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طرفل

Root entry · 2 derived lemmas

This root appears to relate to a compound medicinal drug. The entry explicitly states that the term is not purely Arabic, suggesting it might be a loanword or a composite term.

Derived headwords

طَرَفَّلَverb
  1. 1.
    to be compounded (medicine)classical

    To be made up of multiple ingredients, specifically referring to a medicinal compound.

طُرْفُلnoun
  1. 1.
    compound medicineclassical

    A medicinal drug that is composed of several different ingredients.

Parallel reading

طرفل دواء مؤلف
Tarfal is a compound medicine.
وليس بعربي محض
And it is not purely Arabic.