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, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) aor. يَطْفُو, (S, Mgh, Msb,) inf. n. طُفُوٌّ (S, Mgh, Msb, K) and طَفْوٌ, (S, Msb, K,) It (a thing, S, Mgh, Msb) floated upon the water, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) and did not sink. (S, Msb.) [Hence,] one says, الظُّعُنُ تَطْفُو وَتَرْسُبُ فِى السَّرَابِ (assumed tropical:) [The women's camel-vehicles appear, as though floating, and disappear, as though sinking, in the mirage]. (TA.) And طَفَتِ الخُوصَةُ فَوْقَ الشَّجَرِ (tropical:) [The leaf of the date-palm, or of the Theban palm, &c.,] appeared [above the trees]. (K, TA.) And طَفَا said of a bull, (K,) or of a wild bull, (TA,) (tropical:) He mounted upon the hills (K, TA) and upon the sands. (TA. [In the CK, على الاَكَمِ is erroneously put for عَلَا الأَكَمَ.]) And طَفَوْتُ فَوْقَهُ (assumed tropical:) I leaped upon it. (TA.) The saying

عَبْدٌ إِذَا مَا رَسَبَ القَوْمُ طَفَا

is expl. by IAar as meaning [A slave] who, when the people are grave, leaps by reason of his ignorance. (TA.) And طَفَا المَاءُ [not a mistranscription for طَغَا] (assumed tropical:) The water rose, or became high. (TA voce طُوفَانٌ, q. v.) And طَفَا said of a gazelle, (assumed tropical:) He ran vehemently. (K.) One says of a gazelle, مَرَّ يَطْفُو, meaning (tropical:) He passed by, or along, or away, going lightly, or briskly, upon the ground, and running vehemently. (S, TA.) And, said of a man, (K, TA,) by way of comparison [to a floating fish], (TA,) (tropical:) He died. (K, TA.) And (assumed tropical:) He (i. e. a man) entered into [or upon] an affair: (K, TA:) [or,] accord. to the “ Nawádir, ” one says, طَفَا فِى الأَرْضِ he entered into the earth, either وَاغِلًا [app. as meaning penetrating, and becoming concealed], or رَاسِخًا [app. as meaning becoming firmly fixed therein]. (TA.) -A2- [طَفَا is made trans. by means of بِ: see an ex. voce أَرْسَبَ.]

He kept continually, or constantly, to the eating of fish found floating upon the water. (TA.)

, (K,) thus it should app. be accord. to the K, but in copies of the M, ↓ طُفْوَةٌ, with damm, (TA,) A thin, or slender, plant. (K.)

The floating froth or scum (K, TA) and grease (TA) of the cooking-pot. (K, TA.) And A halo around the sun, (S, K,) and also around the moon [like هَالَةٌ]: (K:) the former accord. to Fr, and the latter accord. to AHát. (TA.) And one says, أَصَبْنَا طُفَاوَةً مِنَ الرَّبِيعِ meaning شَيْيءًا مِنْهُ [i. e. We obtained somewhat of the herbage, or perhaps of the rain, of the season called رَبِيع]. (S, TA.)

: see what next precedes: and see also the paragraph next following.

The leaf of the مُقْل [or Theban palm]; (S, Mgh, Msb, K;) and so ↓ طُفْوَةٌ: (As, TA:) pl. ↓ طُفْىٌ (S, * TA) or [rather this is a coll. gen. n., and the pl. properly so termed is] طُفًى, (Msb,) which is [also] pl. of طُفْوَةٌ. (As, TA.) [Accord. to Forskål (Flora Ægypt. Arab., p. cxxvi.), the Theban palm itself, which he terms “ borassus flabelliformis, ” is called طفى, as well as دوم.] And [hence] الطُّفْيَةُ, (K,) or ذُو الطُّفْيَتَيْنِ, (S, Mgh, Msb, TA,) is the name of (assumed tropical:) A serpent (S, Mgh, Msb, K) of a foul, or malignant, sort, (K,) having upon its back two lines, or stripes, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) which are black, (S, Mgh, Msb,) resembling two leaves such as are termed طُفْيَتَانِ: (S, Mgh, Msb, K:) and sometimes it is termed طُفْيَةٌ, meaning ذَاتُ طُفْيَةٍ: and الطُّفَى is used as the pl., meaning ذَوَاتُ الطُّفَى. (S.)

Fish floating upon the surface of the water, having died therein. (Mgh, Msb, TA.) [Hence,] فَرَسٌ طَافٍ (assumed tropical:) A horse elevating his head. (TA.) كَأَنَّ عَيْنَهُ عِنَبَةٌ طَافِيَةٌ [As though his eye were a floating grape], in a trad. respecting Ed-Dejjál, is expl. by Th as meaning his eye's being prominent and conspicuous. (TA.)