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تَلَفَّ3َ see 8.

اِلْتَفَّ It (herbage) tangled; became confused, and caught, one part to another: (Msb:) or became luxuriant, or abundant; (S;) it (a collection of trees) became luxuriant, or abundant, and close together: (AHn:) [or thickly intermixed:] it (a thing) became collected together, and dense; (TA:) best rendered tangled, or luxuriant, or abundant and dense. ― -b2- اِلْتَفَّ and ↓ تَلْفَفَّ He wrapped, or enwrapped, himself in, or with, a garment; (KL, PS;) i. q. اِشْتَمَلَ . (Msb.) ― -b3- اِلْتَفَّ وَجْهُ الغُلَامِ means اِتَّصَلَتْ لِحْيَتُهُ [i. e. The face of the young man became continuous, or uninterrupted, in its beard]. (TA.) ― -b4- اِلْتَفَّ It (an affair) became complicated.

لَفٌّ ونَشْرٌ in rhetoric, [Complication and explication, involution and evolution; i. e., a construction in which two or more words are mentioned, and, after them, two or more other words, as epithets, &c., referring to the former. لفّ ونشر مُرَتَّبٌ , Involution and evolution regularly disposed, is when the order of the latter words agrees with that of those to which they refer. لفّ ونشر مَعْكُوسٌ , or مُشَوَّشٌ , Involved, or disordered, involution and evolution, is when the order of the latter words is contrary to that of those to which they refer]. (TA, passim.) See Har, p. 383.

لُفَّةٌ i. q. لُقْمَةٌ : see صُفَّةٌ , last sentence.

لَفَّا=ءُ A thick thigh: see a verse voce تَسَاهَمُوا .

فُلَانٌ مِنْ لَفِيفِنَا وَضَفِيفِنَا : see art. ضف .

لِفَافَةٌ A wrapper for the leg or foot &c. (S, K.) ― -b2- And A pericarp; a glume, and the like; an envelope: pl. لَفَايءِفُ .

لَفِيفَةٌ A lock ( خُصْلَةٌ ) of hair. (S, voce خُصْلَةٌ .)

نَاقَةٌ مُلَفَّفَةُ السَّنَامِ [A she-camel having the hump much enveloped with fur: see اِلْتَفَّ وجْهُ الغُلَامِ ]. (Ibn-'Abbád, O, K, voce عُلْفُوفٌ q. v.)

مُلْتَفُّ الخَلْقِ A man having a well-knit frame; compact in make. (L, art. مسد .)