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Arabic
Etymology
Cognate to Aramaic ה־פ־כ / ܗ-ܦ-ܟ (h-p-k) where in particular ܗܦܰܟ݂ (hp̄aḵ, “to turn, to revert, to change etc.; to be converted; to be perverted, to renege”)
Root
ء ف ك • (ʔ f k)
- related to lies
Derived terms
- إِفْك (ʔifk, “lie”)
- أَفِيكَة (ʔafīka, “a lie; a distressing calamity”)
- أَفَّاك (ʔaffāk, “liar”)
- أَفِيك (ʔafīk, “one who is deluded, one who lacks prudence”)
- آفِكَة (ʔāfika, “a punishment sent by God whereby the dwellings are overturned”)
References
- “hpk”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
- Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 58
- Freytag, Georg (1830) “ء ف ك”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 44
- Lane, Edward William (1863) “ء ف ك”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 69b–70a
- Wehr, Hans (1979) “ء ف ك”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 25a
- Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (2020) “ء ف ك”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 6th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 22a