Appendix:Arabic roots/ف ي ء

Arabic

Etymology

Cognates with Ge'ez ፈየተ (fäyätä, “to plunder”) and Sabaean 𐩠𐩰𐩱 (hfʾ, “to take as loot”), derived from Proto-Semitic *piʔat- (“side; front”), taken as a place idiomatically exposed to the sun, a safe shade for people or things returned from a spoliation.

Root

ف ي ء • (f y ʔ)

1. related to returning
2. related to shading

Derived terms

• Form I: فَاءَ (fāʔa)
  • Verbal noun: فَيْء (fayʔ)
  • Active participle: فَاءٍ (fāʔin)
  • Passive participle: مَفِيء (mafīʔ)
• Form II: فَيَّأَ (fayyaʔa)
  • Verbal noun: تَفْيِيء (tafyīʔ)
  • Active participle: مُفَيِّئ (mufayyiʔ)
  • Passive participle: مُفَيَّأ (mufayyaʔ)
• Form IV: أَفَاءَ (ʔafāʔa)
  • Verbal noun: إِفَاءَة (ʔifāʔa)
  • Active participle: مُفِيء (mufīʔ)
  • Passive participle: مُفَاء (mufāʔ)
• Form V: تَفَيَّأَ (tafayyaʔa)
  • Verbal noun: تَفَيُّؤ (tafayyuʔ)
  • Active participle: مُتَفَيِّئ (mutafayyiʔ)
  • Passive participle: مُتَفَيَّأ (mutafayyaʔ)
• Form X: اِسْتَفَاءَ (istafāʔa)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِفَاءَة (istifāʔa)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَفِيء (mustafīʔ)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَفَاء (mustafāʔ)

References

• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 992
• Freytag, Georg (1835) “ف ي ء”, 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 384
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ف ي ء”, 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 651
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ف ي ء”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[3], London: Williams & Norgate, page 2467