ش ر ف

See also: ش ر ق, and س ه م

Arabic

Root

ش ر ف • (š-r-f)

1. related to honor, nobility and height

Derived terms

Verbs and verbal derivatives

• Form I: شَرَفَ (šarafa, “to surpass in nobility or glory”)
  • Verbal noun: شَرْف (šarf)
  • Active participle: شَارِف (šārif)
  • Passive participle: مَشْرُوف (mašrūf)
• Form I: شَرُفَ (šarufa, “to be noble, illustrious, or high-ranking”)
  • Verbal noun: شَرَف (šaraf), شَرَافَة (šarāfa)
  • Passive participle: مَشْرُوف (mašrūf)
• Form II: شَرَّفَ (šarrafa, “to praise, ennoble, honour, homage, visit”)
  • Verbal noun: تَشْرِيف (tašrīf)
  • Active participle: مُشَرِّف (mušarrif, “honourable”)
  • Passive participle: مُشَرَّف (mušarraf)
• Form III: شَارَفَ (šārafa, “to vie with in eminence; to approach, to draw near to; to attain, to get possession of, to experience; to top over, to wield over, to dominate by one’s presence”)
  • Verbal noun: مُشارَفَة (mušārafa, “supervision, overview”)
  • Active participle: مُشَارِف (mušārif, “heights, hills, elevations”)
  • Passive participle: مُشَارَف (mušāraf)
• Form IV: أَشْرَفَ (ʔašrafa, “to raise oneself; to lean towards, to approach; to supervise, control”)
  • Verbal noun: إِشْرَاف (ʔišrāf)
  • Active participle: مُشْرِف (mušrif)
  • Passive participle: مُشْرَف (mušraf)
• Form V: تَشَرَّفَ (tašarrafa, “to be distinguished or ennobled”)
  • Verbal noun: تَشَرُّف (tašarruf)
  • Active participle: مُتَشَرِّف (mutašarrif)
  • Passive participle: مُتَشَرَّف (mutašarraf)
• Form VIII: اِشْتَرَفَ (ištarafa, “to raise oneself; to look up to or for”)
  • Verbal noun: اِشْتِرَاف (ištirāf)
  • Active participle: مُشْتَرِف (muštarif)
  • Passive participle: مُشْتَرَف (muštaraf)
• Form X: اِسْتَشْرَفَ (istašrafa, “to raise oneself; to look up to or for”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِشْرَاف (istišrāf)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَشْرِف (mustašrif)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَشْرَف (mustašraf)

Nouns and adjectives

• شَرَف (šaraf, “honour”)
• شَرَفِيّ (šarafiyy, “honourary”)
• مُشْرِف (mušrif, “supervisor, overseer; (Internet) moderator”)
• شَرِيف (šarīf, “noble, excellent”)
• تَشْرِيفَة (tašrīfa, “ceremony”)
• أَشْرَف (ʔašraf, “embattled, high, large”)
• شُرْفَة (šurfa, “honour, exaltation, distinction”)
• شُرَّافَة (šurrāfa, “crenel; balcony, vantage point, loge”), مُسْتَشْرَف (mustašraf, “balcony, vantage point, loge”)

References

• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, pages 703–704
• Corriente, Federico (2005) “ش ر ف”, in Diccionario avanzado árabe‎^[1] (in Spanish), 2nd edition, Barcelona: Herder, page 596
• Freytag, Georg (1833) “ش ر ف”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 413–414
• Golius, Jacob (1653) “ش ر ف”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum, contextum ex probatioribus orientis lexicographis‎^[3] (in Latin), Leiden: Bonaventura & Abraham Elzevir, columns 1273–1274
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ش ر ف”, 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^[4] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 1218–1220
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ش ر ف”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[5], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1536–1539
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (2020) “ش ر ف”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 6th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, pages 474–475