راف

See also: رأف

Moroccan Arabic

Root
ر و ف
1 term

Etymology

From Arabic رَأَفَ (raʔafa).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /raːf/

Verb

راف • (rāf) I (non-past يروف (yrūf), active participle رايف (rāyif), passive participle مريوف (maryūf))

to have mercy, to be merciful, to be compassionate [+ على (object)] or [+ ب (object)]
Synonyms: شفق (šfaq), عطف (ʕṭaf)
to give money [+ على (object)] or [+ ب (object)]
Synonyms: دور (dawwar), عطى القهوة (ʕtā l-qahwa)

Conjugation

Conjugation of راف
		singular				plural
		1^st person	2^nd person	3^rd person		1^st person	2^nd person	3^rd person
past	m	رفت (ruft)	رفتي (rufti)	راف (rāf)		رفنا (rufna)	رفتوا (ruftu)	رافوا (rāfu)
past	f	رفت (ruft)	رفتي (rufti)	رافت (rāfet)		رفنا (rufna)	رفتوا (ruftu)	رافوا (rāfu)
non-past	m	نروف (nrūf)	تروف (trūf)	يروف (yrūf)		نروفوا (nrūfu)	تروفوا (trūfu)	يروفوا (yrūfu)
non-past	f	نروف (nrūf)	تروفي (trūfi)	تروف (trūf)		نروفوا (nrūfu)	تروفوا (trūfu)	يروفوا (yrūfu)
imperative	m		روف (rūf)				روفوا (rūfu)
imperative	f		روفي (rūfi)				روفوا (rūfu)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic رَفّ (raff, “shelf”).

Noun

راف • (raf)

shelf, ledge, each of the boards which form partitions in a cupboard

Derived terms

رافه قومق (rafa koymak, “to shelve”)

Descendants

Turkish: raf
→ Albanian: raft
→ Armenian: ըռաֆ (əṙaf), ռաֆ (ṙaf)
→ Bulgarian: рафт (raft)
→ Greek: ράφι (ráfi)
→ Romanian: raft
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic script: ра̏ф

Latin script: rȁf

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “raf1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3928
Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “راف”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 244a
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “راف”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 612
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pluteus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1310
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “راف”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2261
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “raf”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “راف”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 957

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