تخفيف

Arabic

Root
خ ف ف (ḵ f f)
9 terms

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tax.fiːf/
• Rhymes: -iːf

Noun

تَخْفِيف • (taḵfīf) m

1. verbal noun of خَفَّفَ (ḵaffafa) (form II)
2. alleviation, mitigation, relief (sanction, sentence, burden, etc)
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:178:

     ذَٰلِكَ تَخْفِيفٌ مِنْ رَبِّكُمْ وَرَحْمَةٌ

     ḏālika taḵfīfun min rabbikum waraḥmatun

     This is a concession and a mercy from your Lord.

3. dilution
4. facilitation (making a process, etc easier)

Declension

Declension of noun تَخْفِيف (taḵfīf)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	تَخْفِيف taḵfīf	التَّخْفِيف at-taḵfīf	تَخْفِيف taḵfīf
Nominative	تَخْفِيفٌ taḵfīfun	التَّخْفِيفُ at-taḵfīfu	تَخْفِيفُ taḵfīfu
Accusative	تَخْفِيفًا taḵfīfan	التَّخْفِيفَ at-taḵfīfa	تَخْفِيفَ taḵfīfa
Genitive	تَخْفِيفٍ taḵfīfin	التَّخْفِيفِ at-taḵfīfi	تَخْفِيفِ taḵfīfi

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: təxfif
• → Persian: تخفیف
  • → Tajik: тахфиф (taxfif)
• → Ottoman Turkish: تخفیف
  • → Turkish: tahfif

References

• Baalbaki, Rohi (1995) “تخفيف”, in Al-Mawrid: A Modern Arabic-English Dictionary, 7th edition, Beirut: Dar El-Ilm Lilmalayin, →ISBN
• Баранов, Х. К. (2011) “تخفيف”, in Большой арабско-русский словарь (Bolʹšoj arabsko-russkij slovarʹ), 11th edition, Москва: Живой язык, →ISBN
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “تخفيف”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[1], London: Williams & Norgate
• Wehr, Hans (1960) “تخفيف”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz