تف

تَفِ • (tafi) (form I)

1. second-person masculine singular non-past active jussive of وَفَى‎ (wafā)
2. third-person feminine singular non-past active jussive of وَفَى‎ (wafā)

From Proto-Iranian, from Proto-Indo-Iranian, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ptyēw- (“to spit, vomit”). Akin to Ossetian ту (tu, “spittle”), Sanskrit ष्ठीवति (ṣṭhīvati, “to spit”), Armenian թուք (tʿukʿ, “spit, spittle”), Serbo-Croatian pljuvati (“to spit”), Ancient Greek πτύω (ptúō, “to spit out”), Latin spuō (“to spit”), English spew.

تف • (tof)

1. spittle

• تف کردن‎ (tof kardan)

Related to Old Armenian տապ (tap, “heat”), an Iranian borrowing. Related to تب‎ (tab).

تف • (taf)

1. flame, heat, warmth

• تف دادن‎ (taf dâdan)

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “تف”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul