صوف

Arabic

Root
ص و ف (ṣ-w-f)

Pronunciation 1

  • (MSA) IPA(key): /sˤa.wi.fa/

Verb

صَوِفَ • (ṣawifa) I, non-past يَصْوَفُ‎ (yaṣwafu)

  1. (of sheep etc.) to produce wool, to increase its wool
Conjugation

Pronunciation 2

  • (MSA) IPA(key): /sˤaw.wa.fa/

Verb

صَوَّفَ • (ṣawwafa) II, non-past يُصَوِّفُ‎ (yuṣawwifu)

  1. (of sheep etc.) to produce wool, to increase its wool
  2. to make someone Sufi
  3. (of plants) to have cotton-like fungus (see the image)
  4. (intransitive) to decay (to have wool-like fungus)
Conjugation

Pronunciation 3

  • (Classical Arabic, MSA) IPA(key): /sˤuːf/
  • (Al-Andalus, Morocco) IPA(key): [sˤawf]
    (file)

Noun

صُوف • (ṣūf) m (collective, singulative صُوفَة f (ṣūfa), plural أَصْوَاف (ʔaṣwāf))

  1. wool
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Malay: suf
  • Swahili: sufi, sufu

Sindhi

Etymology

From Persian.

Noun

صوف • (sūfu) (Devanagari spelling सूफ़ु)

  1. apple
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