ش ف ي

Arabic

Etymology

From شَفَة (šafa, “lip; brink, border”): originally شُفِيَ (šufiya, “to have one’s health restored”) literally meant “to be unbrinked”, “to be snatched from the brink of death”.

Root

ش ف ي • (š-f-y)

1. related to healing

Derived terms

• Form I: شَفَى (šafā, “to heal”)
  • Verbal noun: شِفَاء (šifāʔ)
  • Active participle: شَافٍ (šāfin)
  • Passive participle: مَشْفِيّ (mašfiyy)
• Form IV: أَشْفَى (ʔašfā, “to medicate, to apply leechdom to, to recover to convalescence”)
  • Verbal noun: إِشْفَاء (ʔišfāʔ)
  • Active participle: مُشْفٍ (mušfin)
  • Passive participle: مُشْفًى (mušfan)
• Form V: تَشَفَّى (tašaffā, “to recover, to find sanity again, to find satisfaction”)
  • Verbal noun: تَشَفٍّ (tašaffin)
  • Active participle: مُتَشَفٍّ (mutašaffin)
• Form VIII: اِشْتَفَى (ištafā, “to be healed; to be content or satisfied”)
  • Verbal noun: اِشْتِفَاء (ištifāʔ)
  • Active participle: مُشْتَفٍ (muštafin)
• Form X: اِسْتَشْفَى (istašfā, “to seek treatment at”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِشْفَاء (istišfāʔ)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَشْفٍ (mustašfin)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَشْفًى (mustašfan)

• مُسْتَشْفًى (mustašfan, “hospital”)
• مَشْفًى (mašfan, “hospital”)
• أَشْفَى (ʔašfā, “more potent of healing”)

Related terms

• ش ف و (š-f-w)
• سَوْفَ (sawfa)

References

• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 716 derives from ف ي ء (f-y-ʔ), and senses of satisfaction from ع ف و (ʕ-f-w)
• Freytag, Georg (1833) “ش ف ي”, 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, page 436b
• Haupt, Paul (1917) “Syriac sífṯâ, lip, and sáu̮pâ, end”, in Journal of the Society of Oriental Research‎^[2], volume 1, page 92
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ش ف ي”, 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 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 1251b–1252a
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ش ف ي”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[4], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1574a–1575c