غ ف ر

غ ف ر • (ḡ-f-r)

1. related to covering, concealing
2. (figurative) related to remission, forgiveness

• Form I: غَفَرَ‎ (ḡafara, “to cover”)
  • Verbal noun: غَفْر‎ (ḡafr)
  • Active participle: غَافِر‎ (ḡāfir)
  • Passive participle: مَغْفُور‎ (maḡfūr)
• Form I: غَفَرَ‎ (ḡafara, “to forgive”)
  • Verbal noun: غَفْر‎ (ḡafr, “forgiveness”), مَغْفِرَة‎ (maḡfira, “forgiveness”), غُفْرَان‎ (ḡufrān, “forgiveness”)
  • Active participle: غَافِر‎ (ḡāfir)
  • Passive participle: مَغْفُور‎ (maḡfūr)
• Form II: غَفَّرَ‎ (ḡaffara, “to escort”)
  • Verbal noun: تَغْفِير‎ (taḡfīr)
  • Active participle: مُغَفِّر‎ (muḡaffir)
  • Passive participle: مُغَفَّر‎ (muḡaffar)
• Form IV: أَغْفَرَ‎ (ʔaḡfara, “to produce small herbage”)
  • Verbal noun: إِغْفَار‎ (ʔiḡfār)
  • Active participle: مُغْفِر‎ (muḡfir)
• Form VIII: اِغْتَفَرَ‎ (iḡtafara, “to forgive”)
  • Verbal noun: اِغْتِفَار‎ (iḡtifār)
  • Active participle: مُغْتَفِر‎ (muḡtafir)
  • Passive participle: مُغْتَفَر‎ (muḡtafar)
• Form X: اِسْتَغْفَرَ‎ (istaḡfara, “to ask to remit”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِغْفَار‎ (istiḡfār)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَغْفِر‎ (mustaḡfir)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَغْفَر‎ (mustaḡfar)

• غَفَر‎ (ḡafar, “hair like down; small herbage”)
• غُفْر‎ (ḡufr, “young of a bovine antelope or mountain goat”)
• غُفْرَة‎ (ḡufra, “cover”)
• غَفِير‎ (ḡafīr, “under-helmet; a bodyguard or watchman”)
• غِفَارَة‎ (ḡifāra, “bonnet, kerchief”)
• غُفَّارَة‎ (ḡuffāra, “coat, mantle”)
• مِغْفَر‎ (miḡfar, “what is worn beneath the helmet”)
• غَفِيرَة‎ (ḡafīra, “inclination to remit”)
• غَفُور‎ (ḡafūr)
• غَفَّار‎ (ḡaffār, “inclined to remit”)

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “غ ف ر”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 217–218
• Freytag, Georg (1835), “غ ف ر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 284–285
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “غ ف ر”, 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), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 482–484
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “غ ف ر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2273–2275
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “غ ف ر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, pages 793–794