قذف

Arabic

Etymology

From the root ق ذ ف (q-ḏ-f).

Verb

قَذَفَ (qaḏafa) I, non-past يَقْذِفُ‎ (yaqḏifu) (transitive)

  1. to throw forcefully; to hurl; to fling; to shoot; to propel
    Synonym: أَطْلَقَ (ʾaṭlaqa)
    مَنْ كَانَ بَيْتُهُ مِنْ زُجَاجٍ فَلَا يَقْذِفِ النَّاسَ بِالْحِجَارَةِ.
    man kāna baytuhu min zujājin falā yaqḏifi an-nāsa bi-l-ḥijārati.
    Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
    1. to pour out; to eject; to discharge
      Synonym: أَخْرَجَ (ʾaḵraja)
    2. to ejaculate (semen)
      Synonyms: أَنْزَلَ (ʾanzala), (intransitive) أَمْنَى (ʾamnā)
  2. to slander, to defame
    1. (Islam) to accuse falsely (someone, usually a woman) of fornication
      Hypernym: اِتَّهَمَ (ittahama, to accuse)
      Coordinate term: شَهِدَ (šahida, to testify)

Conjugation

Noun

قَذْف (qaḏf) m

  1. verbal noun of قَذَفَ (qaḏafa) (form I)
  2. fling (also as in the sexual sense)
  3. ejection
    1. seminal ejaculation
  4. (physiology) ejaculation (of semen)
  5. (Islam) false accusation of fornication (zina)

Declension

Descendants

  • English: qazf
  • French: qazf
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