عصف

Arabic

Root
ع ص ف (ʕ-ṣ-f)

Pronunciation

  • Verb: IPA(key): /ʕa.sˤa.fa/
  • Noun: IPA(key): /ʕasˤf/

Verb

عَصَفَ • (ʕaṣafa) I, non-past يَعْصِفُ‎ (yaʕṣifu)

  1. to blow, to blast, to gust
  2. (figurative) to ravage, to plague, to rupture on, to hit, to overtake
    • 2017 November 15, “روسيا تصف اتهامات مدريد لها بالتدخل في كاتالونيا بـ"الهستيريا"”, in Al-Quds, archived from the original on 15 November 2017:
      وزير الخارجية الروسي سيرغي لافروف رأى أن مدريد تحاول ابعاد الأنظار عن أسوأ أزمة سياسية تعصف باسبانيا منذ عقود.
      The Russian Minister of the Exterior Sergey Lavrov observed that Madrid tries to keep the spotlight aloof from the worst political crisis which has ruptured on her in decades [by claiming a Russian involvement in causing the Catalonia crisis].

Conjugation

Noun

عَصْف • (ʕaṣf) m

  1. verbal noun of عَصَفَ (ʕaṣafa) (form I)
  2. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 105:5:
      فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَّأْكُولٍ
      fajaʕalahum kaʕaṣfin mmaʔkūlin
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

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