صاف

See also: ضاف‎

Arabic

Etymology 1

Root
ص ف و‎ (ṣ-f-w)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sˤaː.fin/

Adjective

صَافٍ • (ṣāfin) (construct state صَافِي‎ (ṣāfī), masculine plural صَافُونَ‎ (ṣāfūna), feminine plural صَافِيَات‎ (ṣāfiyāt), elative أَصْفَى‎ (ʔaṣfā))

  1. pure, clear, unmixed
  2. serene, bright
  3. cold
  4. shining, flashing
Declension
Descendants
  • Maltese: safi
  • → Ottoman Turkish: صافی‎ (sâfî)
  • → Swahili: safi

Etymology 2

Root
ص ي ف‎ (ṣ-y-f)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sˤaː.fa/

Verb

صَافَ • (ṣāfa) I, non-past يَصِيفُ‎‎ (yaṣīfu)

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
    • (Can we date this quote?), Abū Al-Baqā’ Al-Ukbari, quoting Al-Mutanabbi, Mustafa As-Saqā; Ibrāhīm Al-Abyari; Abd Al-Hafīdh Shalbi, editors, دِيوَانُ أَبِي الطَّيِّبِ الْمُتَنَبِّي بِشَرْحِ أَبِي الْبَقَاءِ الْعَكْبَرِيِّ الْمُسَمَّى بِالتِّبْيَانِ فِي شَرْحِ الدِّيوَانِ (dīwānu ʔabī ṭ-ṭayyibi l-mutanabbī bišarḥi ʔabī l-baqāʔi l-ʕakbariyyi l-musammā bi-t-tibyāni fī šarḥi d-dīwāni), volume 4, Beirut, Lebanon: Al-Ma'rifah, published 1978, 284, page 273:
      ‏وَصِفْتُ فِيهَا مَصِيفَ بَادِيَةٍ / شَتَوْتُ بِالصَّحْصَحَانِ مَشْتَاهَا‎
      waṣiftu fīhā maṣīfa bādiyatin / šatawtu bi-ṣ-ṣaḥṣaḥāni maštāhā
      (please add an English translation of this quote)
Conjugation

Persian

Etymology

Derived from Arabic صاف‎ (ṣāf).

Pronunciation

Adjective

Dari صاف
Iranian Persian
Tajik соф (sof)

صاف • (sâf)

  1. flat
  2. smooth
  3. even
  4. plane
  5. clear
  6. pure

Adverb

Dari صاف
Iranian Persian
Tajik соф (sof)

صاف • (sâf)

  1. directly

Sindhi

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian صاف‎.

Adjective

صاف (sāfu) (Devanagari साफ़ु‎)

  1. clean

Urdu

Pronunciation

Adjective

صاف • (sāf) (Hindi spelling साफ़)

  1. clean
  2. blank
  3. pure
  4. clear, sensible
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