ت • ف • ح

[He gave him an apple]. You say, أَتْحَفَكَ مَنْ أَتْفَحَكَ [He makes a present to thee who gives thee an apple]. (A: there immediately following the saying, فُلَانٌ تُحْفَتُهُ تُفَّاحَةٌ.)

A place where apples grow (L, K) in abundance. (L.)

A sweet odour. (Abu-l-Khattáb, L.)

, of the measure فُعَّالٌ; an Arabic word; [not arabicized;] (Msb;) [The apple, or apples;] a certain fruit, (L, Msb,) well known, (S, L, Msb, K,) plentiful in [the cooler parts of] the land of the Arabs: (AHn, TA:) the word is said by Abu-l-Khattáb to be derived from تَفْحَةٌ “ a sweet odour: ” (L:) the n. un. is with ة: (S, L, Msb:) the pl. is تَفَافِيحُ: (T:) and the dim. of the n. un. is ↓ تُفَيْفيحَةٌ. (L.) You say, فُلَانٌ تُحْفَتُهُ تُفَّاحَةٌ [Such a one, his present is an apple]. (A.) تُفَّاحُ الحُبِّ and تُفَّاحٌ ذَهَبِىٌّ: see بَاذَنْجَانٌ. تُفَّاحُ البَرِّ: see يَبْرُوحٌ, in art. برح. التُّفَّاحَةُ also signifies (tropical:) The head of the thigh-bone, which is in the haunch-bone. (Kr, A, K.) لَطَمْنَ بِالعُنَّابِ التُّفَّاحَ [lit. They (women) slapped, with the jujubes, the apples] means, (tropical:) with the fingers, or the ends of the fingers, the cheeks. (A.)