ث ف ر

Arabic

Root

ث ف ر • (ṯ-f-r)

1. related to things behind

Derived terms

• Form II: ثَفَّرَ (ṯaffara, “to drive forward from behind”)
  • Verbal noun: تَثْفِير (taṯfīr)
  • Active participle: مُثَفِّر (muṯaffir)
  • Passive participle: مُثَفَّر (muṯaffar)
• Form IV: أَثْفَرَ (ʔaṯfara, “to drive forward from behind; to fasten a crupper upon; to show evidence of bringing forth”)
  • Verbal noun: إِثْفَار (ʔiṯfār)
  • Active participle: مُثْفِر (muṯfir)
  • Passive participle: مُثْفَر (muṯfar)
• Form X: اِسْتَثْفَرَ (istaṯfara, “to turn the extremity hanging behind through the thighs to the waist”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِثْفَار (istiṯfār)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَثْفِر (mustaṯfir)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَثْفَر (mustaṯfar)

• ثَفَر (ṯafar, “crupper”)
• ثَفْر (ṯafr), ثُفْر (ṯufr, “vulva of a beast of prey”)
• مِثْفَار (miṯfār, “beast that throws its saddle backwards; catamite”)
• ثُفْرُوق (ṯufrūq, “date petiole”)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1830) “ث ف ر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 220
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ث ف ر”, 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^[2] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 226–227
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ث ف ر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[3], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 339–340
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “ث ف ر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 124
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ث ف ر”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 153