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تفو

Root entry · 3 derived lemmas

This root appears to relate to plants, specifically a type of ground creeper. It also touches upon etymological discussions regarding the origin of certain words and their root letters.

Derived headwords

التفةnoun
  1. 1.
    ground creeperboth

    A plant that grows along the ground, specifically identified as 'anāq al-arḍ.

توفverb
  1. 1.
    to be foundclassical

    The passive form indicating something was discovered or existed.

وثفverb
  1. 1.
    to be firmclassical

    Indicates stability or being firmly established, used in an etymological context.

Parallel reading

وهو عناق الأرض
And it is the ground creeper.
وقد مر ذكره هناك
And its mention has already passed there.
وهو من الواو لأنا وجدنا توف
And it is from the 'waw' because we found 'tawafa'.
ولم نجد تيف
And we did not find 'tayafa'.
فإن أبا علي يستدل على المقلوب بالمقلوب
For Abu Ali argues for the inverted by the inverted.
ألا تراه استدل على أن لام أثفية واو بقولهم وثف
Do you not see that he argued that the 'lam' of 'athafiyah' is a 'waw' by their saying 'wathafa'?
والواو في وثف فاء
And the 'waw' in 'wathafa' is the 'fa'.
ومما يستدرك عليه
And from what is to be added to it.