صفة

From the root و ص ف‎ (w-ṣ-f); compare وَصَفَ‎ (waṣafa, “to describe, to characterize”).

• IPA^(key): /sˁi.fa/

صِفَة • (ṣifa) f (plural صِفَات‎ (ṣifāt))

1. verbal noun of وَصَفَ‎ (waṣafa) (form I)
2. quality, feature, characteristic
3. (grammar) adjective

   Hyponyms: صِفَة مُشَبَّهَة‎ (ṣifa(t) mušabbaha), اِسْم فَاعِل‎ (ism fāʿil), اِسْم مَفْعُول‎ (ism mafʿūl), اِسْم تَفْضِيل‎ (ism tafḍīl)

4. (linguistics) feature
5. attribute

• Armenian: սֆաթ (sfatʿ), սփաթ (spʿatʿ)
• Azerbaijani: sifət
• Georgian: სიფათი (sipati)
• Ottoman Turkish: صفت‎ (sıfat)
  • Turkish: sıfat
• Persian: صفت‎ (sefat)
• Tajik: сифат (sifat)
• Urdu: صفت‎ (sifat)
• Uyghur: سۈپەت‎ (süpet)
• Zazaki: sifet

• Carter, Michael George (2017), “The Seven Deadly Sins of Arabic Studies”, in Manuel Sartori, Manuela E. B. Giolfo, Philippe Cassuto, editors, Approaches to the History and Dialectology of Arabic in Honor of Pierre Larcher (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics; 88), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 521–522, 527–531

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “صفة”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen

From Aramaic צפא‎ (ṣipā’, “mat”).

• IPA^(key): /sˁuf.fa/

صُفَّة • (ṣuffa) f (plural صُفَف‎ (ṣufaf))

1. bench

   ‏أَهْلُ الصُّفَّةِ‎ ― ʾahlu ṣ-ṣuffati ― the companions of Mohammed

2. stone bench
3. sofa
4. sill, shelf, console
5. a small part, a little of
6. a short while, a trice
7. seat of a saddle

• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 287–288
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “صفة”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen