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اللفاع

Root entry · 10 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns covering, enveloping, and wrapping. It extends to items used for covering, such as cloaks and garments, and metaphorically to things that encompass or spread over something, like old age or a patch. It also includes specific actions related to handling or manipulating objects, and a sense of change.

Derived headwords

اللِّفَاعnoun
  1. 1.
    Covering, cloakboth

    A covering, cloak, or wrap, especially one used by a woman.

  2. 2.
    Camelclassical

    A name for a camel.

  3. 3.
    Forwardingclassical

    The front part of something, or a forward extension.

  4. 4.
    Patchclassical

    A patch added to a shirt.

تَلَفَّعَverb
  1. 1.
    To wrap oneselfboth

    To wrap oneself in a garment or covering.

  2. 2.
    To be coveredboth

    To be encompassed or spread over by something, such as old age.

تَلَفُّعnoun
  1. 1.
    Wrapping oneselfboth

    The act of wrapping oneself in a garment or covering.

  2. 2.
    Burningclassical

    The act of burning or being inflamed.

تَلَفَّعَverb
  1. 1.
    To be covered (by grey hair)both

    For grey hair to spread over and cover one's head.

تَلِفَعَverb
  1. 1.
    To change colorclassical

    For one's color to change.

لَفَعَverb
  1. 1.
    To cover, envelopboth

    To cover or envelop something, like grey hair covering a head.

  2. 2.
    To embraceclassical

    For a woman to draw someone close and embrace them.

لَفْعnoun
  1. 1.
    Coveringboth

    The act of covering or enveloping.

لَفَّعَverb
  1. 1.
    To eat excessivelyclassical

    To eat a great deal.

  2. 2.
    To invert a waterskinclassical

    To invert a waterskin, making its openings meet in the middle, sometimes undone, sometimes sewn.

اللَّفِيعَةnoun
  1. 1.
    Patch on a shirtclassical

    A patch that is added to a shirt.

تَلَفَّعَverb
  1. 1.
    To embraceclassical

    To embrace or hold someone close.

Parallel reading

الملحفة، أو الكساء، أو النطع، أو الرداء، وكل ما تتلفع به المرأة
The cloak, or garment, or mat, or robe, and everything a woman wraps herself with.
وبهاء: الرقعة تزاد في القميص، كاللفيعة
And Bahā': a patch added to a shirt, like the lifī'ah.
ولفع الشيب رأسه، كمنع: شمله كلفعه
And grey hair covered his head, as in 'man'a': it encompassed him like its covering.
ولفع تلفيعا: أكثر من الأكل
And he ate excessively (laffa'a) with much eating (talfee'an): he ate a lot.
ولفع المزادة تلفيعا: قلبها فجعل أطبتها في وسطها، وربما نقضت، وربما خرزت
And he inverted the waterskin (laffa'a) with inversion (talfee'an): he turned it over and made its openings meet in the middle, and sometimes it was undone, and sometimes it was sewn.
والمرأة: ضمها إليه، واشتمل عليها
And the woman: she drew him to her and embraced him.
والتلفع: التلحف، والتلهب
And al-talaffu': wrapping oneself, and burning.
وتلفع فلان: شمله الشيب
And so-and-so was covered (talaffa'a): grey hair encompassed him.
وتلفع: التحف
And he wrapped himself (talaffa'a): he covered himself.
وتلفع لونه، مجهولا: تغير
And his color was changed (tuliffi'a), passively: it changed.