ترف

Meaning

Verb

to live in luxury

Noun

1. (form-of, noun-from-verb) verbal noun of تَرِفَ (tarifa) (form I)
2. luxury, opulence, affluence
3. effemination

Adj

1. (obsolete) luxurious, opulent, delicate
2. (obsolete) effeminate

Concepts

luxury

wealth

opulence

extravagance

lavishness

luxe

luxurious

luxuriousness

opulent

plenty

profuseness

profusion

sumptuousness

live in luxury

abundance

surround with luxury

affluence

effeminate

Synonyms

السخاء

ثروة

جدة

غنى

فخامة

رغد

عمران

وفرة

تبذير

رفاهية

إسراف

ثراء

رفاهِيّة

بذْخ

رغادة

Translations

luxe

luxo

lusso

πολυτέλεια

Luxus

luxus

lujo

luxe

richesse

sontuosità

magnificenza

luxe

luxe

somptuosité

Etymology

Probably from Aramaic תרף / ܬܪܦ (trap̄). Its meanings “to sink in, to disappear; to be or become soft, to become digested or dissolved; to perish, to become ruined” are apparently from a basic meaning “to remain behind” as evidenced by South Semitic languages, widely used in Ethiopian Semitic, Ge'ez ተርፈ (tärfä), ተረፈ (täräfä) as ”to be left behind” and then from “to be left over” “to be excessive, to be superfluous”, Sabaean 𐩩𐩧𐩰 (trf, “to be left over, to remain, to be residual”), and in the other direction Soqotri terof (“to be in good health”). Surely an ancient agglutination of feminine or reflexive prefix to a stem equivalent to that of رَفَّ (raffa, “to flutter; to flare”), thence also causative رَفَأَ (rafaʔa, “to patch, to apply something on top to fix; to leave (the ship) behind, to dock”).