Arabic-L:LING:Ta'nafa Conclusion

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1) Subject:Ta'nafa is really Ta'ifa
2) Subject:Ta'nafa response

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Date:  08 Jul 2002
From:"Schub, Michael" <michael.schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject:Ta'nafa is really Taa'ifa
Dear Friends,

      Thank you for your help with  */Ta'nafah/, which appears toward the
end of page 150, Vol. I of M. A. F. Ibrahim's recent (?) edition of
Suyuti's  *Itqaan.* (Cairo)
      I have finally gotten off my duff (a type of tambourine I sit
on next to my laurels), and checked the 1951 Cairo edition (p. 52 mid),
and it has the correct  /Ta'ifah/ in place of the misprint above.
      Best wishes,
                                       Mike Schub (De los reyes taifas.)

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1)
Date:  08 Jul 2002
From:Michel Naggar <mnaggar at sympatico.ca>
Subject:Ta'nafa response

As Nagwa Hedayat wrote, it is indeed to look down on something and reject
it.
The stem is surely ANF=nose. One usually looks down upon something,
manifesting a mild disgust or disdain, by raising one's nose as if to
avoid
a foul smell. Curiously, one would say in French: lever le nez!

We also have the verse of (was it Al Nabigha) who said praising the
Ghassanides: Shummu-L unufi mina-L tirazi_L awwali.

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