سفح

Arabic

Etymology

From the root س ف ح‎ (s-f-ḥ).

Verb

سَفَحَ • (safaḥa) I, non-past يَسْفَحُ‎‎ (yasfaḥu)

  1. to pour, to flow
  2. to spill, to shed
    Synonym: سَفَكَ‎ (safaka)
    • c. 563, طرفة بن العبد, ديوان طرفة بن العبد شرح الأعلم الشنتمري:
      ‏إِنِّي وَجَدِّكَ مَا هَجَوْتُكَ وَٱلْأَنْصَابُ يُسْفَحُ بَيْنَهُنَّ دَمُ‎
      ʔinnī wajaddika mā hajawtuka wal-ʔanṣābu yusfaḥu baynahunna damu
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    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 6:145:
      ‏إِلَّا أَنْ يَكُونَ مَيْتَةً أَوْ دَمًا مَسْفُوحًا أَوْ لَحْمَ خِنْزِيرٍ‎
      ʔillā ʔan yakūna maytatan ʔaw daman masfūḥan ʔaw laḥma ḵinzīrin
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Conjugation

Noun

سَفْح • (safḥ) m

  1. verbal noun of سَفَحَ (safaḥa) (form I)

Declension

Noun

سَفْح • (safḥ) m (plural سُفُوح‎ (sufūḥ) or أَسْفَاح‎ (ʔasfāḥ))

  1. bottom
  2. foot (of a mountain)
    • a. 660 CE, Ali ibn Abi Talib, Nahj Al-Balaghah:
      ‏فَإِذَا نَزَلْتُمْ بِعَدُوٍّ، أَوْ نَزَلَ بِكُمْ، فَلْيَكُنْ مُعَسْكَرُكُمْ فِي قُبُلِ الأَشْرَافِ، وَأَسْفَاحِ الجِبَالِ، وَأَثْنَاءِ الأَنْهَارِ‎
      faʔiḏā nazaltum biʕaduwwin, ʔaw nazala bikum, falyakun muʕaskarukum fī qubuli l-ʔašrāfi, waʔasfāḥi al-jibāli, waʔaṯnāʔi l-ʔanhāri
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Declension

References

  • Lane, Edward William (1863), “سفح”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “سفح”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “سفح”, 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 (in French), Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie
  • Wehr, Hans (1979), “سفح”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
  • Баранов, Х. К. (2011), “سفح”, in Большой арабско-русский словарь (Bolʹšoj arabsko-russkij slovarʹ), 11th edition, Москва: Живой язык, →ISBN
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