ز ل ف

A variant of س ل ف (s-l-f). Compare also the meanings of the present root to those ascribed to ز ر ف (z-r-f) and س ر ف (s-r-f).

ز ل ف • (z-l-f)

1. related to nearing

• Form I: زَلَفَ (zalafa, “to get close, to near, to advance”)
  • Verbal noun: زَلْف (zalf), زَلَف (zalaf), زَلِيف (zalīf)
  • Active participle: زَالِف (zālif)
  • Passive participle: مَزْلُوف (mazlūf)
• Form II: زَلَّفَ (zallafa, “to do it before, to execute earlier; to exaggerate, to fudge”)
  • Verbal noun: تَزْلِيف (tazlīf)
  • Active participle: مُزَلِّف (muzallif)
  • Passive participle: مُزَلَّف (muzallaf)
• Form IV: أَزْلَفَ (ʔazlafa, “to draw near, to bring near”)
  • Verbal noun: إِزْلَاف (ʔizlāf)
  • Active participle: مُزْلِف (muzlif)
  • Passive participle: مُزْلَف (muzlaf)
• Form V: تَزَلَّفَ (tazallafa, “to precede; to come near; to behave flattering”)
  • Verbal noun: تَزَلُّف (tazalluf)
  • Active participle: مُتَزَلِّف (mutazallif)
  • Passive participle: مُتَزَلَّف (mutazallaf)
• Form VIII: اِزْدَلَفَ (izdalafa, “to precede; to be near to; to behave flattering”)
  • Verbal noun: اِزْدِلَاف (izdilāf)
  • Active participle: مُزْدَلِف (muzdalif)
  • Passive participle: مُزْدَلَف (muzdalaf)

• زَلَف (zalaf), زُلْفَة (zulfa) and زُلْفَى (zulfā)
• زَلُوف (zalūf, “far-extending”)
• زَلِيف (zalīf, “advancing”)
• مَزْلَفَة (mazlafa, “a place by which one ascends”)

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ز ل ف”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 599b–600a
• Freytag, Georg (1833) “ز ل ف”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 249a–b
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ز 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 C^ie, pages 1005–1006
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ز ل ف”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1245a–1246a
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “ز ل ف”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 442a
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ز ل ف”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 528a