ء ف ك

Arabic

Etymology

Cognate to Aramaic ה־פ־כ / ܗ-ܦ-ܟ (h-p-k) where in particular ܗܦܰܟ݂ (hp̄aḵ, “to turn, to revert, to change etc.; to be converted; to be perverted, to renege”)

Root

ء ف ك • (ʔ f k)

1. related to lies

Derived terms

• Form I: أَفَكَ (ʔafaka, “to change one’s state; to turn away or back, to convert or pervert; to beguile, to delude, to lie to”)
  • Verbal noun: أَفْك (ʔafk), إِفْك (ʔifk), أُفُوك (ʔufūk)
  • Active participle: آفِك (ʔāfik)
  • Passive participle: مَأْفُوك (maʔfūk)
• Form I: أَفِكَ (ʔafika, “to lie”)
  • Verbal noun: أَفَك (ʔafak)
  • Active participle: ?
  • Passive participle: مَأْفُوك (maʔfūk)
• Form II: أَفَّكَ (ʔaffaka, “to lie”)
  • Verbal noun: تَأْفِيك (taʔfīk)
  • Active participle: مُؤَفِّك (muʔaffik)
  • Passive participle: مُؤَفَّك (muʔaffak)
• Form VIII: اِئْتَفَكَ (iʔtafaka, “to become subverted or submerged”)
  • Verbal noun: اِئْتِفَاك (iʔtifāk)
  • Active participle: مُؤْتَفِك (muʔtafik)

• إِفْك (ʔifk, “lie”)
• أَفِيكَة (ʔafīka, “a lie; a distressing calamity”)
• أَفَّاك (ʔaffāk, “liar”)
• أَفِيك (ʔafīk, “one who is deluded, one who lacks prudence”)
• آفِكَة (ʔāfika, “a punishment sent by God whereby the dwellings are overturned”)

References

• “hpk”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• 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 58
• Freytag, Georg (1830) “ء ف ك”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 44
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ء ف ك”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[2], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 69b–70a
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “ء ف ك”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 25a
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (2020) “ء ف ك”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 6th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 22a