طيفور

See also: طیفور

Arabic

طيفور أندلسي

Alternative forms

• (tray): طَيْفُورِيَّة (ṭayfūriyya); in Saudi-Arabia currently طُوفِرِيَّة (ṭūfiriyya)

Etymology

From the root ط ف ر (ṭ-f-r) related to jumping, for the bird. The origin of the name for the tray is hitherto unexplained. It may be accounted that the ship-name طَيْفُورِيَّة (ṭayfūriyya) is derived from the bird-name as ships are commonly likened to birds and then from the ship-name comes the tray-name طَيْفُورِيَّة (ṭayfūriyya) because the equating of ships with bowls was ubiquitous in the Middle Ages, and after that the form طَيْفُور (ṭayfūr) in the sense of a tray was back-formed from طَيْفُورِيَّة (ṭayfūriyya) by force of its tediousness in familiar life. However it also matches with Persian تفور (tafur, “clay; earthenware”), Old Armenian թափուր (tʻapʻur, “wooden tray”), the same way that Arabic تَيْغَار (tayḡār, “a large pot”) corresponds via Aramaic to Persian تغار (tağâr, “tub, through”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tˤaj.fuːr/
  • (Morocco) IPA^(key): /tˤaj.fuːr/, /tˤiː.fuːr/

Noun

طَيْفُور • (ṭayfūr) m (plural طَيَافِير (ṭayāfīr) or طَوَافِير (ṭawāfīr))

1. (obsolete) a small jumping bird
2. (archaic, except in Morocco and Saudi-Arabia) a large round plate or tray, such as used as a table for preparing harissa or eating on the ground

Declension

Declension of noun طَيْفُور (ṭayfūr)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	طَيْفُور ṭayfūr	الطَّيْفُور aṭ-ṭayfūr	طَيْفُور ṭayfūr
Nominative	طَيْفُورٌ ṭayfūrun	الطَّيْفُورُ aṭ-ṭayfūru	طَيْفُورُ ṭayfūru
Accusative	طَيْفُورًا ṭayfūran	الطَّيْفُورَ aṭ-ṭayfūra	طَيْفُورَ ṭayfūra
Genitive	طَيْفُورٍ ṭayfūrin	الطَّيْفُورِ aṭ-ṭayfūri	طَيْفُورِ ṭayfūri
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	طَيْفُورَيْن ṭayfūrayn	الطَّيْفُورَيْن aṭ-ṭayfūrayn	طَيْفُورَيْ ṭayfūray
Nominative	طَيْفُورَانِ ṭayfūrāni	الطَّيْفُورَانِ aṭ-ṭayfūrāni	طَيْفُورَا ṭayfūrā
Accusative	طَيْفُورَيْنِ ṭayfūrayni	الطَّيْفُورَيْنِ aṭ-ṭayfūrayni	طَيْفُورَيْ ṭayfūray
Genitive	طَيْفُورَيْنِ ṭayfūrayni	الطَّيْفُورَيْنِ aṭ-ṭayfūrayni	طَيْفُورَيْ ṭayfūray
Plural	basic broken plural diptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	طَيَافِير‎; طَوَافِير ṭayāfīr‎; ṭawāfīr	الطَّيَافِير‎; الطَّوَافِير aṭ-ṭayāfīr‎; aṭ-ṭawāfīr	طَيَافِير‎; طَوَافِير ṭayāfīr‎; ṭawāfīr
Nominative	طَيَافِيرُ‎; طَوَافِيرُ ṭayāfīru‎; ṭawāfīru	الطَّيَافِيرُ‎; الطَّوَافِيرُ aṭ-ṭayāfīru‎; aṭ-ṭawāfīru	طَيَافِيرُ‎; طَوَافِيرُ ṭayāfīru‎; ṭawāfīru
Accusative	طَيَافِيرَ‎; طَوَافِيرَ ṭayāfīra‎; ṭawāfīra	الطَّيَافِيرَ‎; الطَّوَافِيرَ aṭ-ṭayāfīra‎; aṭ-ṭawāfīra	طَيَافِيرَ‎; طَوَافِيرَ ṭayāfīra‎; ṭawāfīra
Genitive	طَيَافِيرَ‎; طَوَافِيرَ ṭayāfīra‎; ṭawāfīra	الطَّيَافِيرِ‎; الطَّوَافِيرِ aṭ-ṭayāfīri‎; aṭ-ṭawāfīri	طَيَافِيرِ‎; طَوَافِيرِ ṭayāfīri‎; ṭawāfīri

Descendants

• → Spanish: ataifor

References

• Behnstedt, Peter, Woidich, Manfred (2012) Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte – Band II: Materielle Kultur (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 100/II) (in German), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 142b
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “طيفور”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 48
• Heath, Jeffrey (2013) Jewish and Muslim Dialects of Moroccan Arabic, London: Routledge, →ISBN, pages 111 and 303