ق ط ف

ق ط ف • (q-ṭ-f)

1. related to plucking

Verbs

• Form I: قَطَفَ‎ (qaṭafa, “to pluck”)
  • Verbal noun: قَطْف‎ (qaṭf), قُطُوف‎ (quṭūf)
  • Active participle: قَاطِف‎ (qāṭif)
  • Passive participle: مَقْطُوف‎ (maqṭūf)
• Form II: قَطَّفَ‎ (qaṭṭafa, “to pluck”)
  • Verbal noun: تَقْطِيف‎ (taqṭīf)
  • Active participle: مُقَطِّف‎ (muqaṭṭif)
  • Passive participle: مُقَطَّف‎ (muqaṭṭaf)
• Form IV: أَقْطَفَ‎ (ʔaqṭafa)
  • Verbal noun: إِقْطَاف‎ (ʔiqṭāf)
  • Active participle: مُقْطِف‎ (muqṭif)
  • Passive participle: مُقْطَف‎ (muqṭaf)
• Form VIII: اِقْتَطَفَ‎ (iqtaṭafa, “to pick out”)
  • Verbal noun: اِقْتِطَاف‎ (iqtiṭāf)
  • Active participle: مُقْتَطِف‎ (muqtaṭif)
  • Passive participle: مُقْتَطَف‎ (muqtaṭaf)

Nouns

• قَطْف‎ (qaṭf, “scratch”); pl. قُطُوف‎ (quṭūf)
• قِطْف‎ (qiṭf, “grape”); pl. قُطُوف‎ (quṭūf)
• قَطَّاف‎ (qaṭṭāf, “plucker”)
• قِطَاف‎ (qiṭāf, “time of plucking”)
• قَطِيفَة‎ (qaṭīfa, “satin, velvet”)
• مِقْطَف‎ (miqṭaf, “basket; scissors”) and مَقْطَف‎ (maqṭaf, “basket”); pl. مَقَاطِف‎ (maqāṭif)

Proper nouns

• اَلْقَطِيف‎ (al-qaṭīf, “Qatif, Saudi Arabia”)

Adjectives

• أَقْطَف‎ (ʔaqṭaf, “plucking much”)
• قَطُوف‎ (qaṭūf, “slow”)

• Corriente, Federico; Pereira, Christophe; Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017) Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, pages 1044–1045
• Freytag, Georg (1835), “ق ط ف”, 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, page 468
• Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “ق ط ف”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1043