ص ح ف

Arabic

Etymology

Through the borrowing of Ge'ez መጽሓፍ (mäṣḥaf).

Root

ص ح ف • (ṣ-ḥ-f)

forms words related to writing on paper

Derived terms

Verbs

Form II: صَحَّفَ‎ (ṣaḥḥafa)
- Verbal noun: تَصْحِيف‎ (taṣḥīf)
- Active participle: مُصَحِّف‎ (muṣaḥḥif)
- Passive participle: مُصَحَّف‎ (muṣaḥḥaf)
Form V: تَصَحَّفَ‎ (taṣaḥḥafa)
- Verbal noun: تَصَحُّف‎ (taṣaḥḥuf)
- Active participle: مُتَصَحِّف‎ (mutaṣaḥḥif)
- Passive participle: مُتَصَحَّف‎ (mutaṣaḥḥaf)

Nouns

صَحِيفَة‎ f (ṣaḥīfa, “leaf”)
مُصْحَف‎ m (muṣḥaf, “volume, codex”)
صِحَافَة‎ f (ṣiḥāfa, “journalism”)
صُحُفِيّ‎ m (ṣuḥufiyy, “journalist”)
صَحَفِيّ‎ m (ṣaḥafiyy, “journalist”)
صَحّاف‎ m (ṣaḥḥāf, “newspaper trader”)
صَحْفَة‎ f (ṣaḥfa, “bowl, plate”)
صُحَيْفَة‎ f (ṣuḥayfa, “saucer”)

Adjectives

صِحَافِي‎ (ṣiḥāfī, “related to journalism”)
صُحُفِيّ‎ (ṣuḥufiyy, “journalistic”)
صَحَفِيّ‎ (ṣaḥafiyy, “journalistic”)

References

Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 248
Jeffery, Arthur (1938) The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, pages 192–194
Leslau, Wolf (1991), “ጸሐፈ”, in Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 552

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