ل ف ف

Arabic

Etymology

Compare ل ف ت (l-f-t).

Root

ل ف ف • (l-f-f)

1. related to turning around

Derived terms

• Form I: لَفَّ (laffa, “to coil, to curl, to convolute, to spool, to twirl; to wrap, to envelop, to surround; to turn around, to circumgyrate, to make a roundabout, to be around”)
  • Verbal noun: لَفّ (laff)
  • Active participle: لَافّ (lāff)
  • Passive participle: مَلْفُوف (malfūf)
• Form II: لَفَّفَ (laffafa, “to wrap, to envelop, to surround”)
  • Verbal noun: تَلْفِيف (talfīf)
  • Active participle: مُلَفِّف (mulaffif)
  • Passive participle: مُلَفَّف (mulaffaf)
• Form IV: أَلَفَّ (ʔalaffa, “to roll up, to involve”)
  • Verbal noun: إِلْفَاف (ʔilfāf)
  • Active participle: مُلِفّ (muliff)
  • Passive participle: مُلَفّ (mulaff)
• Form V: تَلَفَّفَ (talaffafa, “to be wrapped, to wrap oneself”)
  • Verbal noun: تَلَفُّف (talaffuf)
  • Active participle: مُتَلَفِّف (mutalaffif)
• Form VIII: اِلْتَفَّ (iltaffa, “to squirm, to wind oneself; to wind, to bend, to inflect”)
  • Verbal noun: اِلْتِفَاف (iltifāf)
  • Active participle: مُلْتَفّ (multaff)
  • Passive participle: مُلْتَفّ (multaff)

• لِفَافَة (lifāfa, “swaddling, wrap”)
• لَفِيفَة (lafīfa, “swaddling, wrap”)
• لُوف (lūf, “fibre, sponge”)
• لِيف (līf, “fibre, sponge”)
• مِلَفّ (milaff, “file”)
• مِلَفَّة (milaffa, “file, chart”)
• مِلْفَاف (milfāf, “covering, wrapping”)
• مَلْفُوف (malfūf, “cabbage”)
• لَفِيف (lafīf, “collected; group”)
• أَلَفّ (ʔalaff, “grave in stature, of a lingering figure, gross”)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1837) “ل 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 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 114–115
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ل ف ف”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[2] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 1158–1159