ش ف و

Arabic

Etymology

From شَفَة (šafa, “lip; brink, border”).

Root

ش ف و • (š-f-w)

1. related to nearing the brink

Derived terms

• Form I: شَفَا (šafā, “to near setting (said of the Sun); to appear”)
  • Verbal noun: شَفًا (šafan)
  • Active participle: شَافٍ (šāfin)
• Form IV: أَشْفَى (ʔašfā, “to be or become on the brink of”)
  • Verbal noun: إِشْفَاء (ʔišfāʔ)
  • Active participle: مُشْفٍ (mušfin)
  • Passive participle: مُشْفًى (mušfan)

• شَفًا (šafan, “extremity or brink of a thing”)

Related terms

• ش ف ي (š-f-y)
• سَوْفَ (sawfa)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1833) “ش ف و”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 436b
• Haupt, Paul (1917) “Syriac sífṯâ, lip, and sáu̮pâ, end”, in Journal of the Society of Oriental Research‎^[2], volume 1, page 92
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ش ف و”, 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^[3] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 1251b
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ش ف و”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[4], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1574a–1575c