ساف

Arabic

Etymology

From سَوْفَ (sawfa, future tense marker).

According to Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou the bird-name from an Egyptian compound term the second part of which is found in Coptic ϣⲁϥ (šaf, desert, wasteland); the bird-spotter’s observations motivating him to name the animal by the future marker, or secondarily by the terms derived from it, are left to speculation.

Pronunciation

  • (verb): IPA(key): /saː.fa/
  • (sparrowhawk): IPA(key): /saːf/

Verb

سَافَ (sāfa) I, non-past يَسُوفُ‎ (yasūfu) (obsolete)

  1. to smell, to explore by odour
  2. to hunt
  3. to endure with patience [+ عَلَى (object)]
  4. to perish, to die

Conjugation

Noun

سَاف (sāf) m (plural سَافَات (sāfāt) or سِيفَان (sīfān))

  1. (Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, al-Andalus) sparrowhawk
    • 2010 June 25, “مهرجان «الساف» يضع بلدة الهوارية التونسية المغمورة تحت الأضواء”, in Ar-Riyāḍ:

Declension

References

  • Corriente, Federico; Pereira, Christophe; Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017) Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, page 673
  • Ibn Ḵātima (a. 1369), “Un document nouveau sur l’arabe dialectal d’Occident au XIIe siècle = إيراد اللآل من إنشاد الضوال [ʾīrad l-laʾāl min ʾinšād aḍ-ḍawāl]”, in G. S. Colin, editor, Hespéris (in French), volume 12, issue 1, published 1931, page 28
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