ر ص ف

ر ص ف

Arabic

Root

ر ص ف • (r-ṣ-f)

1. related to joining together

Derived terms

• Form I: رَصَفَ‎ (raṣafa, “to pave; to array, to line up”)
  • Verbal noun: رَصْف‎ (raṣf)
  • Active participle: رَاصِف‎ (rāṣif)
  • Passive participle: مَرْصُوف‎ (marṣūf)
• Form I: رَصُفَ‎ (raṣufa, “to be or become steady, firm, compact”)
  • Verbal noun: رَصَافَة‎ (raṣāfa)
  • Active participle: رَاصِف‎ (rāṣif)
• Form II: رَصَّفَ‎ (raṣṣafa, “to pave”)
  • Verbal noun: تَرْصِيف‎ (tarṣīf)
  • Active participle: مُرَصِّف‎ (muraṣṣif)
  • Passive participle: مُرَصَّف‎ (muraṣṣaf)
• Form IV: أَرْصَفَ‎ (ʾarṣafa)
  • Verbal noun: إِرْصَاف‎ (ʾirṣāf)
  • Active participle: مُرْصِف‎ (murṣif)
  • Passive participle: مُرْصَف‎ (murṣaf)
• Form VI: تَرَاصَفَ‎ (tarāṣafa)
  • Verbal noun: تَرَاصُف‎ (tarāṣuf)
  • Active participle: مُتَرَاصِف‎ (mutarāṣif)
• Form VIII: اِرْتَصَفَ‎ (irtaṣafa)
  • Verbal noun: اِرْتِصَاف‎ (irtiṣāf)
  • Active participle: مُرْتَصِف‎ (murtaṣif)
  • Passive participle: مُرْتَصَف‎ (murtaṣaf)
• رَصِيف‎ m (raṣīf, “firm, solid; platform, pier, perron; colleague”)
• رِصَافَة‎ f (riṣāfa, “firmness”)
• رِصَافَ‎ m (riṣāfa, “sinew for strengthening arrows”)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1833), “ر ص 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 155–156
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “ر ص 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 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 870–871
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “ر ص ف”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1094