ق ح ف

Arabic

Etymology

Denominal of قِحْف (qiḥf).

Root

ق ح ف • (q-ḥ-f)

1. related to the brainpan

Derived terms

• Form I: قَحَفَ (qaḥafa, “to hit the cranium; to gulp, to swallow, to bolt”)
  • Verbal noun: قَحْف (qaḥf)
  • Active participle: قَاحِف (qāḥif)
  • Passive participle: مَقْحُوف (maqḥūf)
• Form VIII: اِقْتَحَفَ (iqtaḥafa, “to gulp, to swallow, to bolt; to empty, to drink out utterly”)
  • Verbal noun: اِقْتِحَاف (iqtiḥāf)
  • Active participle: مُقْتَحِف (muqtaḥif)
  • Passive participle: مُقْتَحَف (muqtaḥaf)

• قِحْف (qiḥf, “brainpan; pan, bowl”)

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, pages 1004–1005
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ق ح ف”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 310
• Freytag, Georg (1835) “ق ح ف”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 402
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ق ح ف”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[3], London: W.H. Allen, page 821
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ق ح ف”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1002