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)
- forms words related to perishing, annihilation
Derived terms
- Form I: تَلِفَ (talifa, “to perish, to become marred, to be spoiled, to suffer annihilation”)
- Verbal noun: تَلَف (talaf)
- Active participle: تَالِف (tālif)
- Passive participle: مَتْلُوف (matlūf)
- Form II: تَلَّفَ (tallafa, “to ruin”)
- Verbal noun: تَتْلِيف (tatlīf)
- Active participle: مُتَلِّف (mutallif)
- Passive participle: مُتَلَّف (mutallaf)
- Form IV: أَتْلَفَ (ʾatlafa, “to cause to perish”)
- Verbal noun: إِتْلَاف (ʾitlāf)
- 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, 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