تفرس

Arabic

Root
ف ر س (f-r-s)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ta.far.ra.sa/

Verb

تَفَرَّسَ • (tafarrasa) V, non-past يَتَفَرَّسُ‎ (yatafarrasu)

  1. to stare at, to gaze upon
  2. to look through, to scan, to examine thoroughly
Conjugation

Etymology 2

Verbal noun of تَفَرَّسَ (tafarrasa).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ta.far.rus/

Noun

تَفَرُّس • (tafarrus) m (plural تَفَرُّسَات (tafarrusāt))

  1. verbal noun of تَفَرَّسَ (tafarrasa) (form V)
  2. perceiving by mental acumen, detecting by sagacity
  3. perspicacity, shrewdness
  4. pretending to be a good horseman
Declension
Derived terms
  • تَفَرُّسِيّ (tafarrusiyy, related to scanning)
Descendants
  • Azerbaijani: təfərrüs
  • Ottoman Turkish: تفرس (teferrüs)
  • Persian: تفرس

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1835) “تفرس”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 331
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “تفرس”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 953
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