ش ف و

Arabic

Etymology

From شَفَة (šafa, “lip; brink, border”).

Root

ش ف و • (š-f-w)

  1. related to nearing the brink

Derived terms
  • Form I: شَفَا (šafā, “to near setting (said of the Sun); to appear”)
  • Form IV: أَشْفَى (ʔašfā, “to be or become on the brink of”)
    • Verbal noun: إِشْفَاء (ʔišfāʔ)
    • Active participle: مُشْفٍ (mušfin)
    • Passive participle: مُشْفًى (mušfan)
  • شَفًا (šafan, “extremity or brink of a thing”)

References
  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “ش ف و”, 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, page 436b
  • Haupt, Paul (1917) “Syriac sífṯâ, lip, and sáu̮pâ, end”, in Journal of the Society of Oriental Research‎, volume 1, page 92
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ش ف و”, 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, page 1251b
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “ش ف و”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1574a–1575c
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