ترف

Probably from Aramaic תרף / ܬܪܦ (trap̄). Its meanings “to sink in, to disappear; to be or become soft, to become digested or dissolved; to perish, to become ruined” are apparently from a basic meaning “to remain behind” as evidenced by South Semitic languages, widely used in Ethiopian Semitic, Ge'ez ተርፈ (tärfä), ተረፈ (täräfä) as ”to be left behind” and then from “to be left over” “to be excessive, to be superfluous”, Sabaean 𐩩𐩧𐩰 (trf, “to be left over, to remain, to be residual”), and in the other direction Soqotri terof (“to be in good health”). Surely an ancient agglutination of feminine or reflexive prefix to a stem equivalent to that of رَفَّ (raffa, “to flutter; to flare”), thence also causative رَفَأَ (rafaʔa, “to patch, to apply something on top to fix; to leave (the ship) behind, to dock”).

تَرِفَ • (tarifa) I (non-past يَتْرَفُ (yatrafu), verbal noun تَرَف (taraf))

1. to live in luxury

تَرَف • (taraf) m

1. verbal noun of تَرِفَ (tarifa) (form I)
2. luxury, opulence, affluence
3. effemination

• تُرْفَة (turfa), تَرَافَة (tarāfa)

تَرَّفَ • (tarrafa) II (non-past يُتَرِّفُ (yutarrifu), verbal noun تَتْرِيف (tatrīf)) (obsolete)

1. to spoil, to render effeminate

تَرِف • (tarif)

1. luxurious, opulent, delicate
2. effeminate

• أَتْرَفَ (ʔatrafa, “to live in opulence; to make opulent; to make effeminate”)
• تَتَرَّفَ (tatarrafa, “to live in luxury”)
• اِسْتَتْرَفَ (istatrafa, “to behave arrogantly”)

ترف (form I)

1. تَرِفُّ (tariffu) /ta.rif.fu/: inflection of رَفَّ (raffa):
   1. second-person masculine singular non-past active indicative
   2. third-person feminine singular non-past active indicative
2. تَرِفَّ (tariffa) /ta.rif.fa/: inflection of رَفَّ (raffa):
   1. second-person masculine singular non-past active subjunctive/jussive
   2. third-person feminine singular non-past active subjunctive/jussive
3. تَرِفِّ (tariffi) /ta.rif.fi/: inflection of رَفَّ (raffa):
   1. second-person masculine singular non-past active jussive
   2. third-person feminine singular non-past active jussive
4. تَرُفُّ (taruffu) /ta.ruf.fu/: inflection of رَفَّ (raffa):
   1. second-person masculine singular non-past active indicative
   2. third-person feminine singular non-past active indicative
5. تَرُفَّ (taruffa) /ta.ruf.fa/: inflection of رَفَّ (raffa):
   1. second-person masculine singular non-past active subjunctive/jussive
   2. third-person feminine singular non-past active subjunctive/jussive
6. تَرُفِّ (taruffi) /ta.ruf.fi/: inflection of رَفَّ (raffa):
   1. second-person masculine singular non-past active jussive
   2. third-person feminine singular non-past active jussive

• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 214
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• Freytag, Georg (1830) “ترف”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 190
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From Arabic تَرِف (tarif).

ترف • (tərf)

1. (derogatory) a spoiled and/or effeminate person.

   Antonym: زِلِم

Cognate with Parthian 𐫤𐫜𐫡 (tfr /⁠tafr⁠/, “cheese”), from Proto-Iranian *tr̥práh.

• ترپک (tarpak), ترپه (tarpe), ترپ (tarp)

• IPA^(key):

ترف • (tarf)

1. (archaic, dialectal) qurut, kashk, black kashk

ترف • (turf)

1. (Dari, dialectal) alternative form of ترب (torob, “radish”)