Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

اتفحهُ [He gave him an apple]. You say, أَتْحَفَكَ مَنْ أَتْفَحَكَ [He makes a present to thee who gives thee an apple]. (A: there immediately following the saying, فُلَانٌ تُحْفَتُهُ تُفَّاحَةٌ.)

تَفْحَةٌ A sweet odour. (Abu-l-Khattáb, L.)

تُفَّاحٌ, of the measure فُعَّالٌ; an Arabic word; [not arabicized;] (Mṣb;) [The apple, or apples;] a certain fruit, (L, Mṣb,) well known, (Ṣ, L, Mṣb, Ḳ,) plentiful in [the cooler parts of] the land of the Arabs: (AḤn, TA:) the word is said by Abu-l-Khattáb to be derived from تَفْحَةٌ “a sweet odour:” (L:) the n. un. is with ة {تُفَّاحَةٌ}: (Ṣ, L, Mṣb:) the pl. is تَفَافِيحُ: (T:) and the dim. of the n. un. isتُفَيْفيحَةٌ↓. (L.) You say, فُلَانٌ تُحْفَتُهُ تُفَّاحَةٌ [Such a one, his present is an apple]. (A.)

تُفَّاحُ الحُبِّ and تُفَّاحٌ ذَهَبِىٌّ: see بَاذَنْجَانٌ.

تُفَّاحُ البَرِّ: see يَبْرُوحٌ, in art. برح.

التُّفَّاحَةُ also signifies ‡ The head of the thigh-bone, which is in the haunch-bone. (Kr, A, Ḳ.)

لَطَمْنَ بِالعُنَّابِ التُّفَّاحَ [lit. They (women) slapped, with the jujubes, the apples] means, ‡ with the fingers, or the ends of the fingers, the cheeks. (A.)

مَتْفَحَةٌ A place where apples grow (L, Ḳ) in abundance. (L.)