ل ف ف

Compare ل ف ت‎ (l-f-t).

ل ف ف • (l-f-f)

1. related to turning around

• Form I: لَفَّ‎ (laffa, “to coil, to curl, to convolute, to spool, to twirl; to wrap, to envelop, to surround; to turn around, to circumgyrate, to make a roundabout, to be around”)
  • Verbal noun: لَفّ‎ (laff)
  • Active participle: لَافّ‎ (lāff)
  • Passive participle: مَلْفُوف‎ (malfūf)
• Form II: لَفَّفَ‎ (laffafa, “to wrap, to envelop, to surround”)
  • Verbal noun: تَلْفِيف‎ (talfīf)
  • Active participle: مُلَفِّف‎ (mulaffif)
  • Passive participle: مُلَفَّف‎ (mulaffaf)
• Form IV: أَلَفَّ‎ (ʾalaffa, “to roll up, to involve”)
  • Verbal noun: إِلْفَاف‎ (ʾilfāf)
  • Active participle: مُلِفّ‎ (muliff)
  • Passive participle: مُلَفّ‎ (mulaff)
• Form V: تَلَفَّفَ‎ (talaffafa, “to be wrapped, to wrap oneself”)
  • Verbal noun: تَلَفُّف‎ (talaffuf)
  • Active participle: مُتَلَفِّف‎ (mutalaffif)
• Form VIII: اِلْتَفَّ‎ (iltaffa, “to squirm, to wind oneself; to wind, to bend, to inflect”)
  • Verbal noun: اِلْتِفَاف‎ (iltifāf)
  • Active participle: مُلْتَفّ‎ (multaff)
  • Passive participle: مُلْتَفّ‎ (multaff)

• لِفَافَة‎ (lifāfa, “swaddling, wrap”)
• لَفِيفَة‎ (lafīfa, “swaddling, wrap”)
• لُوف‎ (lūf, “fibre, sponge”)
• لِيف‎ (līf, “fibre, sponge”)
• مِلَفّ‎ (milaff, “file”)
• مِلَفَّة‎ (milaffa, “file, chart”)
• مِلْفَاف‎ (milfāf, “covering, wrapping”)
• لَفِيف‎ (lafīf, “collected; group”)
• أَلَفّ‎ (ʾalaff, “grave in stature, of a lingering figure, gross”)

• Freytag, Georg (1837), “ل ف ف”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 114–115
• Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “ل ف ف”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 1158–1159