ث ف ر

ث ف ر

Arabic

Root

ث ف ر • (ṯ-f-r)

1. related to things behind

Derived terms

• Form II: ثَفَّرَ‎ (ṯaffara, “to drive forward from behind”)
  • Verbal noun: تَثْفِير‎ (taṯfīr)
  • Active participle: مُثَفِّر‎ (muṯaffir)
  • Passive participle: مُثَفَّر‎ (muṯaffar)
• Form IV: أَثْفَرَ‎ (ʾaṯfara, “to drive forward from behind; to fasten a crupper upon; to show evidence of bringing forth”)
  • Verbal noun: إِثْفَار‎ (ʾiṯfār)
  • Active participle: مُثْفِر‎ (muṯfir)
  • Passive participle: مُثْفَر‎ (muṯfar)
• Form X: اِسْتَثْفَرَ‎ (istaṯfara, “to turn the extremity hanging behind through the thighs to the waist”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِثْفَار‎ (istiṯfār)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَثْفِر‎ (mustaṯfir)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَثْفَر‎ (mustaṯfar)

• ثَفَر‎ (ṯafar, “crupper”)
• ثَفْر‎ (ṯafr), ثُفْر‎ (ṯufr, “vulva of a beast of prey”)
• مِثْفَار‎ (miṯfār, “beast that throws its saddle backwards; catamite”)
• ثُفْرُوق‎ (ṯufrūq, “date petiole”)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1830), “ث ف ر”, 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 220
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “ث ف ر”, 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 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 226–227
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “ث ف ر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 339–340
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “ث ف ر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 124
• Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “ث ف ر”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 153