عَطْفٌ

[It is used in grammar as meaning Adjunction to an antecedent: this is of two kinds; عَطْفُ البَيَانِ the explicative adjunction, as in جَاءَ أَخُوكَ زَيْدٌ; and عَطْفُ النَّسَقِ the ordinal adjunction, as in جَاءَ زَيْدٌ وَعَمْرٌو: (in each of which instances the latter noun is termed مَعْطُوفٌ; and the former noun عَلَيْهِ مَعْطُوفٌ:) and hence, حَرْفُ عَطْفٍ, meaning a particle of adjunction; or what we commonly call a conjunction; (as وَ and ثُمَّ, &c.;) also termed حَرْفٌ عَاطِفٌ an adjunctive particle.]