خالف

See also: خالق

Arabic

Etymology

From the root خ ل ف (ḵ-l-f).

Verb

خَالَفَ (ḵālafa) III, non-past يُخَالِفُ‎ (yuḵālifu)

  1. to disagree, contradict, thwart
    • 2017 October 24, “الجبير: السعودية تؤيد موقف ترمب من إيران”, in TheBaghdadPost.com:
      .وخالف الرئيس ترمب مواقف قوى كبرى أخرى هذا الشهر برفضه أن يقر رسميا التزام طهران ببنود الاتفاق النووي
      President Trump diverged this month from the positions of other major powers by refusing to acknowledge formally the commitment of Teheran to the clauses of the nuclear deal.
  2. to disobey, go against, contravene
  3. to transgress the law
  4. to caper in walking

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References

  • خالف” in J.A. Haywood and H.M. Nahmad (1965), A new Arabic grammar (second edition), London: Lund Humphries, →ISBN
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), خالف”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen
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