حنفية

Arabic

حَنَفِيَّة

Etymology

Relative noun (nisba) composed of حَنَف (ḥanaf) + ـِيَّة (-iyya), from the root ح ن ف (ḥ-n-f).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ħa.na.fij.ja/

Noun

حَنَفِيَّة (ḥanafiyya) f (plural حَنَفِيَّات (ḥanafiyyāt))

  1. faucet, spigottap
    Synonym: صُنْبُور (ṣunbūr)
  2. (Islam, Christianity) paganism, heathendom
  3. (Islam) Hanafism, a certain school of jurisprudence

Declension

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1835), حنفية”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 436
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), حنفية”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 300
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