Arabic dictionary
Dictionary Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane (d. 1876)
Entry قرف
3 قَارَفَهُ He was, or became, near to it; meaning some base thing, or the like. (TA.) See قَرَفٌ.
قَرَفٌ The mixing with others; [and particularly with others who are diseased or the like]; a subst. from ↓ مُقَارَفَةٌ: (K:) the being near to [a person, or persons, or a place, infected with] disease: (S, TA:) the being near to pestilence, or epidemic disease. (T in art. تلف.) See تَلَفٌ.
أَعْرَضَتِ القِرْفَةُ signifies إِتَّسَعَتْ: (TA, art. عرض:) and اِتَّسَعَتْ قِرْفَتُهُ signifies كَثُرَ مَنْ يَتَّهِمُهُ. (TA, art. لبس.) See voce عَرُضَ.
مَقْرِفٌ A place of paring off: see an ex. voce صَمْغٌ.
E.W. Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (8 parts, London, 1863-93) is a major Arabic-English dictionary based on 112 sources, mostly medieval ones, along with al-Zabidi's Taj al-Aroos (also included in Lisaan.net). Lane died before he could finish the work, his great-nephew Stanley Lane-Poole finished it, publishing Volumes VI, VII and VIII from 1877–1893 using Lane's incomplete notes. Lane-Pool's work is of lower quality than Lane's. The work of Reinhart Dozy (see below) was meant as a supplement to Lane's work that covers modern Arabic (Lane focused on classical Arabic only). The digital text for the Lexicon was sourced from Tufts University under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License. We used a TXT version created by an internet user named Navid-ul-Islam. Lisaan.net's version of the Lane Lexicon corrects various errors from both the Persues project (such as erroneous transcriptions of the Persian letter ژ) and the TXT version. Lisaan.net's version also provides helpful automatic annotations on the various abbreviations used by Lane.
