غ ف ر

Arabic

Root

غ ف ر • (ḡ-f-r)

1. related to covering, concealing
2. (figurative) related to remission, forgiveness

Derived terms

• Form I: غَفَرَ (ḡafara, “to cover”)
  • Verbal noun: غَفْر (ḡafr)
  • Active participle: غَافِر (ḡāfir)
  • Passive participle: مَغْفُور (maḡfūr)
• Form I: غَفَرَ (ḡafara, “to forgive”)
  • Verbal noun: غَفْر (ḡafr), مَغْفِرَة (maḡfira), غُفْرَان (ḡufrān)
  • Active participle: غَافِر (ḡāfir)
  • Passive participle: مَغْفُور (maḡfūr)
• Form II: غَفَّرَ (ḡaffara, “to escort”)
  • Verbal noun: تَغْفِير (taḡfīr)
  • Active participle: مُغَفِّر (muḡaffir)
  • Passive participle: مُغَفَّر (muḡaffar)
• Form IV: أَغْفَرَ (ʔaḡfara, “to produce small herbage”)
  • Verbal noun: إِغْفَار (ʔiḡfār)
  • Active participle: مُغْفِر (muḡfir)
• Form VIII: اِغْتَفَرَ (iḡtafara, “to forgive”)
  • Verbal noun: اِغْتِفَار (iḡtifār)
  • Active participle: مُغْتَفِر (muḡtafir)
  • Passive participle: مُغْتَفَر (muḡtafar)
• Form X: اِسْتَغْفَرَ (istaḡfara, “to ask to remit”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِغْفَار (istiḡfār)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَغْفِر (mustaḡfir)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَغْفَر (mustaḡfar)

• غَفَر (ḡafar, “hair like down; small herbage”)
• غُفْر (ḡufr, “young of a bovine antelope or mountain goat”)
• غُفْرَة (ḡufra, “cover”)
• غَفِير (ḡafīr, “under-helmet; a bodyguard or watchman”)
• غِفَارَة‎ (ḡifāra, “bonnet, kerchief”)
• غُفَّارَة (ḡuffāra, “coat, mantle”)
• مِغْفَر (miḡfar, “what is worn beneath the helmet”)
• غَفِيرَة (ḡafīra, “inclination to remit”)
• غَفُور (ḡafūr)
• غَفَّار (ḡaffār, “inclined to remit”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “غ ف ر”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 217–218
• Freytag, Georg (1835) “غ ف ر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 284–285
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “غ ف ر”, 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 482–484
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “غ ف ر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[4], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2273–2275
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “غ ف ر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, pages 793–794