construction is التنف, which is the desert, and its plural is تنائف;

وقيل: التنوفة من الأرض المتباعدة ما بين الأطراف،

And it was said: التنوفة is land with distant intervals between its extremities,

وقيل: التنوفة التي لا ماء بها من الفلوات ولا أنيس وإن كانت معشبة،

And it was said: التنوفة is that which has no water in it from the deserts, nor any companion, even if it is verdant,

وقيل: التنوفة البعيدة وفيها مجتمع كلإ ولكن لا يقدر على رعيه لبعدها.

And it was said: التنوفة is distant and has a gathering of pasture, but one cannot reach it for grazing due to its distance.

أنه سافر رجل بأرض تنوفة ؛

That a man traveled through a desolate land;

التنوفة: الأرض القفر، وقيل البعيدة الماء؛

التنوفة: the desolate land, and it was said: distant from water;

قال الجوهري: التنوفة المفازة، وكذلك التنوفية كما قالوا دو ودوية لأنها أرض مثلها فنسبت إليها؛

Al-Jawhari said: التنوفة is the desert, and likewise التنوفية, just as they said دو and دوية because it is land like it, so it was attributed to it;

كم دون ليلى من تنوفية ... لماعة، تنذر فيها النذر

How far from Layla is a desolate expanse... shining, in which one gives warning of vows.

وتنوفى: موضع؛

And تنوفى: a place;

كأن دثارا حلقت بلبونه ... عقاب تنوفى، لا عقاب القواعل

As if their carcasses were circled by the vultures of Tanufah, not the vultures of Al-Qawa'il.

يجوز أن تكون تنوفى مقصورة من تنوفاء بمنزلة بروكاء،

It is permissible that Tanufah is shortened from Tanufah, like Barukaa is shortened from Barukaa.

وقد يجوز أن يكون ألف تنوفى إشباعا للفتحة لا سيما وقد رويناه مفتوحا وتكون هذه الألف ملحقة مع الإشباع لإقامة الوزن؛

And it is also permissible that the alif of Tanufah is an elongation of the fatḥah, especially since we have narrated it with a fatḥah, and this alif is an addition with the elongation to maintain the meter;

ألا تراها مقابلة لياء مفاعيلن كما أن الألف في قوله: ينباع من ذفرى غضوب جسرة إنما هي إشباع للفتحة طلبا لإقامة الوزن،

Do you not see it corresponds to the ya' of mafa'ilun, just as the alif in his saying: yanbā' from the nape of a spirited, robust she-camel, is merely an elongation of the fatḥah in pursuit of maintaining the meter,

ألا ترى أنه لو قال ينبع من ذفرى لصح الوزن إلا أن فيه زحافا، وهو الخزل، كما أنه لو قال تنوف لكان الجزء مقبوضا فالإشباع إذا في الموضعين إنما هو مخافة الزحاف الذي هو جائز.

Do you not see that if he had said yanbu' from the nape, the meter would be correct, except that it would contain a metrical defect, which is al-khazal, just as if he had said tanuf, the part would be contracted, so the elongation in both places is therefore to avoid the metrical defect, which is permissible.