ظرافة

Arabic

Etymology

From the root ظ ر ف‎ (ẓ-r-f).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ðˤa.raː.fa/

Noun

ظَرَافَة • (ẓarāfa) f

1. elegance, gracefulness, grace, charm
2. wittiness

Declension

Declension of noun ظَرَافَة (ẓarāfa)

Singular	singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	ظَرَافَة ẓarāfa	الظَّرَافَة‎ aẓ-ẓarāfa	ظَرَافَة ẓarāfat
Nominative	ظَرَافَةٌ ẓarāfatun	الظَّرَافَةُ‎ aẓ-ẓarāfatu	ظَرَافَةُ ẓarāfatu
Accusative	ظَرَافَةً ẓarāfatan	الظَّرَافَةَ‎ aẓ-ẓarāfata	ظَرَافَةَ ẓarāfata
Genitive	ظَرَافَةٍ ẓarāfatin	الظَّرَافَةِ‎ aẓ-ẓarāfati	ظَرَافَةِ ẓarāfati

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: zarafat
• → Ottoman Turkish: ظرافت‎ (zarafet)
  • Turkish: zarafet
• → Persian: ظرافت‎ (zerâfat)

References

• Баранов, Х. К. (2011), “ظرافة”, in Большой арабско-русский словарь (Bolʹšoj arabsko-russkij slovarʹ), 11th edition, Москва: Живой язык, →ISBN
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “ظرافة”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate
• Wehr, Hans (1960), “ظرافة”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz