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طَرَف
edge /ˈtˤa.raf/
nounA2#1361 most common
Also: end, tip, extremity, party (to a dispute or contract)
Example sentences
هٰذَا طَرَفُ الْحَبْلِ.
This is the end of the rope.
وَقَفَ الْوَلَدُ عِنْدَ طَرَفِ الشَّارِعِ.
The boy stood at the end of the street.
أَمْسَكَتِ الْفَتَاةُ بِطَرَفِ ثَوْبِهَا.
The girl held the edge of her dress.
يَشْعُرُ الْمَرِيضُ بِأَلَمٍ فِي أَطْرَافِهِ.
The patient feels pain in his limbs.
وَافَقَ الطَّرَفَانِ عَلَى شُرُوطِ الْعَقْدِ.
The two parties agreed to the terms of the contract.
لَمْ تَتَوَصَّلِ الْأَطْرَافُ الْمُتَنَازِعَةُ إِلَى تَسْوِيَةٍ بَعْدَ مُفَاوَضَاتٍ طَوِيلَةٍ.
The disputing parties did not reach a settlement after long negotiations.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | طَرَفٌ | أَطْرَافٌ |
| Genitive | طَرَفٍ | أَطْرَافٍ |
| Accusative | طَرَفًا | أَطْرَافًا |
| Vocative | يَا طَرَفُ | يَا أَطْرَافُ |
Word family
أَطْرَافextremities, limbs, parties (plural)
طَرْفeye, glance
تَطَرُّفextremism
مُتَطَرِّفextremist
طَرِيفnovel, amusing, rareEtymology
طَرَف comes from the triliteral Semitic root ط-ر-ف (ṭ-r-f), which carries the sense of an extremity or outer edge. The same root yields طَرْف, the eye or the glance, and تَطَرُّف, the act of going to the extreme. Arabic is a Semitic language, so the word has no Proto-Indo-European root.
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