ق ط ف

Arabic

Root

ق ط ف • (q-ṭ-f)

1. related to plucking

Derived terms

Verbs

• Form I: قَطَفَ (qaṭafa, “to pluck”)
  • Verbal noun: قَطْف (qaṭf), قُطُوف (quṭūf)
  • Active participle: قَاطِف (qāṭif)
  • Passive participle: مَقْطُوف (maqṭūf)
• Form II: قَطَّفَ (qaṭṭafa, “to pluck”)
  • Verbal noun: تَقْطِيف (taqṭīf)
  • Active participle: مُقَطِّف (muqaṭṭif)
  • Passive participle: مُقَطَّف (muqaṭṭaf)
• Form IV: أَقْطَفَ (ʔaqṭafa)
  • Verbal noun: إِقْطَاف (ʔiqṭāf)
  • Active participle: مُقْطِف (muqṭif)
  • Passive participle: مُقْطَف (muqṭaf)
• Form VIII: اِقْتَطَفَ (iqtaṭafa, “to pick out”)
  • Verbal noun: اِقْتِطَاف (iqtiṭāf)
  • Active participle: مُقْتَطِف (muqtaṭif)
  • Passive participle: مُقْتَطَف (muqtaṭaf)

Nouns

• قَطْف (qaṭf, “scratch”); pl. قُطُوف (quṭūf)
• قِطْف (qiṭf, “grape”); pl. قُطُوف (quṭūf)
• قَطَّاف (qaṭṭāf, “plucker”)
• قِطَاف (qiṭāf, “time of plucking”)
• قَطِيفَة (qaṭīfa, “satin, velvet”)
• مِقْطَف (miqṭaf, “basket; scissors”) and مَقْطَف (maqṭaf, “basket”); pl. مَقَاطِف (maqāṭif)

Proper nouns

• اَلْقَطِيف (al-qaṭīf, “Qatif, Saudi Arabia”)

Adjectives

• أَقْطَف (ʔaqṭaf, “plucking much”)
• قَطُوف (qaṭūf, “slow”)

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 1044–1045
• Freytag, Georg (1835) “ق ط 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, page 468
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ق ط ف”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[2] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1043