خفاش

Arabic

Etymology

From خَفِشَ (ḵafiša, “to be day-blind, to have poor eyesight”).

Noun

خُفَّاش • (ḵuffāš) m (plural خَفَافِيش (ḵafāfīš))

1. bat (winged animal)

Declension

Declension of noun خُفَّاش (ḵuffāš)

singular	basic singular triptote
	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	خُفَّاش ḵuffāš	الْخُفَّاش al-ḵuffāš	خُفَّاش ḵuffāš
nominative	خُفَّاشٌ ḵuffāšun	الْخُفَّاشُ al-ḵuffāšu	خُفَّاشُ ḵuffāšu
accusative	خُفَّاشًا ḵuffāšan	الْخُفَّاشَ al-ḵuffāša	خُفَّاشَ ḵuffāša
genitive	خُفَّاشٍ ḵuffāšin	الْخُفَّاشِ al-ḵuffāši	خُفَّاشِ ḵuffāši
dual	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	خُفَّاشَيْن ḵuffāšayn	الْخُفَّاشَيْن al-ḵuffāšayn	خُفَّاشَيْ ḵuffāšay
nominative	خُفَّاشَانِ ḵuffāšāni	الْخُفَّاشَانِ al-ḵuffāšāni	خُفَّاشَا ḵuffāšā
accusative	خُفَّاشَيْنِ ḵuffāšayni	الْخُفَّاشَيْنِ al-ḵuffāšayni	خُفَّاشَيْ ḵuffāšay
genitive	خُفَّاشَيْنِ ḵuffāšayni	الْخُفَّاشَيْنِ al-ḵuffāšayni	خُفَّاشَيْ ḵuffāšay
plural	basic broken plural diptote
	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	خَفَافِيش ḵafāfīš	الْخَفَافِيش al-ḵafāfīš	خَفَافِيش ḵafāfīš
nominative	خَفَافِيشُ ḵafāfīšu	الْخَفَافِيشُ al-ḵafāfīšu	خَفَافِيشُ ḵafāfīšu
accusative	خَفَافِيشَ ḵafāfīša	الْخَفَافِيشَ al-ḵafāfīša	خَفَافِيشَ ḵafāfīša
genitive	خَفَافِيشَ ḵafāfīša	الْخَفَافِيشِ al-ḵafāfīši	خَفَافِيشِ ḵafāfīši

Synonyms

• خنفوش
• خفدود
• وطواط

Descendants

• Hijazi Arabic: خُفَّاش (ḵuffāš)
• → Persian: خفاش (xoffâš)
• → Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܟ݂ܸܫܹܝܦ̮ܹܐ (ḵiššēfē)

Hijazi Arabic

Root
خ ف ش
1 term

Etymology

From Arabic خُفَّاش (ḵuffāš).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xuˈf.faːʃ/

Noun

خفاش • (ḵuffāš) m (plural خفافيش (ḵafāfīš))

1. bat (winged animal)

Moroccan Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic خُفَّاش (ḵuffāš).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xuf.faːʃ/

Noun

خفاش • (ḵuffāš) m (plural خفافش (ḵfāfiš))

1. bat (winged animal)

   Synonyms: طير الليل (ṭīr el-līl, ṭayr el-layl), سحت الليل (saḥt el-līl, saḥt el-layl)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic خُفَّاش (ḵuffāš, “bat”).

Noun

خفاش • (huffaş) (definite accusative خفاشی (huffaşı), plural خفافيش (hafâfiş))

1. bat, any of the flying mammals of the order Chiroptera, usually small and nocturnal, insectivorous or frugivorous

   Synonyms: شبپره (şebpere), كیجه قوشی (gece kuşu), وطواط (vatvat), یراسه (yarasa)

Descendants

• Turkish: huffaş

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “huffaş”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2002
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962), “huffâş”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 452
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “خفاش”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 546
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Vespertilio”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1745
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “خفاش”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1917
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “خفاش”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 856

Persian

یک خفاش ― a bat

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic خُفَّاش (ḵuffāš).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /xuf.ˈfaːʃ/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [xʊf.fɑ́ːʃ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [xʊf.fɑ́ːʃ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [xʊf.fɑ́ːʃ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [xuf.fɔ́ːʃ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [xof.fɒ́ːʃ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [χuf.fɔ́ʃ], [χäf.fɔ́ʃ]

Readings
Classical reading?	xuffāš
Dari reading?	xuffāš
Iranian reading?	xoffâš
Tajik reading?	xuffoš, xaffoš

Noun

خفاش • (xoffâš) (plural خفاشان (xoffâšân), or خفاش‌ها (xoffâš-hâ))

1. bat (small, winged animal)

   Synonyms: شب‌کور (šab-kur), شَب‌پَره (šab-pare)

   • c. 1080, Nāṣir-i Khusraw, “Qaṣīda 123”, in دیوان ناصرخسرو [Dīvān of Nāṣir-i Khusraw]‎^[6]:

     که چون خفاش نتواند که بیند روی من نادان
     ز من پنهان شود زیرا منم خورشید رخشانش

     ki čūn xuffāš natwānad ki bēnad rōy-i man nādān
     zi man pinhān šawad zērā man-am xwaršēd-i raxšān-aš

     For, like the bat, the ignorant cannot bear to see my face;
     They hide from me because I am a shining sun to them.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934), “خفاش”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

South Levantine Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic خُفَّاش (ḵuffāš).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xaf.faːʃ/, [xafˈfæːʃ]

• Audio (Ramallah):

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Noun

خفّاش • (ḵaffāš) m (plural خفافيش (ḵafāfīš))

1. bat (winged animal)