کف
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Khalaj
[edit]Noun
[edit]کَم (kəm) (definite accusative کَمی, plural کَملَر)
Declension
[edit]Declension of کف
Persian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [kaf]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [kʰʲæf]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [kʰäf]
Readings | |
---|---|
Classical reading? | kaf |
Dari reading? | kaf |
Iranian reading? | kaf |
Tajik reading? | kaf |
Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (kp /kaf/, “foam, slime”); compare Proto-Indo-Iranian *kapʰas (“phlegm, mucus”). Cognate with Khotanese khavä (“foam”), etc.
Noun
[edit]کف • (kaf) (plural کفها (kaf-hâ))
- foam
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 2676:
- حلم ایشان کف بحر حلم ماست / کف رود آید ولی دریا به جاست
- hilm-êšân kaf-i-bahr-i-hilm-i-mâ / kaf rawad âyad wali dariyâ ba jâ-st
- Their clemency is (but) the foam of the sea of My clemency: the foam comes and goes, but the sea is (always) there.
- froth
Derived terms
[edit]- کف کردن (kaf kardan)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “kaf”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 48
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]کف • (kaf) (plural کفها (kaf-hâ))
Derived terms
[edit]- کف زدن (kaf zadan)
Descendants
[edit]- → Khalaj: kəf