ق ف و

Arabic

Etymology

Compare ق و ف (q-w-f).

Root

ق ف و • (q-f-w)

1. related to following back

Derived terms

• Form I: قَفَا (qafā, “to go behind, to follow the track of, to persecute”)
  • Verbal noun: قَفْو (qafw), قُفُوّ (qufuww)
  • Active participle: قَافٍ (qāfin)
  • Passive participle: مَقْفُوّ (maqfuww)
• Form I: قَفَى (qafā, “to beat on the kack part of the head”)
  • Verbal noun: قَفْي (qafy)
  • Active participle: قَافٍ (qāfin)
  • Passive participle: مَقْفِيّ (maqfiyy)
• Form II: قَفَّى (qaffā, “to bit to follow; to make rhyme”)
  • Verbal noun: تَقْفِيَة (taqfiya)
  • Active participle: مُقَفٍّ (muqaffin)
  • Passive participle: مُقَفًّى (muqaffan)
• Form IV: أَقْفَى (ʔaqfā, “to cause to follow; to attribute or distribute to; to honour by bestowing; to prefer”)
  • Verbal noun: إِقْفَاء (ʔiqfāʔ)
  • Active participle: مُقْفٍ (muqfin)
  • Passive participle: مُقْفًى (muqfan)
• Form V: تَقَفَّى (taqaffā, “to follow the track of; to receive with distinction; to beat with a rod”)
  • Verbal noun: تَقَفٍّ (taqaffin)
  • Active participle: مُتَقَفٍّ (mutaqaffin)
  • Passive participle: مُتَقَفًّى (mutaqaffan)
• Form VIII: اِقْتَفَى (iqtafā, “to follow in the tracks of (literally and idiomatically)”)
  • Verbal noun: اِقْتِفَاء (iqtifāʔ)
  • Active participle: مُقْتَفٍ (muqtafin)
  • Passive participle: مُقْتَفًى (muqtafan)
• Form X: اِسْتَقْفَى (istaqfā, “to beat on the neck”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِقْفَاء (istiqfāʔ)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَقْفٍ (mustaqfin)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَقْفًى (mustaqfan)

• قَفًا (qafan, “niddick, nape of the neck”)
• قَفِيّ (qafiyy, “who follows on the traces of someone else; who receives his visitors with much distinction; repast wherewith one treats someone with distinction; suspicion, accusation, crime; having been hit on the nape of the neck”)
• قُفْيَة (qufya, “pit a trapper graves to catch a lion”)
• قَفِيَّة (qafiyya, “feminine of قَفِيّ (qafiyy, “who follows; hit on the nape”); superiority wherewith one follows”)
• قَافِيَة (qāfiya, “nape; rhyme”)
• قَفَاوَة (qafāwa, “distinction wherewith one excells”)

Further reading

• Freytag, Georg (1835) “ق 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 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 482-482
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ق 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^[2] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 792–793
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ق ف و”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[3], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2991c–2992a
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ق ف و”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[4], London: W.H. Allen, page 850
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “ق ف و”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 91