ظرف

From the root ظ ر ف‎ (ẓ-r-f).

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ظَرْف • (ẓarf) m (plural ظُرُوف‎ (ẓurūf))

1. vessel, container, receptacle
2. metal saucer
3. box, pasteboard box, purse, bag
4. egg cup
5. envelope (for a letter)
6. case
7. cover
8. (grammar) adverb, adverbial expression denoting place or time

   Hyponyms: ظَرْف زَمَان‎ (ẓarf zamān), ظَرْف مَكَان‎ (ẓarf makān)

9. circumstance, condition
10. wit, sagacity
11. gracefulness, elegance, culture

• Gulf Arabic: ظرف‎ (ḏ̣arf)
• Hijazi Arabic: ظرف‎ (ẓarf)
• → Afar: dárfi
• → Albanian: zarf
• → Azerbaijani: zərf
• → English: zarf
• → Ottoman Turkish: ظرف‎
• → Persian: ظرف‎
• → Serbo-Croatian: zȁrf
• → Turkish: zarf

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

ظرف

1. Arabic spelling of zərf (“adverb”)

From Arabic ظَرْف‎ (ẓarf).

• IPA^(key): /zˤarf/

ظَرف • (ẓarf) m (plural ظُروف‎ (ẓurūf))

1. envelope
2. case
3. condition

Borrowed from Arabic ظَرْف‎ (ẓarf).

• (Classical Persian): IPA^(key): /zaɾf/

• (Dari): IPA^(key): /zaɾf/

• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /zæɾf/
• (Tajik): IPA^(key): /zaɾf/

ظرف • (zarf) (plural ظروف‎ (zoruf))

1. dish, vessel, container
   • 2017, “عکس‌خبر؛ رکورد گران‌ترین ظرف چینی شکسته شد”, in BBC Persian‎:

     ‏رکورد گران‌ترین ظرف چینی شکسته شد‎

     rekord-e gerân-tarin zarf-e čini šekaste šod

     the record for the most expensive porcelain dish has been broken

   Synonym: بشقاب‎ (bošqâb)

2. (figurative) ability, capacity
3. (figurative) patience, forbearance
4. (grammar) adverb

• → Azerbaijani: zərf

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /zə.ɾəf/
• (Deccani) IPA^(key): /zə.ɾəf/

ظرف • (transliteration needed) ?

1. dish, vessel, container

   Synonym: برتن‎ (bartan)