Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

تُنَّفٌ, [a pl. of which the sing. is not mentioned,] applied to [deserts such as are termed] تَنَائِف, [pl. of تَنُوفَة,] meaning Of which the extremities are far apart; (Ibn-ʼAbbád, Ḳ;) wide, or spacious. (Ibn-ʼAbbád.)

تَنُوفَةٌ (T, Ṣ, M, Ḳ, &c.) andتَتُوفِيَّةٌ↓, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) like دَوٌّ and دَوِّيَّةٌ, the latter a rel. n. from the former, (Ṣ,) A [desert such as is termed] مَفَازَة: (T, Ṣ, Ḳ:) or a land such as is termed قَفْر [i. e. vacant, or void, or desert, destitute of vegetable produce and of water; or destitute of human beings, but sometimes containing a little herbage or pasturage]: (M:) or a wide, or spacious, land, of which the extremities are far apart: (El-Muärrij, Ḳ:) or a desert (فَلَاة) in which is no water nor any person to cheer one by his company, though it may have, or produce, herbage; (El-Muärrij, T;) so says ISh: (TA:) or a farextending desert, in which is a collection of herbage, but such as cannot be depastured because of its remoteness: (Aboo-Kheyreh, T:) pl. تَنَائِفُ. (T, M.)