لف

laff (inf. n. of لفّ 'to fold, involve,' etc.), s.m. Involving, involution, folding, wrapping; complicating, complication; twisting; joining, adding (one thing to another); assembling, collecting; mixing, mingling:—laff-o-nashr, s.m. (in Rhet.) 'Collecting and scattering'; a figure corresponding to the Chiasmusof the classics. (The following are examples from Persian poetry: Ćūn jūd o jalāl o hunar o tab’o k ffi ū, Abr o falak o aḵẖtar o daryāmat̤ar nest, 'As (are) his generosity, majesty, skill, character, and liberal hand, The clouds, the firmament, the stars, the ocean, and the rain are not'; Jān o dil-ěwalīo ‘adawī-ětu roz-o-shab, Az wa’da-o waīd-ě-tu pur nūr o nār bād, 'May the soul and the heart of thy friend and of thy foe be ever, Full of light or of fire by thy promise or thy threat.' Examples from English poety are: 'Annual for me the grape, the rose renew, The juice nectarious, and the balmy dew' (Pope); 'An oven that is stopped or river stay`d, Burneth more hotly, swelleth with more rage' (Shakespeare).)