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单词 زلف
释义

زلف

See also: زلق

Arabic

Etymology 1

From the root ز ل ف (z-l-f), a variant of the better-known س ل ف (s-l-f).

Verb

زَلَفَ (zalafa) I, non-past يَزْلُفُ‎ (yazlufu) (archaic)

  1. to get close, to near, to advance
    • 7th century CE, Ṣaḥīḥ al-Buḵāriyy, 2:34:
      إِذَا أَسْلَمَ الْعَبْدُ فَحَسُنَ إِسْلَامُهُ يُكَفِّرُ اللّٰهُ عَنْهُ كُلَّ سَيِّئَةٍ كَانَ زَلَفَهَا
      ʾiḏā ʾaslama l-ʿabdu faḥasuna ʾislāmuhu yukaffiru llāhu ʿanhu kulla sayyiʾatin kāna zalafahā
      I someone becomes muslim sincerely then Allah remits all [sins] that he has come near.
Conjugation

Verb

زَلَّفَ (zallafa) II, non-past يُزَلِّفُ‎ (yuzallifu) (archaic)

  1. to do it before, to execute earlier
  2. to exaggerate, to fudge
Conjugation

Noun

زَلْف (zalf) m (archaic)

  1. verbal noun of زَلَفَ (zalafa) (form I)
Declension

Noun

زَلَف (zalaf) m (archaic)

  1. verbal noun of زَلَفَ (zalafa) (form I)
  2. grovelling, flattery by coming close in a respect
Declension

Noun

زُلَف (zulaf) pl (archaic)

  1. plural of زُلْفَة (zulfa)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Classical Syriac ܙܠܦܐ (zalpā, zelpā), singulative ܙܠܦܬܐ (zlap̄ṯă, zelpǝṯā, shard; mother of pearl).

Noun

زَلَف or زِلْف (zalaf or zilf) m (collective, singulative زَلَفة f (zalafa) or زِلْفَة f (zilfa)) (obsolete)

  1. mother-of-pearl-shell
    • 7th century CE, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, 54:134:
      ثُمَّ يُرْسِلُ اللّٰهُ مَطَرًا لَا يَكُنُّ مِنْهُ بَيْتُ مَدَرٍ وَلَا وَبَرٍ فَيَغْسِلُ الأَرْضَ حَتَّى يَتْرُكَهَا كَالزَّلَفَةِ
      ṯumma yursilu llāhu maṭaran lā yakunnu minhu baytu madarin walā wabarin fayaḡsilu l-ʾarḍa ḥattā yatrukahā ka-z-zalafati
      Then God will send rain and there will be no brickhouse and no tent and he washes the earth, so that he leaves it blank like a nacre-shell.
Declension

References

  • Ullmann, Manfred (1992) Das Motiv des Spiegels in der arabischen Literatur des Mittelalters (Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen: Philologisch-historische Klasse; 198) (in German), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, page 22–24, he notes and definitely proves with poet citations that the other meanings given in the dictionaries are imaginary.
  • zlph”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–

Persian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Compare زلفین (zolfin), زرفین (zorfin), which last has also been borrowed in Arabic زُرْفِين (zurfīn, ring; bolt or ring of a door; column capital particularly with volutes), زُرُّوف (zurrūf, curl in the hair), denominal زَرْفَنَ (zarfana, to crook, to make curly; to mark with a figure of a ring or curl).

Noun

زلف (zolf)

  1. curl, tress
    تیره زلفtire zolfdark hair
    • c. 800 CE, Firooz :
      سرو سیمین ترا در مشک تر
      زلف فرخالت ز سر تا پا گرفت

Derived terms

  • زلف بافته (zolf bâfte, a braid)

Descendants

  • Armenian: զըլիֆ (zəlif), զիլիֆ (zilif), զուլֆ (zulf), զյուլֆ (zyulf)
  • Azerbaijani: zülf
  • Bengali: জুলফি (zulfi)
  • Hindustani:
    Hindi: ज़ुल्फ़ (zulf)
    Urdu: زلف
  • Northern Kurdish: zulf, zilf, zilif
  • Ottoman Turkish: زلف (zülüf, zülf)
    • Turkish: zülüf
    • Romanian: zuluf
  • Crimean Tatar: zuluf

References

  • Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–), زلف”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), زلف”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
  • Vullers, Johann August (1855), زلف”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum (in Latin), volume I, Bonn: Adolf Marcus, page 138
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