طُّوفَان

TuwfaAnN * An overpowering rain: and overpowering water, [a meaning erroneously assigned in the CK to Taw~aAf instead of TuwfaAn ,] that covers [or overwhelms ] everything; (S, K, TA;) in the common conventional acceptation, water abounding to the utmost degree; [i. e. a flood, or deluge; ] such as befell the people of Noah; (TA;) or TuwfaAnu AlmaA='i signifies the water that covers [or overwhelms ] everything: (Msb:) and a drowning torrent: (K:) and (assumed tropical:) much of anything, [like as we say a flood of anything,] such as includes the generality of persons, or things, within its compass: (K, TA:) and particularly (assumed tropical:) death; or quick, or quick and wide-spreading, death; or death commonly, or generally, prevailing; (TA;) or quick, or quick and wide-spreading, death, commonly, or generally, prevailing: and (assumed tropical:) quick [ and extensive ] slaughter: (K:) and (assumed tropical:) any accident [or evil accident ] that besets a man: and (assumed tropical:) trial, or affliction: (TA:) and El-'Ajjáj likens to the rain, or water, thus called, the darkness of night; using the phrase TuwfaAnu AlZ~alaAmi ; (Kh, S;) by which he means (assumed tropical:) the intensity of the darkness of the night: (TA:) TuwfaAnN is said to be a pl. [or coll. gen. n.]; (Msb, TA;) and its sing. [or n. un.] is TuwfaAnapN , (S, Msb, K, TA,) accord. to analogy: (S:) thus says Akh: (S, TA:) or it is an inf. n., like rujoHaAnN and nuqoSaAnN ; and is from TaAfa , aor. yaTuwfu : (Msb, TA:) thus says Abu-l- 'Abbás; and he says that there is no need of seeking for it a sing.: some say that it is of the measure fuloEaAnN , from TafaA AlmaA='u , aor. yaTofuw , meaning “ the water rose, ” or “ became high; ” the l being transposed to the place of the E ; but this is strange. (TA.)