لوف

Arabic

Alternative forms

• لِيف (līf)

Etymology

Variant of لِيف (līf), more dialectal if not in the botanical senses.

Noun

لُوف • (lūf) m (collective, singulative لُوفَة f (lūfa))

1. fibres, spongy interior of a plant
2. sponge as tool
3. Luffa gen. et spp.
4. Arum gen. et spp.

Declension

Declension of noun لُوف (lūf)

Collective	basic collective triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	لُوف lūf	اللُّوف al-lūf	لُوف lūf
Nominative	لُوفٌ lūfun	اللُّوفُ al-lūfu	لُوفُ lūfu
Accusative	لُوفًا lūfan	اللُّوفَ al-lūfa	لُوفَ lūfa
Genitive	لُوفٍ lūfin	اللُّوفِ al-lūfi	لُوفِ lūfi
Singulative	singulative triptote in ـَة (-a)
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	لُوفَة lūfa	اللُّوفَة al-lūfa	لُوفَة lūfat
Nominative	لُوفَةٌ lūfatun	اللُّوفَةُ al-lūfatu	لُوفَةُ lūfatu
Accusative	لُوفَةً lūfatan	اللُّوفَةَ al-lūfata	لُوفَةَ lūfata
Genitive	لُوفَةٍ lūfatin	اللُّوفَةِ al-lūfati	لُوفَةِ lūfati
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	لُوفَتَيْن lūfatayn	اللُّوفَتَيْن al-lūfatayn	لُوفَتَيْ lūfatay
Nominative	لُوفَتَانِ lūfatāni	اللُّوفَتَانِ al-lūfatāni	لُوفَتَا lūfatā
Accusative	لُوفَتَيْنِ lūfatayni	اللُّوفَتَيْنِ al-lūfatayni	لُوفَتَيْ lūfatay
Genitive	لُوفَتَيْنِ lūfatayni	اللُّوفَتَيْنِ al-lūfatayni	لُوفَتَيْ lūfatay
Paucal (3-10)	sound feminine paucal
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	لُوفَات lūfāt	اللُّوفَات al-lūfāt	لُوفَات lūfāt
Nominative	لُوفَاتٌ lūfātun	اللُّوفَاتُ al-lūfātu	لُوفَاتُ lūfātu
Accusative	لُوفَاتٍ lūfātin	اللُّوفَاتِ al-lūfāti	لُوفَاتِ lūfāti
Genitive	لُوفَاتٍ lūfātin	اللُّوفَاتِ al-lūfāti	لُوفَاتِ lūfāti

Descendants

• → Translingual: Luffa, Luffa
• → Czech: lufa
• → English: loofah, loofa, luffa
• ⇒ Italian: Blufi (possibly)
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic script: лу̏фа
  • Latin script: lȕfa
• → Slovak: lufa

References

• Freytag, Georg (1837) “لوف”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 136
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “لوف”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[2] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1174