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From Sanskrit रूप (rūpa). Cognate with Sinhalese රුප (rupa), රුව (ruwa), රු (ru). Doublet of ރޫ (rū) and ރޫހަ (rūha).
ރޫފަ • (rūfa) (plural ރޫފަތައް (rūfatak̊))
- form, shape, figure, appearance, semblance
- Hassan Ahmed Maniku (2000) “ރޫފަ”, in A Concise Etymological Vocabulary of Dhivehi Language, Colombo: The Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka, page 211