د ف ع

د ف ع

Arabic

Root

د ف ع • (d-f-ʿ)

1. related to pushing back or forth

Derived terms

• Form I: دَفَعَ‎ (dafaʿa, “to push; to repel; to pay”)
  • Verbal noun: دَفْع‎ (dafʿ)
  • Active participle: دَافِع‎ (dāfiʿ)
  • Passive participle: مَدْفُوع‎ (madfūʿ)
• Form II: دَفَّعَ‎ (daffaʿa, “to drive, to compel”)
  • Verbal noun: تَدْفِيع‎ (tadfīʿ)
  • Active participle: مُدَفِّع‎ (mudaffiʿ)
  • Passive participle: مُدَفَّع‎ (mudaffaʿ)
• Form III: دَافَعَ‎ (dāfaʿa, “to strive to repel; to defend from”)
  • Verbal noun: مُدَافَعَة‎ (mudāfaʿa), دِفَاع‎ (difāʿ)
  • Active participle: مُدَافِع‎ (mudāfiʿ)
  • Passive participle: مُدَافَع‎ (mudāfaʿ)
• Form V: تَدَفَّعَ‎ (tadaffaʿa, “to press forward, to become impelled or repelled”)
  • Verbal noun: تَدَفُّع‎ (tadaffuʿ)
  • Active participle: مُتَدَفِّع‎ (mutadaffiʿ)
• Form VI: تَدَافَعَ‎ (tadāfaʿa, “to strive to repel each other, to push one another”)
  • Verbal noun: تَدَافُع‎ (tadāfuʿ)
  • Active participle: مُتَدَافِع‎ (mutadāfiʿ)
• Form VII: اِنْدَفَعَ‎ (indafaʿa, “to press forward, to become impelled or repelled”)
  • Verbal noun: اِنْدِفَاع‎ (indifāʿ)
  • Active participle: مُنْدَفِع‎ (mundafiʿ)

• دَفْعَة‎ (dafʿa, “push, single impulsion”)
• دُفْعَة‎ (dufʿa, “burst, what comes pushed forth at once”)
• مِدْفَع‎ (midfaʿ, “cannon”)
• مَدْفَع‎ (madfaʿ, “watercourse”)
• دُفَّاع‎ (duffāʿ, “main portion of water that pushes forth with a torrent”)
• دَفَّاع‎ (daffāʿ) amd دَفُوع‎ (dafūʿ) and مِدْفَع‎ (midfaʿ, “who or what propels or impels”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “د ف ع”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 448–450
• Freytag, Georg (1830), “د ف ع”, 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 41
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “د ف ع”, 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 712–714
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “د ف ع”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 890–892
• Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “د ف ع”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 329–330