طنف

Root entry · 17 derived lemmas

The root طنف primarily relates to accusation and suspicion, extending to the concept of being involved or implicated in something. It also describes physical protrusions, particularly from mountains or walls, and architectural features like eaves or overhangs.

Derived headwords

الطَّنْفnoun

1.
accusationboth
The state of being accused or charged with a wrongdoing.
2.
suspicionboth
A feeling or belief that someone is guilty of a crime or has done something wrong.

مُطَنَّفadjective

1.
accusedboth
A person who is accused or suspected of a wrongdoing.
2.
suspectedboth
A person who is under suspicion for an offense.

طَنَّفَverb

1.
to accuseboth
To charge someone with a wrongdoing or offense.
2.
to suspectboth
To have a feeling or belief that someone is guilty of a crime or has done something wrong.

طَنَفَ لِلْأَمْرِverb

1.
to commit an actclassical
To engage in or perpetrate a specific action or deed.
2.
to be implicated inclassical
To be involved or entangled in a matter, often with a negative connotation.

طَنَفَ لِلظُّنَّةِverb

1.
to commit an act due to suspicionclassical
To engage in an action that leads to or is associated with suspicion.

الطَّنَفnoun

1.
protrusion from a mountainclassical
A part that juts out from a mountain, resembling a cliff or overhang.
2.
rocky outcropclassical
A prominent rocky formation that extends from a mountain.

الطَّنَفnoun

1.
eaves of a wallboth
An overhanging ledge or cornice on the top of a wall.
2.
parapetclassical
A low protective wall along the edge of a roof, bridge, or balcony.

الطَّنَفnoun

1.
canopy over a doorboth
A roof-like projection or shelter built over a doorway.
2.
awningboth
A covering attached to the outside of a building to provide shade or shelter.

طَنَّفَ حَائِطَهُverb

1.
to add eaves to a wallclassical
To construct a projecting ledge or cornice on top of a wall.

الطَّنَفnoun

1.
wing-like projectionclassical
A part that extends outwards, resembling a wing.

الطَّنَفnoun

1.
strapsclassical
Leather or rope bands used for fastening or carrying.

الطَّنَفnoun

1.
red skins on basketsclassical
Red-colored hides or skins used on baskets.

الطَّنَفnoun

1.
red shrubclassical
A red-colored shrub resembling the 'anam plant.

طَنَفَnoun

1.
corruptionclassical
Moral decay or depravity.
2.
bad characterclassical
A person of corrupt or wicked disposition.

طَنَافَةnoun

1.
corruptionclassical
The state of being corrupt or morally depraved.

طَنُوفَةnoun

1.
corruptionclassical
A state of moral decay or depravity.

المُطَنَّفnoun

1.
that which is aboveclassical
Something that is situated on top of or overlooks something else.

Parallel reading

الطنف: التهمة.

Al-tanf: accusation.

ورجل مطنف أي متهم.

And a man is mutannaf, meaning accused.

وطنفه: اتهمه.

And tanfah: he accused him.

وطنف للأمر: قارفه.

And tanafa lil-amr: he committed it.

وطنف فلان للظنة إذا قارف لها، يقال: طنف فلان للأمر فاسلوه «1».

And so-and-so committed an act for suspicion if he perpetrated it; it is said: so-and-so committed an act, and they let him go.

والطنف: المتهم بالأمر كأنه على النسب، وفلان يطنف بهذه السرقة، وإنه لطنف بهذا الأمر أي متهم.

And al-tanf: the one accused of the matter, as if it were by lineage; and so-and-so is accused of this theft, and he is indeed accused of this matter.

وفي حديث جريج: كانت سنتهم إذا ترهب الرجل منهم ثم طنف بالفجور لم يقبلوا منه إلا القتل ، أي اتهم.

And in the hadith of Jurayj: their custom was that if a man among them became a monk, then he committed acts of immorality, they would not accept anything from him except death, meaning he was accused.

يقال: طنفته فهو مطنف أي اتهمته فهو متهم.

It is said: I accused him, so he is mutannaf, meaning I suspected him, so he is suspected.

والطنف: الفاسد الدخلة، طنف طنفا وطنافة وطنوفة.

And al-tanf: the corrupt in nature; tanafa, tanfan, tanafatan, and tanufatan.

والطنف والطنف والطنف والطنف: ما نتأ من الجبل، وهو نحو من الحيد، وقيل: هو شاخص يخرج من الجبل فيتقدم كأنه جناح.

And al-tanf (various vocalizations): what protrudes from the mountain, and it is like a cliff, and it is said: it is a prominence emerging from the mountain that extends forward like a wing.

قال أبو منصور: ومن هذا يقال طنف فلان جدار داره إذا جعل فوقه شجرا أو شوكا يصعب تسلقه لمجاورة أطراف العيدان المشوكة رأسه،

Abu Mansur said: And from this is said, so-and-so made his house wall tanf when he placed trees or thorns on top of it, making it difficult to climb due to the proximity of the thorny branches at its top,

وقيل: هو بالتحريك الحيد من الجبل ورأس من رؤوسه، والمطنف الذي يعلوه؛

And it is said: it is, with vowelization, a cliff of the mountain and one of its peaks, and al-mutannaf is that which is above it;

كأن حفيف النبل من فوق عجسها ... عوازب نحل أخطأ الغار مطنف

As if the rustling of arrows from above its hindquarters... were swarms of bees that missed the cave, a mutannaf.

والطنف: إفريز الحائط.

And al-tanf: the cornice of the wall.

والطنف والطنف: السقيفة تشرع فوق باب الدار، وهي الكنة وجمعها الكنان، وقيل: هو ما أشرف خارجا عن البناء.

And al-tanf (and al-tanf): the canopy that extends over the door of the house, and it is al-kunnah, and its plural is al-kinan; and it is said: it is what overlooks outside the building.

وطنف حائطه: جعل له برزينا وهو الإفريز.

And he made his wall tanf: he made for it a projection, which is the cornice.

ابن الأعرابي: ويقال للجناح يشرع فوق باب الدار طنف أيضا، شبه بطنف الجبل؛

Ibn al-A'rabi said: And the wing-like projection that extends over the door of the house is also called tanf, likened to the tanf of the mountain;

قال أبو ذؤيب يصف خلية عسل في طنف الجبل: فما ضرب بيضاء يأوي مليكها ... إلى طنف أعيا براق ونازل

Abu Dhu'ayb said, describing a beehive on a mountain overhang: So it is not a white she-camel whose king seeks refuge... on an overhang that exhausts the climber and the descender.

الطنف: حيد يندر من الجبل قد أعيا بمن يرقى ومن ينزل.

Al-tanf: a cliff that juts out from the mountain, which has exhausted those who climb and those who descend.

والطنف: السيور؛

And al-tanf: the straps;

قال الأفوه الأودي: سود غدائرها، بلج محاجرها، ... كأن أطرافها، لما اجتلى، الطنف

Al-Afwah al-Audi said: Their locks were dark, their eye sockets bright... as if their ends, when revealed, were al-tanf.

والطنف أيضا؛ قال ابن سيده: هذه رواية أبي عبيد ويروى: كأن أطرافها في الجلوة؛

And al-tanf also; Ibn Sidah said: This is the narration of Abu Ubayd, and it is narrated: as if their ends were in the unveiling;

وقيل: الطنف الجلود الحمر التي تكون على الأسفاط،

And it is said: al-tanf are the red skins that are on the baskets,

وقيل: الطنف شجر أحمر يشبه العنم.

And it is said: al-tanf is a red shrub resembling the 'anam plant.