قذف

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Arabic[edit]

Root
ق ذ ف (q-ḏ-f)

Pronunciation 1[edit]

Verb[edit]

قَذَفَ (qaḏafa) I, non-past يَقْذِفُ‎ (yaqḏifu) (transitive)

  1. to throw forcefully; to hurl; to fling; to shoot; to propel
    Synonym: أَطْلَقَ (ʔaṭlaqa)
    مَنْ كَانَ بَيْتُهُ مِنْ زُجَاجٍ فَلَا يَقْذِفِ النَّاسَ بِالْحِجَارَةِ.
    man kāna baytuhu min zujājin falā yaqḏifi an-nāsa bi-l-ḥijārati.
    Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
    1. to pour out; to eject; to discharge
      Synonym: أَخْرَجَ (ʔaḵraja)
    2. to ejaculate (semen)
      Synonyms: أَنْزَلَ (ʔanzala), (intransitive) أَمْنَى (ʔamnā)
  2. to slander, to defame
    1. (Islam) to accuse falsely (someone, usually a woman) of fornication
      Hypernym: اِتَّهَمَ (ittahama, to accuse)
      Coordinate term: شَهِدَ (šahida, to testify)
Conjugation[edit]

Pronunciation 2[edit]

Noun[edit]

قَذْف (qaḏfm

  1. verbal noun of قَذَفَ (qaḏafa) (form I)
  2. fling (also as in the sexual sense)
  3. ejection
    1. seminal ejaculation
  4. (physiology) ejaculation (of semen)
  5. (Islam) false accusation of fornication (zina)
Declension[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Azerbaijani: qəzf
  • English: qazf
  • French: qazf
  • Hausa: kazàf
  • Indonesian: qadzaf
  • Persian: قذف
  • Ottoman Turkish: قذف
  • Swahili: qadhf