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تلف

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See also: تلق

Arabic

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Etymology 1.1

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Root
ت ل ف (t l f)
3 terms

Verb

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تَلِفَ (talifa) I (non-past يَتْلَفُ (yatlafu), verbal noun تَلَف (talaf))

  1. to perish, to become marred, to be spoiled, to suffer annihilation
    • c. 1200, يحيى بن محمد بن أحمد بن العوام [yaḥyā ibn muḥammad ibn ʔaḥmad ibn al-ʕawwām], edited by José Antonio Banqueri, كتاب الفلاحة [Book on Agriculture], volume 2, Madrid: Imprenta Real, published 1802IA, Cap. 33, Art. 10, page 677 line 6:
      وقد تخرج للدابة من حنكها ويسمي التحنيك وصفة العمل في ذلك إذا أحنكت الدابة فأفتح لها من الدرجة الثالثة والرابعة ولا تفتح لها قرب الباب لأن الدم ربما عسر إمساكه فتلف الدابة.
      One may extract the blood from the jaw of a beast and it is called taḥnīk and the operation consists in that you have bound the beast with a chinstrap and now cut it open to the third or fourth degree but don’t open it close the throat as it may be difficult to contain the blood and the beast will succumb.
Conjugation
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Etymology 1.2

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Verb

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تَلَّفَ (tallafa) II (non-past يُتَلِّفُ (yutallifu), verbal noun تَتْلِيف (tatlīf))

  1. to make perish, to spoil, to ruin, to destroy
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Etymology 1.3

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Noun

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تَلَف (talafm

  1. destruction
Declension
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Descendants
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  • Azerbaijani: tələf
  • Northern Kurdish: telef
  • Ottoman Turkish: تلف
  • Persian: تلف
  • Uzbek: talaf

Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

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  • Audio:(file)

Verb

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تلف (form IV)

  1. تُلْفِ (tulfi) /tul.fi/: inflection of أَلْفَى (ʔalfā):
    1. second-person masculine singular non-past active jussive
    2. third-person feminine singular non-past active jussive
  2. تُلْفَ (tulfa) /tul.fa/: inflection of أَلْفَى (ʔalfā):
    1. second-person masculine singular non-past passive jussive
    2. third-person feminine singular non-past passive jussive

References

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  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “تلف”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Moroccan Arabic

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Root
ت ل ف
1 term

Etymology 1

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From Arabic تَلَفَ (talafa).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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تلف (tlaf) I (non-past يتلف (yitlaf))

  1. to get lost
    تلفت فالمدينة القديمةtlaft f-le-mdīna le-qdīmaI got lost in the old part of the city.
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Etymology 2

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From Arabic تَلَّفَ (tallafa).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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تلف (tallaf) II (non-past يتلف (ytallaf))

  1. to cause to get lost, to make someone get lost
  2. to cause to lose focus
    تلفتيني من كترة الهدرة
    tallaftīni men katrat el-hadra
    I lost focus because of your excessive talking.
Conjugation
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    Conjugation of تلف
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
past m تلّفت (tallaft) تلّفتي (tallafti) تلّف (tallaf) تلّفنا (tallafna) تلّفتوا (tallaftu) تلّفوا (tallfu)
f تلّفت (tallfāt)
non-past m نتلّف (ntallaf) تتلّف (ttallaf) يتلّف (ytallaf) نتلّفوا (ntallfu) تتلّفوا (ttallfu) يتلّفوا (ytallfu)
f تتلّفي (ttallfi) تتلّف (ttallaf)
imperative m تلّف (tallaf) تلّفوا (tallfu)
f تلّفي (tallfi)

Etymology 3

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From Arabic تَلَف (talaf).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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تلف (talfm

  1. act of losing

Persian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic تَلَف (talaf).

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Readings
Classical reading? talaf
Dari reading? talaf
Iranian reading? talaf
Tajik reading? talaf

Noun

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Dari تلف
Iranian Persian
Tajik талаф

تلف (talaf) (plural تلفات (talafât))

  1. destruction, perishing, waste, death

Derived terms

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