ر ص ف

Arabic

Root

ر ص ف • (r-ṣ-f)

1. related to joining together

Derived terms

• Form I: رَصَفَ (raṣafa)
  • Verbal noun: رَصْف (raṣf)
  • Active participle: رَاصِف (rāṣif)
  • Passive participle: مَرْصُوف (marṣūf)
• Form II: رَصَّفَ (raṣṣafa)
  • Verbal noun: تَرْصِيف (tarṣīf)
  • Active participle: مُرَصِّف (muraṣṣif)
  • Passive participle: مُرَصَّف (muraṣṣaf)
• Form IV: أَرْصَفَ (ʔarṣafa)
  • Verbal noun: إِرْصَاف (ʔirṣāf)
  • Active participle: مُرْصِف (murṣif)
  • Passive participle: مُرْصَف (murṣaf)
• Form VI: تَرَاصَفَ (tarāṣafa)
  • Verbal noun: تَرَاصُف (tarāṣuf)
  • Active participle: مُتَرَاصِف (mutarāṣif)
• Form VIII: اِرْتَصَفَ (irtaṣafa)
  • Verbal noun: اِرْتِصَاف (irtiṣāf)
  • Active participle: مُرْتَصِف (murtaṣif)
  • Passive participle: مُرْتَصَف (murtaṣaf)
• رَصِيف m (raṣīf, “firm, solid; platform, pier, perron; colleague”)
• رِصَافَة f (riṣāfa, “firmness”)
• رِصَافَ m (riṣāfa, “sinew for strengthening arrows”)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1833) “ر ص ف”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 155–156
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ر ص ف”, 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, pages 870–871
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ر ص ف”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[3], London: Williams & Norgate, page 1094