تلف
1 تَلِفَ, (
S,
M,
Msb,
K,)
aor. ـَ (
K,)
inf. n. تَلَفٌ, (
Lth,
T,
S,
M, &c.,) He, or it, (a thing,
Lth,
T,
S,
Msb, of any kind,
Lth,
T,) perished, passed away, was not, was no more, became nonexistent or annihilated; or went away, no one knew whither; or became in a bad, or corrupt, state; became corrupted, vitiated, marred, or spoiled; [in this sense the verb is often used in the present day;] or he died:
syn. هَلَكَ; (
M,
K;) and of the
inf. n., عَطَبٌ (
Lth,
T,) and هَلَاكٌ. (
Lth,
T,
S.) [See also
تَلَفٌ, below.]
4 ا
تلفــهُ He caused him, or it, (a thing,
S,
Msb, or property,
M,) to perish, pass away, or be no ore; or to go away, no one knew whither; or to become corrupted, vitiated, marred, or spoiled: (
S,
M:) or he made it (his property,
T) to pass away, come to an end, come to nought, or be exhausted; destroyed, wasted, consumed, or exhausted, it; (
T,
K;) by prodigality. (
T.) [See an
ex. in a verse of Ibn-Mukbil cited
voce أَخْلَفَ.]
b2: El-Farezdak says, وَقَوْمٍ كِرَامٍ قَدْ نَقَلْنَا إِلَيْهِمُ قِرَاهُمْ فَأَـ
ـتْلَفْــنَا المَنَايَا وَأَـ
ـتْلَفُــوا (so in the
T and
L,) or وَأَضْيَافِ لَيْلٍ قَدْ نَقَلْنَا قِرَاهُمُ
إِلَيْهِمْ وَأَـ
ـتْلَفْــنَا المَنَايَا وَأَـ
ـتْلَفُــوا (so in some copies of the
K,) or قَدْ بَلَغْنَا قِرَاهُمُ, (so in other copies of the
K and in the
TA,) or قد فَعَلْنَا قراهم, (so in the
O,) i. e., [
accord. to the different readings, How many a generous company of men has there been, or how many guests of the night have there been, to whom we have brought their entertainment, and] we have found the fates to be destructive, (
T,
K, *) and they have found them to be so: (
T:) it is like the phrase أَتَيْنَا فُلَانًا فَأَبْخَلْنَاهُ and أَجْبَنَّاهُ: (
TA:) or we found the fates to destroy us, and they found them to destroy them: or we made the fates to be destruction to them, and they made them to be destruction to us: (
ISk,
K:) he means, we engaged with them in vehement fight, and slew them. (
TA.)
تَلَفٌ A perishing, passing away, &c. [See 1.] (
Lth,
T,
S, &c.) It is said in a
trad., (
TA,) إِنَّ مِنَ القَرَفِ الـ
ـتَّلَفُ (
T,
TA) Verily, from the being near to pestilence, or epidemic disease, there results death, or perdition. (
T.) And in a
prov., السَّلَفُ
تَلَفٌ [The paying for a thing beforehand is a cause of perishing to one's property]. (
TA.) And one says, ذَهَبَتْ نَفْسُهُ
تَلَفًــا and طَلَفًا, (
S,
K,) both meaning the same, (
S,) His blood went for nothing, or as a thing of no account, unretaliated, and uncompensated by a mulct. (
S,
K.)
تَلِفٌ, (
M,) or ↓ تَالِفٌ, (
Msb,
TA,) part.
n. of 1, Perishing, &c.; (
M,
Msb, *
TA;) as also ↓
تَلْفَــانٌ, which is
post-classical. (
TA.)
تَلْفَــةٌ A [hill, mountain, or mass of rock, such as is termed] هَضْبَة, difficult of access, so that he who attempts it fears perdition, or death. (ElHejeree,
M.)
تَلْفَــانٌ: see
تَلِفٌ.
تَالفٌ: see
تَلِفٌ.
مَـ
ـتْلَفٌ A place of perishing or perdition: (
K:) a [desert such as is termed] مَفَازَة; (
S,
K;) because most of those who traverse it perish; and so ↓ مَـ
ـتْلَفَــةٌ; (
TA;) or the latter signifies a [desert such as is termed] قَفْر: (
M:) the
pl. of the former [or of both] is مَتَالِفُ. (
TA.) رَجُلٌ مُـ
ـتْلِفٌ لِمَالِهِ, (
Msb,) or ↓ رَجُلٌ مِـ
ـتْلَفٌ, and ↓ مِتْلَافٌ, (
M,) A man who destroys, or wastes, his property: (
M:) or the last has an intensive signification, (
Msb,) meaning who destroys, or wastes, his property much. (
S.) You say also, رَجُلٌ مُخْلِفٌ مُـ
ـتْلِفٌ, (
K, and
Har p. 312,) or ↓ مِخْلَفٌ مِـ
ـتْلَفٌ, (
TA in art. خلف,) and مِخْلَافٌ, ↓ مِتْلَافٌ, (
K, and
Har ubi suprà,) meaning A man of courage and liberality, who makes what he takes as spoil, of the property of his enemies, to supply the place of that which he consumes by expenditure to satisfy the claims of his friends. (
Har ubi suprà.) مِـ
ـتْلَفٌ: see the next preceding paragraph, in two places.
مَـ
ـتْلَفَــةٌ: see مَـ
ـتْلَفٌ.
b2: Also A deep hollow, cavity, or pit, where one looks down upon destruction. (
M.) مِتْلَافٌ: see مُـ
ـتْلِفٌ, in two places.
مَتْلُوفٌ [
i. q. مُنْكَرٌ,
q. v.; i. e.]
contr. of مَعْرُوفٌ: but this is
post-classical. (
TA.)
