Muṭarrif
مطرّف
Say it mu-TAR-rif
Defender of the flank
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- ṭ-r-f
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Mutarrif
Meaning & source
One who fights at the outer edge of his people: Lisān: “and by it the man is named Muṭarrif”.
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ابْنُ سِيدَهْ: وطَرَّفَ حَوْلَ الْقَوْمِ قاتَل عَلَى أَقصاهم وَنَاحِيَتِهِمْ، وَبِهِ سُمِّيَ الرَّجُلُ مُطَرِّفاً.
Who carried this name
- Muṭarrif ibn Buhṣul Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 8031 (vol. 6, p. 100)
- Muṭarrif ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Shikhkhīr of Basra al-Dhahabī, Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ, no. 77 (vol. 4, p. 187)