ه ي ف

Arabic

Root

ه ي ف • (h-y-f)

1. related to being parched

Derived terms

• Form I: هَافَ (hāfa, “to be scrawny; to run away”)
  • Verbal noun: هَيْف (hayf)
  • Active participle: هَائِف (hāʔif)
• Form I: هَافَ (hāfa, “to be scrawny”)
  • Verbal noun: هَيَف (hayaf)
  • Active participle: ?
• Form II: هَيَّفَ (hayyafa, “to be scrawny”)
  • Verbal noun: تَهْيِيف (tahyīf)
  • Active participle: مُهَيِّف (muhayyif)
• Form IV: أَهَافَ (ʔahāfa, “to have thirsty camels; to roast”)
  • Verbal noun: إِهَافَة (ʔihāfa)
  • Active participle: مُهِيف (muhīf)
  • Passive participle: مُهَاف (muhāf)
• Form VIII: اِهْتَافَ (ihtāfa, “to labour from thirst”)
  • Verbal noun: اِهْتِيَاف (ihtiyāf)
  • Active participle: مُهْتَاف (muhtāf)
  • Passive participle: مُهْتَاف (muhtāf)

• هَيْف f (hayf, “torrid wind”)
• أَهْيَف (ʔahyaf, “scrawny”)
• هَيُوف (hayūf, “consumed from thirst”)
• هَيْفَان (hayfān, “parched”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ه ي ف”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 775
• Freytag, Georg (1837) “ه ي ف”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 424
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ه ي 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^[3] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 1468