ف و ف
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Arabic
[edit]Root
[edit]ف و ف • (f-w-f)
- related to whiteness and/or covering
Derived terms
[edit]- Form I: فَافَ (fāfa, “to indicate that you will give someone nothing by putting your thumbnail on your index fingernail as if to say "you won't even get that much".”)
- فَوف (“bladder of a cow”)
- فُوف (fūf, “pellicle, membrane; a type of fine, white-striped cloth from Yemen”)
- مُفَوَّف (mufawwaf, “white-striped”)
References
[edit]- Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ف و ف”, 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[1] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 647
- Wehr, Hans (1960) “ف و ف”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz, page 732