ق ف ف

Likely a variant of ج ف ف‎ (j-f-f).

ق ف ف • (q-f-f)

1. related to ruffling, shriveling

• Form I: قَفَّ‎ (qaffa, “to ruffle, to shrivel”)
  • Verbal noun: قُفُوف‎ (qufūf), فَفِيف‎ (fafīf)
  • Active participle: قَافّ‎ (qāff)
• Form IV: أَقَفَّ‎ (ʾaqaffa, “to cease to procreate; to stop to have tears”)
  • Verbal noun: إِقْفَاف‎ (ʾiqfāf)
  • Active participle: مُقِفّ‎ (muqiff)
• Form X: اِسْتَقَفَّ‎ (istaqaffa, “to be contracted and corrugated”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِقْفَاف‎ (istiqfāf)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَقِفّ‎ (mustaqiff)

• قُفّ‎ (quff, “high and rugged ground”)
• قُفَّة‎ (quffa, “fevery shiver, ague fit; dried cucumber”)

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• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “ق ف 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 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 786
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• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “ق ف ف”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 848
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