ت ل ف

Arabic

Etymology

From Old South Arabian 𐩩𐩡𐩰 (tlf, “to perish”), 𐩠𐩩𐩡𐩰 (htlf, “to ruin”), metathetical to لَفَتَ (lafata, “to twist”).

Root

ت ل ف • (t-l-f)

  1. forms words related to perishing, annihilation

Derived terms
  • Form I: تَلِفَ (talifa, “to perish, to become marred, to be spoiled, to suffer annihilation”)
  • Form II: تَلَّفَ (tallafa, “to ruin”)
    • Verbal noun: تَتْلِيف (tatlīf)
    • Active participle: مُتَلِّف (mutallif)
    • Passive participle: مُتَلَّف (mutallaf)
  • Form IV: أَتْلَفَ (ʔatlafa, “to cause to perish”)
    • Verbal noun: إِتْلَاف (ʔitlāf)
    • Active participle: مُتْلِف (mutlif)
    • Passive participle: مُتْلَف (mutlaf)
  • Form VII: اِنْتَلَفَ (intalafa, “to perish”)
    • Verbal noun: اِنْتِلَاف (intilāf)
    • Active participle: مُنْتَلِف (muntalif)
  • تَلْفَان (talfān, “marred”)
  • تَلّاف (tallāf, “wasteful”)
  • تَلِيفَ (talīfa, “wasted thing”)
  • مِتْلَاف (mitlāf, “ruinous”)
  • مَتْلَف (matlaf) and مَتْلَفَة (matlafa, “desert, a place to perish”)

References
  • Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, pages 222–223
  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “ت ل ف”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 197
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ت ل ف”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎ (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, pages 204–205
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “ت ل ف”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 312–313
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ت ل ف”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, page 186
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “ت ل ف”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 116
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