ArabicGenius عَبْقَرِيُّ العَرَبِيَّةِ
laff

wrap, turn

لَفّ

Word

Verb

Root

ل ف ف

Forms

Present
يَلُفُّ

In the library

قالوا: وروايةُ الرَّاءِ مأْخُوذَةٌ مِنْ تكْوِير العِمامةِ، وهُوَ لَفُّهَا وجمْعُها، وروايةُ النون مِنَ الكَوْن، مصْدَرُ"كانَ يكُونُ كَوناً"إِذَا وُجد واسْتَقرَّ.

Riyad al-Salihin, page 431 →
Conjugation
Person PastPresent
he هُوَ لَفَّيَلُفُّ
she هِيَ لَفَّتتَلُفُّ
they two (m.) هُما لَفّايَلُفّانِ
they two (f.) هُما لَفَّتاتَلُفّانِ
they (m.) هُمْ لَفُّوايَلُفُّونَ
they (f.) هُنَّ لَفَفْنَيَلْفُفْنَ
you (m.) أَنْتَ لَفَفْتَتَلُفُّ
you (f.) أَنْتِ لَفَفْتِتَلُفِّينَ
you two أَنْتُما لَفَفْتُماتَلُفّانِ
you (m. pl.) أَنْتُمْ لَفَفْتُمتَلُفُّونَ
you (f. pl.) أَنْتُنَّ لَفَفْتُنَّتَلْفُفْنَ
I أَنا لَفَفْتُأَلُفُّ
we نَحْنُ لَفَفْنانَلُفُّ

From the same root

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Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 11 entries
  • لَفَّ Form I He folded
    He folded, or rather wrapped; folded up, or rather wrapped up, or rolled up, a thing in another thing. ― -b2- لَفَّ العَدُوَّ [app. He involved the enemy (in difficulty), or entangled him:] said with reference to war, and excellence of judgment, and knowledge of the case of the enemy, and the subduing him, with the infliction of many wounds. (L, in TA, voce عَمَتَهُ.) But see عَمَتَ.
  • تَلَفَّ3َ Form V Open entry
    see 8.
  • اِلْتَفَّ Form VIII It (herbage) tangled; became confused, and caught
    It (herbage) tangled; became confused, and caught, one part to another: (Msb:) or became luxuriant, or abundant; (S;) it (a collection of trees) became luxuriant, or abundant, and close together: (AHn:) [or thickly intermixed:] it (a thing) became collected together, and dense; (TA:) best rendered tangled, or luxuriant, or abundant and dense. ― -b2- اِلْتَفَّ and ↓ تَلْفَفَّ He wrapped, or enwrapped, himself in, or with, a garment; (KL, PS;) i. q. اِشْتَمَلَ. (Msb.) ― -b3- اِلْتَفَّ وَجْهُ الغُلَامِ means اِتَّصَلَتْ لِحْيَتُهُ [i. e. The face of the young man became continuous, or uninterrupted, in its beard]. (TA.) ― -b4- اِلْتَفَّ It (an affair) became complicated.
  • لَفٌّ ونَشْرٌ Complication and explication, involution and evolution
    in rhetoric, [Complication and explication, involution and evolution; i. e., a construction in which two or more words are mentioned, and, after them, two or more other words, as epithets, &c., referring to the former. لفّ ونشر مُرَتَّبٌ, Involution and evolution regularly disposed, is when the order of the latter words agrees with that of those to which they refer. لفّ ونشر مَعْكُوسٌ, or مُشَوَّشٌ, Involved, or disordered, involution and evolution, is when the order of the latter words is contrary to that of those to which they refer]. (TA, passim.) See Har, p. 383.
  • لُفَّةٌ Open entry
    i. q. لُقْمَةٌ: see صُفَّةٌ, last sentence.
  • لَفَّآءُ A thick thigh
    A thick thigh: see a verse voce تَسَاهَمُوا.
  • فُلَانٌ مِنْ لَفِيفِنَا وَضَفِيفِنَا Open entry
    : see art. ضف.
  • لِفَافَةٌ A wrapper for the leg or foot &c
    A wrapper for the leg or foot &c. (S, K.) ― -b2- And A pericarp; a glume, and the like; an envelope: pl. لَفَايأِفُ.
  • لَفِيفَةٌ A lock
    A lock (خُصْلَةٌ) of hair. (S, voce خُصْلَةٌ.)
  • نَاقَةٌ مُلَفَّفَةُ السَّنَامِ A she-camel having the hump much enveloped with fur
    [A she-camel having the hump much enveloped with fur: see اِلْتَفَّ وجْهُ الغُلَامِ]. (Ibn-'Abbád, O, K, voce عُلْفُوفٌ q. v.)
  • مُلْتَفُّ الخَلْقِ having a well-knit frame; compact in make
    A man having a well-knit frame; compact in make. (L, art. مسد.)

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