حذف
Arabic
Etymology 1
Verb form I from the root ح ذ ف (ḥ-ḏ-f).
Verb
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- to shorten, clip, curtail with accusative or with مِنْ (min) and genitive
- to take away, cut or clip off, reduce
- to strike or cross out
- (grammar, phonology) to elide, apocopate, drop by apheresis
- (mathematics, accounting) to deduct, subtract
- (ditransitive) to throw with accusative and بِـ (bi-), pelt
- to throw away, discard with بِـ (bi-)
Conjugation
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Synonyms
- (elide): أَسْقَطَ (ʔasqaṭa)
Etymology 2
Verb form II from the root ح ذ ف (ḥ-ḏ-f).
Verb
حَذَّفَ • (ḥaḏḏafa) II (non-past يُحَذِّفُ (yuḥaḏḏifu), verbal noun تَحْذِيف (taḥḏīf))
- (transitive) to clip, trim
- (transitive) to give shape, to cut, clip, or trim into proper shape
Conjugation
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Etymology 3
Verbal noun from حَذَفَ (ḥaḏafa).
Noun
حَذْف • (ḥaḏf) m
- shortening, curtailing, cutting off, trimming
- cancellation, crossing out, deletion, omission, dropping, suppression
- (grammar, phonology, phonetics) elision, deletion, ellipsis, apocope, apheresis
Declension
Declension of noun حَذْف (ḥaḏf)
Synonyms
- إِسْقَاط (ʔisqāṭ)
Etymology 4
From the root ح ذ ف (ḥ-ḏ-f) in the sense of "trimming (especially laterally)", from the تَحْذِيفُ الشَّعَر (taḥḏīfu š-šaʕar, “undercut hairstyle”); so called for the distinctive teal-colored side patches on the bird's head.
Noun
حَذَف • (ḥaḏaf) m
Declension
Declension of noun حَذَف (ḥaḏaf)
Derived terms
- حَذَفِيّ (ḥaḏafiyy, “teal-coloured”)