زيف

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See also: زیف, زيق, ريف, and ريق

Arabic

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Aramaic זֵיפָא / ܙܺܐܦܳܐ (zēp̄ā, mould; forgery), from Akkadian 𒍢𒀪𒁉 (/⁠zeʾpu, zīpu⁠/, mould).

Noun

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زَيْف (zayfm (plural زُيُوف (zuyūf))

  1. falsity, falsehood, fallacy
  2. verbal noun of زَافَ (zāfa, to be fake)
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Adjective

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زَيْف (zayf)

  1. counterfeit, fake, sham
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Verb

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زَيَّفَ (zayyafa) II (non-past يُزَيِّفُ (yuzayyifu), verbal noun تَزْيِيف (tazyīf))

  1. to counterfeit, to forge, to fake, to sham
  2. to assert to be false, to falsify
Conjugation
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Etymology 2

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Root
ز ي ف (z y f)
2 terms

Noun

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زَيْف (zayfm

  1. verbal noun of زَافَ (zāfa, to drag an elegant tail behind oneself)
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Noun

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زِيف (zīfm (plural أَزْوَاف (ʔazwāf))

  1. ledge, cornice, coping, border, shroud (prominent part of something, hanging from a building or cloth)
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References

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  • zyp”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “زيف”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 619
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 195–196
  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “زيف”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[2] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 270
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “زيف”, 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[3] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 1032
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “زيف”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[4], London: Williams & Norgate, page 1277
  • Sokoloff, Michael (2002) A Dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic of the Talmudic and Geonic periods, Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan University, page 410b
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “زيف”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[5] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 541