تعریف

ta`rīf[inf. n. ii of عرف 'to know'], s.f., lit. 'Making known'; explaining (a term, etc.), explanation; description; making determinate, defining, a definition; introduction (to a person); praising, praise, commendation;—a table of rates of export and import duties (hence the European 'tariff'):—ta`rīf karnā(-kī), To praise, etc.:—ta`rīfu`lmajhūl bi`l-majhūl, 'Explaining the unknown by the unknown,' explaining in terms as little understood as the thing intended to be explained.