ق ف ف

Arabic

Etymology

Likely a variant of ج ف ف (j-f-f).

Root

ق ف ف • (q-f-f)

1. related to ruffling, shriveling

Derived terms

• Form I: قَفَّ (qaffa, “to ruffle, to shrivel”)
  • Verbal noun: قُفُوف (qufūf), فَفِيف (fafīf)
  • Active participle: قَافّ (qāff)
• Form IV: أَقَفَّ (ʔaqaffa, “to cease to procreate; to stop to have tears”)
  • Verbal noun: إِقْفَاف (ʔiqfāf)
  • Active participle: مُقِفّ (muqiff)
• Form X: اِسْتَقَفَّ (istaqaffa, “to be contracted and corrugated”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِقْفَاف (istiqfāf)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَقِفّ (mustaqiff)

• قُفّ (quff, “high and rugged ground”)
• قُفَّة (quffa, “fevery shiver, ague fit; dried cucumber”)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1835) “ق ف 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 478
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ق ف 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^[2] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 786
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ق ف ف”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[3], London: Williams & Norgate, page 2991
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ق ف ف”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[4], London: W.H. Allen, page 848
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “ق ف ف”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 914
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ق ف ف”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[5] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1046