حف

See also: خف, and حق

Arabic

Etymology

From the root ح ف ف (ḥ-f-f).

Verb

1. to surround, to enclose, to encompass, to border
   • 1355 CE, Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, “الشام”, in Darwīsh Al-Juwaydiyy, editor, رحلة ابن بطوطة, volume 1, Al-Maktabah Al-ʿAṣriyyah, published 2005, →ISBN, page 66:

     ثُمَّ وصلتُ إلى مدينة طرابلس. وهي إحدى قواعد الشام وبلدانها الضخام. تخترقها الأنهار، وتَحُفُّهَا البساتين والأشجار، ويكنفها البحر بمرافقه العميقة، والبر بخيراته المقيمة، ولها الأسواق العجيبة، والمسارحُ الخصيبة، […]

     I came next to the town of Atrabulus [Tripoli], one of the capitals of Syria and of its great cities, traversed by flowing streams, and surrounded by gardens and trees, flanked by the sea with its copious resources and by the land with its sustaining bounties, and possessed of admirable bazaars and fertile lands.

     Translated by H. A. R. Gibb

2. to surround with, to cause to he surrounded by
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 18:32:

     وَٱضْرِبْ لَهُم مَثَلًا رَجُلَيْنِ جَعَلْنَا لِأَحَدِهِمَا جَنَّتَيْنِ مِنْ أَعْنَابٍ وَحَفَفْنَاهُمَا بِنَخْلٍ وَجَعَلْنَا بَيْنَهُمَا زَرْعًا

     waḍrib lahum maṯalan rajulayni jaʕalnā liʔaḥadihimā jannatayni min ʔaʕnābin waḥafafnāhumā binaḵlin wajaʕalnā baynahumā zarʕan

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References

• Lane, Edward William (1863) “حف”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[1], London: Williams & Norgate
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “حف”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[2], London: W.H. Allen

Verb

1. to clip short the hair of, to pluck out the hair of
2. to shave
3. to rub off, to scrape off, to erase

References

• Lane, Edward William (1863) “حف”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[3], London: Williams & Norgate
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “حف”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[4], London: W.H. Allen

Verb

1. to shave

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “حف”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[5], London: W.H. Allen

Verb

1. to be disheveled
2. to bear dry herbs
3. to vanish entirely

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “حف”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[6], London: W.H. Allen

Verb

1. to rumble (bowels)
2. to snort
3. to hiss (snake)

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “حف”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[7], London: W.H. Allen

Noun

حَفّ • (ḥaff) m

1. verbal noun of حَفَّ (ḥaffa) (form I)
2. loom
3. trace

Declension

Declension of noun حَفّ (ḥaff)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	حَفّ ḥaff	الْحَفّ al-ḥaff	حَفّ ḥaff
Nominative	حَفٌّ ḥaffun	الْحَفُّ al-ḥaffu	حَفُّ ḥaffu
Accusative	حَفًّا ḥaffan	الْحَفَّ al-ḥaffa	حَفَّ ḥaffa
Genitive	حَفٍّ ḥaffin	الْحَفِّ al-ḥaffi	حَفِّ ḥaffi

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “حف”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[8], London: W.H. Allen