طَوَّافٌ
1.
; and its feminine, with ة: see طَافٌ.
2.
The former signifies also A servant who serves one with gentleness and carefulness: (K, TA:) plural طَوَّافُونَ: so says AHeyth: IDrd explains the plural as meaning servants, and male slaves. (TA.) It is said in a tradition, respecting the she-cat, that it is not unclean, but is مِنَ الطَّوَّافِينَ عَلَيْكُمْ, or الطَّوَّافَاتِ; [i. e. of those that go round about waiting upon you;] she being thus put it. the predicament of the slaves: whence the saying of En-Nakha'ee, that the she-cat is like some of the people of the house, or tent. (TA.) [In the CK, a meaning belonging to طُوفَان is erroneously assigned to طَوَّاف.]
3.
Also A maker of the
طَوْف
that is composed of [inflated] water-skins [&c.] upon which one crosses [rivers &c.]. (TA.)