حفش

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Arabic[edit]

Root
ح ف ش (ḥ-f-š)

Etymology[edit]

The verb “to gather” is from Proto-Semitic *ḥapaś-. Cognate with Biblical Hebrew חָפַשׂ (ḥɔp̄aś, to search).

Verb[edit]

حَفَشَ (ḥafaša) I, non-past يَحْفِشُ‎ (yaḥfišu) (archaic)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to gather, to throng, to asport
    • c. 700, Al-Farazdaq, تضاحكت أن رأت شيبا تفرعني:
      […] الغَيْثِ يَحْفِشُ أَطْرَافَ الشَآبِيبِ كادَ الفُؤادُ تَطِيرُ الطّائِرَاتُ بِهِ مِنَ المَخافَةِ […]
      […] al-ḡayṯi yaḥfišu ʔaṭrāfa š-šaʔābībi kāda l-fuʔādu taṭīru ṭ-ṭāʔirātu bihi mina l-maḵāfati […]
      The rain gathers the ends of the showers like when birds fly in a heart from fright

Conjugation[edit]

Verb[edit]

حَفِشَ (ḥafiša) I, non-past يَحْفَشُ‎ (yaḥfašu) (obsolete)

  1. to have an ulcer at one side while being healthy on the other side (said of a camel’s hump)
  2. to rain vehemently

Conjugation[edit]

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Noun[edit]

حَفْش (ḥafšm (collective)

  1. verbal noun of حَفَشَ (ḥafaša) (form I)
  2. sturgeon

Declension[edit]

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Noun[edit]

حِفْش (ḥifšm (plural أَحْفَاش (ʔaḥfāš))

  1. a case for paraphernalia, box for utensils, receptacle wherein the apparatus of women is stored, or the like
  2. a small tent

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Adjective[edit]

حَفِش (ḥafiš) (obsolete)

  1. having an ulcer at one side while being healthy on the other side (said of a camel’s hump)

Declension[edit]

References[edit]

  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “حفش”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 304
  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “حفش”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[2] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 401–402
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “حفش”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[3], London: Williams & Norgate, page 601
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “حفش”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 272