ق ف و
Arabic
Etymology
Compare ق و ف (q-w-f).
Derived terms
- Form I: قَفَا (qafā, “to go behind, to follow the track of, to persecute”)
- Verbal noun: قَفْو (qafw), قُفُوّ (qufuww)
- Active participle: قَافٍ (qāfin)
- Passive participle: مَقْفُوّ (maqfuww)
- Form I: قَفَى (qafā, “to beat on the kack part of the head”)
- Form II: قَفَّى (qaffā, “to bit to follow; to make rhyme”)
- Verbal noun: تَقْفِيَة (taqfiya)
- Active participle: مُقَفٍّ (muqaffin)
- Passive participle: مُقَفًّى (muqaffan)
- Form IV: أَقْفَى (ʔaqfā, “to cause to follow; to attribute or distribute to; to honour by bestowing; to prefer”)
- Verbal noun: إِقْفَاء (ʔiqfāʔ)
- Active participle: مُقْفٍ (muqfin)
- Passive participle: مُقْفًى (muqfan)
- Form V: تَقَفَّى (taqaffā, “to follow the track of; to receive with distinction; to beat with a rod”)
- Verbal noun: تَقَفٍّ (taqaffin)
- Active participle: مُتَقَفٍّ (mutaqaffin)
- Passive participle: مُتَقَفًّى (mutaqaffan)
- Form VIII: اِقْتَفَى (iqtafā, “to follow in the tracks of (literally and idiomatically)”)
- Verbal noun: اِقْتِفَاء (iqtifāʔ)
- Active participle: مُقْتَفٍ (muqtafin)
- Passive participle: مُقْتَفًى (muqtafan)
- Form X: اِسْتَقْفَى (istaqfā, “to beat on the neck”)
- Verbal noun: اِسْتِقْفَاء (istiqfāʔ)
- Active participle: مُسْتَقْفٍ (mustaqfin)
- Passive participle: مُسْتَقْفًى (mustaqfan)
- قَفًا (qafan, “niddick, nape of the neck”)
- قَفِيّ (qafiyy, “who follows on the traces of someone else; who receives his visitors with much distinction; repast wherewith one treats someone with distinction; suspicion, accusation, crime; having been hit on the nape of the neck”)
- قُفْيَة (qufya, “pit a trapper graves to catch a lion”)
- قَفِيَّة (qafiyya, “feminine of قَفِيّ (qafiyy, “who follows; hit on the nape”); superiority wherewith one follows”)
- قَافِيَة (qāfiya, “nape; rhyme”)
- قَفَاوَة (qafāwa, “distinction wherewith one excells”)
Further reading
- Freytag, Georg (1835) “ق ف و”, 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, pages 482-482
- Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ق ف و”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, pages 792–793
- Lane, Edward William (1863) “ق ف و”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2991c–2992a
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ق ف و”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 850
- Wehr, Hans (1979) “ق ف و”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 91
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