ظرفية

See also: طرق and ظرف

Arabic

Root
ظ ر ف (ẓ-r-f)

Etymology

Relative noun (nisba) composed of ظَرْف (ẓarf, “container”) +‎ ـِيَّة (-iyya).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ðˤar.fij.ja/

Noun

ظَرْفِيَّة • (ẓarfiyya) f

1. (Arabic grammar) The quality of denoting place or time, adverbially, by a noun, implying the meaning of the preposition فِي (fī); and also, according to some, by a noun together with that preposition.

Declension

Declension of noun ظَرْفِيَّة (ẓarfiyya)

Singular	singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	ظَرْفِيَّة ẓarfiyya	الظَّرْفِيَّة aẓ-ẓarfiyya	ظَرْفِيَّة ẓarfiyyat
Nominative	ظَرْفِيَّةٌ ẓarfiyyatun	الظَّرْفِيَّةُ aẓ-ẓarfiyyatu	ظَرْفِيَّةُ ẓarfiyyatu
Accusative	ظَرْفِيَّةً ẓarfiyyatan	الظَّرْفِيَّةَ aẓ-ẓarfiyyata	ظَرْفِيَّةَ ẓarfiyyata
Genitive	ظَرْفِيَّةٍ ẓarfiyyatin	الظَّرْفِيَّةِ aẓ-ẓarfiyyati	ظَرْفِيَّةِ ẓarfiyyati

References

• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ظَرْفِيَّةُ”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[1], London: Williams & Norgate, page 1911
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ظرفية”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[2] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 800