قرفص

Arabic

Etymology

From the root ق ر ف ص (q-r-f-ṣ).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /qar.fa.sˤa/

Verb

قَرْفَصَ (qarfaṣa) Iq, non-past يُقَرْفِصُ‎ (yuqarfiṣu)

  1. to squat (legs crossed)

Conjugation

Noun

قُرْفُص (qurfuṣ) m (collective, singulative قُرْفُصَة f (qurfuṣa))

  1. (Egypt in particular at its Mediterranean ports) comber (Serranus spp., including Epinephelus aeneus)

Declension

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1830–1837), قرفص”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), Halle: C. A. Schwetschke
  • Baalbaki, Rohi (1995), قرفص”, in Al-Mawrid: A Modern Arabic-English Dictionary, 7th edition, Beirut: Dar El-Ilm Lilmalayin, →ISBN
  • Баранов, Х. К. (2011), قرفص”, in Большой арабско-русский словарь (Bolʹšoj arabsko-russkij slovarʹ), 11th edition, Москва: Живой язык, →ISBN
  • Lane, Edward William (1863), قرفص”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate
  • Wehr, Hans (1979), قرفص”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
  • التوصيف البيئي لمحافظة الإسكندرية (تقارير التوصيف البيئي للمحافظات), Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency, 2007, page 53

South Levantine Arabic

Root
ق ر ف ص

Etymology

From Arabic قَرْفَصَ (qarfaṣa).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔar.fasˤ/, [ˈʔɑrˤ.fɑsˤ]
  • (file)

Verb

قرفص (ʔarfaṣ) (form Iq, present بقرفص (biʔarfiṣ))

  1. to squat, to crouch

Conjugation

    Conjugation of قرفص (ʔarfaṣ)
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
past m قرفصت (ʔarfaṣt) قرفصت (ʔarfaṣt) قرفص (ʔarfaṣ) قرفصنا (ʔarfaṣna) قرفصتو (ʔarfaṣtu) قرفصو (ʔarfaṣu)
f قرفصتي (ʔarfaṣti) قرفصت (ʔarfaṣat)
present m بقرفص (baʔarfeṣ) بتقرفص (bitʔarfeṣ) بقرفص (biʔarfeṣ) منقرفص (minʔarfeṣ) بتقرفصو (bitʔarfṣu) بقرفصو (biʔarfṣu)
f بتقرفصي (bitʔarfṣi) بتقرفص (bitʔarfeṣ)
subjunctive m اقرفص (aʔarfeṣ) تقرفص (tʔarfeṣ) يقرفص (yʔarfeṣ) نقرفص (nʔarfeṣ) تقرفصو (tʔarfṣu) يقرفصو (yʔarfṣu)
f تقرفصي (tʔarfṣi) تقرفص (tʔarfeṣ)
imperative m قرفص (ʔarfeṣ) قرفصو (ʔarfṣu)
f قرفصي (ʔarfṣi)
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