ش ف ي

ش ف ي

Arabic

Etymology

From شَفَة‎ (šafa, “lip; brink, border”): originally شُفِيَ‎ (šufiya, “to have one’s health restored”) literally meant “to be unbrinked”, “to be snatched from the brink of death”.

Root

ش ف ي • (š-f-y)

1. related to healing

Derived terms

• Form I: شَفَى‎ (šafā, “to heal”)
  • Verbal noun: شِفَاء‎ (šifāʾ)
  • Active participle: شَافٍ‎ (šāfin)
  • Passive participle: مَشْفِيّ‎ (mašfiyy)
• Form IV: أَشْفَى‎ (ʾašfā, “to medicate, to apply leechdom to, to recover to convalescence”)
  • Verbal noun: إِشْفَاء‎ (ʾišfāʾ)
  • Active participle: مُشْفٍ‎ (mušfin)
  • Passive participle: مُشْفًى‎ (mušfan)
• Form V: تَشَفَّى‎ (tašaffā, “to recover, to find sanity again, to find satisfaction”)
  • Verbal noun: تَشَفٍّ‎ (tašaffin)
  • Active participle: مُتَشَفٍّ‎ (mutašaffin)
• Form VIII: اِشْتَفَى‎ (ištafā, “to be healed; to be content or satisfied”)
  • Verbal noun: اِشْتِفَاء‎ (ištifāʾ)
  • Active participle: مُشْتَفٍ‎ (muštafin)
• Form X: اِسْتَشْفَى‎ (istašfā, “to seek treatment at”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِشْفَاء‎ (istišfāʾ)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَشْفٍ‎ (mustašfin)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَشْفًى‎ (mustašfan)

• مُسْتَشْفًى‎ (mustašfan, “hospital”)
• مَشْفًى‎ (mašfan, “hospital”)
• أَشْفَى‎ (ʾašfā, “more potent of healing”)

Related terms

• ش ف و‎ (š-f-w)
• سَوْفَ‎ (sawfa)

References

• Corriente, Federico; Pereira, Christophe; Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017) Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, page 716 derives from ف ي ء‎ (f-y-ʾ), and senses of satisfaction from ع ف و‎ (ʿ-f-w)
• Freytag, Georg (1833), “ش ف ي”, 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, page 436b
• Haupt, Paul (1917), “Syriac sífṯâ, lip, and sáu̮pâ, end”, in Journal of the Society of Oriental Research‎, volume 1, page 92
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “ش ف ي”, 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 C^ie, pages 1251b–1252a
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “ش ف ي”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1574a–1575c