خرافة

Arabic

Root
خ ر ف (ḵ r f)
10 terms

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xu.raː.fa/

Noun

خُرَافَة • (ḵurāfa) f (plural خُرَافَات (ḵurāfāt))

1. (archaic) plucked up fruits
2. myth, chatter, rigmarole, mumbo jumbo, cock-and-bull story, tall tale

Declension

Declension of noun خُرَافَة (ḵurāfa)

singular	singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	خُرَافَة ḵurāfa	الْخُرَافَة al-ḵurāfa	خُرَافَة ḵurāfat
nominative	خُرَافَةٌ ḵurāfatun	الْخُرَافَةُ al-ḵurāfatu	خُرَافَةُ ḵurāfatu
accusative	خُرَافَةً ḵurāfatan	الْخُرَافَةَ al-ḵurāfata	خُرَافَةَ ḵurāfata
genitive	خُرَافَةٍ ḵurāfatin	الْخُرَافَةِ al-ḵurāfati	خُرَافَةِ ḵurāfati
dual	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	خُرَافَتَيْن ḵurāfatayn	الْخُرَافَتَيْن al-ḵurāfatayn	خُرَافَتَيْ ḵurāfatay
nominative	خُرَافَتَانِ ḵurāfatāni	الْخُرَافَتَانِ al-ḵurāfatāni	خُرَافَتَا ḵurāfatā
accusative	خُرَافَتَيْنِ ḵurāfatayni	الْخُرَافَتَيْنِ al-ḵurāfatayni	خُرَافَتَيْ ḵurāfatay
genitive	خُرَافَتَيْنِ ḵurāfatayni	الْخُرَافَتَيْنِ al-ḵurāfatayni	خُرَافَتَيْ ḵurāfatay
plural	sound feminine plural
	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	خُرَافَات ḵurāfāt	الْخُرَافَات al-ḵurāfāt	خُرَافَات ḵurāfāt
nominative	خُرَافَاتٌ ḵurāfātun	الْخُرَافَاتُ al-ḵurāfātu	خُرَافَاتُ ḵurāfātu
accusative	خُرَافَاتٍ ḵurāfātin	الْخُرَافَاتِ al-ḵurāfāti	خُرَافَاتِ ḵurāfāti
genitive	خُرَافَاتٍ ḵurāfātin	الْخُرَافَاتِ al-ḵurāfāti	خُرَافَاتِ ḵurāfāti

Derived terms

• خُرَافِيّ (ḵurāfiyy, “fabulated”)

Descendants

• Maltese: ħrafa
• Moroccan Arabic: خرافة (ḵrāfa)
• → Classical Persian: خُرَافَه (xorâfe)
• → Urdu: خرافت (xurāfat)
• → Ottoman Turkish: خرافه (hurâfe)
  • Turkish: hurafe

(via plural form خُرَافَات (ḵurāfāt))

• → Azerbaijani: xurafat
• → Indonesian: khurafat
• → Hindustani: (from the plural خُرَافَات (ḵurāfāt))

  Hindi: ख़ुराफ़ात (xurāfāt)

  Urdu: خُرَافَات (xurāfāt)

• → Persian: خرافات (xorâfât)
  • Tajik: хурофот (xurofot)
• → Ottoman Turkish: خرافات (hurâfât)
  • → Crimean Tatar: hurafat
• → Tatar: хорафат (xorafat)
• → Uyghur: خۇراپات (xurapat)
• → Uzbek: xurofot

References

• Freytag, Georg (1830), “خرافة”, 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 478
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “خرافة”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎^[2] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 562

South Levantine Arabic

Root
خ ر ف
6 terms

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Arabic خُرَافَة (ḵurāfa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xu.raː.fe/, [xʊˈrˤɑː.fe]
• IPA^(key): /xu.raː.fa/, [xʊˈrˤɑː.fa]

• Audio (Ramallah):

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Noun

خرافة • (ḵurāfe) f (feminine خرافات (ḵurāfāt))

1. legend, superstition, old wives' tale

Tunisian Arabic

Etymology

Inherited from Arabic خُرَافَةٌ (ḵurāfatun). By surface analysis from خَرِّف (ḵarref, “to tell a tale”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [χʊr.ˈrɐː.fə], [ˈχrɐː.fə]

Noun

خرافة (ḵorrāfə, ḵrāfə) f (plural خرافات (ḵorrāfēt, ḵrāfēt))

1. tale, legend, fable, myth
2. urban legend, campfire story
3. folklore story
4. longstanding hoax, debunked myth