غ ي ف

Arabic

Root

غ ي ف • (ḡ-y-f)

1. related to turning away

Derived terms

• Form I: غَافَ (ḡāfa, “to be inclined, to have the branches bent”)
  • Verbal noun: غَيَفَان (ḡayafān)
  • Active participle: ?
• Form II: غَيَّفَ (ḡayyafa, “to turn away, to draw back, to retreat”)
  • Verbal noun: تَغْيِيف (taḡyīf)
  • Active participle: مُغَيِّف (muḡayyif)
• Form IV: أَغَافَ (ʔaḡāfa, “to make bent, to incline”)
  • Verbal noun: إِغَافَة (ʔiḡāfa)
  • Active participle: مُغِيف (muḡīf)
  • Passive participle: مُغَاف (muḡāf)
• Form V: تَغَيَّفَ (taḡayyafa, “to be inclined, to have the branches bent; to incline onto one side while walking”)
  • Verbal noun: تَغَيُّف (taḡayyuf)
  • Active participle: مُتَغَيِّف (mutaḡayyif)

• غَاف (ḡāf, “Prosopis gen. et spp.”)
• غَيْف (ḡayf, “flock of birds”)
• أَغْيَف (ʔaḡyaf, “inclining, bent; supple”)
• غَيَّاف (ḡayyāf, “having a long beard”)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1835) “غ ي ف”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 306–307
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “غ ي ف”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[2], London: Williams & Norgate, page 2318
• Mandaville, James Paul (2011) Bedouin Ethnobotany. Plant Concepts and Uses in a Desert Pastoral World, Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 244