ثفى doesn't appear in Hans Wehr's Modern Standard Arabic dictionary, but Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon has 2 entries for it, distinguished by diacritics. Select one below for the full classical Arabic definition.

• ثَفَاهُ Form 1

  1 ثَفَاهُ ثفاه ثفاة , aor. ثَفِىَ (M, K) and ثَفُىَ , (K,) He followed him; (M, K;) as also أَثَفَهُ: or he was with him, near after him, or at his heels, as though treading in his footsteps: (TA:) or ثَفَوْتُ الرَّجُلَ …

  View in Lane's Lexicon →

• ثفّى Form 2

  2 ثفّى القِدْرَ ثفي القدر , (S, M, K, [in the CK, the verb is erroneously without teshdeed,]) He put the cooking-pot upon the أَثَافِى [pl. of أُثْفِيَّةٌ, q. v.]; (S, M, K; *) as also ; (M, K;) and اثّفها, (K,) inf. n. …

  View in Lane's Lexicon →