ليف

Arabic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the root ل ف ف (l-f-f) meaning "to fold up or roll up in", "to wrap or envelop", "an envelope of a plant, a pericarp or glume".

Noun

لِيف (līf) m (collective, singulative لِيفَة (līfa), plural أَلْيَاف (ʾalyāf))

  1. fibres, spongy interior of a plant
  2. sponge as tool
  3. Luffa gen. et spp.

Declension

Verb

لَيَّفَ (layyafa) II, non-past يُلَيِّفُ‎ (yulayyifu)

  1. to have much fibre
  2. to rub with fibre or a sponge

Conjugation

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1837), ليف”, 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, page 141
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), ليف”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1177
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