رف

See also: رق

Arabic

Etymology 1

Disputed etymology:

  • Natively from the root ر ف ف (r-f-f) in the sense of an outstretched wing being symbolic of protection, a coverlet; hence originally an awning or covering; semantically becoming a story or tier of a building as each window would feature such a cloth shelf above it. Parallel semantic conception found with Hebrew רפפות (window shutters; a collection of layered thin strips) and Western Neo-Aramaic ܪܦ (rap, level, story; room, chamber).
  • Natively from the root ر ف ف (r-f-f) in the sense of stretching elbows out on a pillow or cushion, stemming from an outstretched wing; hence a place to place things, a place to spread things out on.
  • From Aramaic found in its descendant Western Neo-Aramaic ܪܦ (rap, level, story; room, chamber) of uncertain etymology, but considered likely foreign or possibly even borrowed from Arabic; as for a foreign source possibly connected to Proto-Indo-European *h₁rebʰ-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /raff/
  • (file)

Noun

رَفّ (raff) m (plural رُفُوف (rufūf) or رِفَاف (rifāf) or أَرْفُف (ʾarfuf))

  1. sill; shelf; whatnot
Declension

Etymology 2

From the root ر ف ف (r-f-f).

Verb

رَفَّ (raffa) I, non-past يَرِفُّ‎ (yariffu)

  1. to gleam
Conjugation

Verb

رَفَّ (raffa) I, non-past يَرُفُّ or يَرِفُّ‎ (yaruffu or yariffu)

  1. to tremble, to flutter, to twitch
  2. to flicker, to glint
Conjugation

Verb

رَفَّ (raffa) I, non-past يَرُفُّ or يَرِفُّ‎ (yaruffu or yariffu)

  1. to serve diligently (لِ (li) someone)
Conjugation

Noun

رَفّ (raff) m

  1. verbal noun of رَفَّ (raffa) (form I)
Declension

References

  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 13
  • Freytag, Georg (1833), رف”, 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 170
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), رف”, 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 Cie, page 892
  • Lane, Edward William (1863), رف”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1115–1116
  • Wehr, Hans (1979), رف”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 403
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), رف”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 483

Persian

Etymology

Possible cognate with English rift; for more see Proto-Indo-European *h₁rebʰ- and the Arabic above. (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Noun

رف (raf)

  1. rack
  2. shelf
  3. ledge
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