ز ي ف

ز ي ف • (z-y-f)

(obsolete)

1. related to having something elegant hanging at the border

• Form I: زَافَ‎ (zāfa, “to drag an elegant tail behind oneself; to walk in a proud fashion”)
  • Verbal noun: زَيْف‎ (zayf), زَيَفَان‎ (zayafān)
  • Active participle: زَائِف‎ (zāʾif)
• Form V: تَزَيَّفَ‎ (tazayyafa, “to adorn oneself”)
  • Verbal noun: تَزَيُّف‎ (tazayyuf)
  • Active participle: مُتَزَيِّف‎ (mutazayyif)

• زَيْف‎ (zayf, “ledge, cornice, coping, border, shroud (prominent part of something, hanging from a building or cloth”)
• زَيَّاف‎ (zayyāf, “walking proud”)

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “ز ي ف”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 619
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 195–196
• Freytag, Georg (1833), “ز ي ف”, 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 270
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “ز ي ف”, 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 C^ie, pages 1032–1033
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “ز ي ف”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1277
• Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “ز ي ف”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 541