(ن) طَافَ يَطُوْفُ طَوْفًا وَطَوَافًاṭāfa yaṭūfu ṭawfan wa-ṭawāfan (original form: طَوَفَṭawafa): to go around; to circle about.
طَائِفَةṭāʾifah (feminine active participle, ism fāʿil): group, band — so named because they gather around one place.
طَائِفṭāʾif: one who goes around; also the calamity that encompasses by night.
طَوَّافṭawwāf pl. طَوَّافُوْنṭawwāfūn (intensive form, ṣīghat al-mubālaghah): one who constantly comes and goes; the Quran uses this very word for servants.
طُوْفَانṭūfān: the flood or calamity that encompasses on every side.
Form V (tafaʿʿul) تَطَوَّفَtaṭawwafa ⟵ اِطَّوَّفَiṭṭawwafa (the tāʾ assimilated into the ṭāʾ): to perform the circumambulation (ṭawāf). 41 times in the Quran: ﴿فَلَا جُنَاحَ عَلَيْهِ أَنْ يَّطَّوَّفَ بِهِمَا﴾ (Al-Baqarah 2:158) and ﴿طَوَّافُوْنَ عَلَيْكُمْ بَعْضُكُمْ عَلٰى بَعْضٍ﴾ (An-Nūr 24:58).
يُطَافُyuṭāfu (passive imperfect, muḍāriʿ majhūl): to be carried around, to be passed around.
طَائِفٌṭāʾif, with its basic sense, occurs in various meanings: (1) a thought circling in the mind, a whispering suggestion (2) a calamity that comes round upon a person (3) one performing the circumambulation.
طَائِفَةٌṭāʾifah is used mostly for a small group within a larger body.
طُوْفَانṭūfān (intensive form (ṣīghat al-mubālaghah) on the pattern of فُعْلَانfuʿlān) mostly denotes an extremely violent wind and rain, a cyclone.