أفق

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Arabic

Etymology 1

Root
ء ف ق (ʔ f q)
1 term

Verb

أَفَقَ (ʔafaqa) I (non-past يَأْفِقُ (yaʔfiqu), verbal noun أَفْق (ʔafq)) (archaic)

  1. to attain, to reach
  2. to surpass, to outrange
Conjugation

Noun

أُفُق (ʔufuqm (plural آفَاق (ʔāfāq))

  1. verbal noun of أَفَقَ (ʔafaqa) (form I)
  2. horizon
    • 2018 January 9, “مجلس السعدية: 550 إصابة بحبة بغداد في مجمع حمرين ولا توجد ةدون وجود جرع للعلاج”, in The Baghdad Post:
      [نائب رئيس مجلس ناحية السعدية في محافظة ديالى عدنان إسماعيل] مضيفًا أن "المركز الصحي في المجمع يفتقر الى لقاحات مرض حبة بغداد بشكل عام ولا توجد فيه جرعة علاج واحدة الان"، داعيا وزارة الصحة الى "التدخل بأسرع وقت ممكن لإنقاذ قرى حمرين من كارثة صحية اصبحت تلوح في الافق".
      Adding that “the health centre in the community misses vaccines against leishmaniasis in a general extent and there is now not a single treatment dose in it”, calling out the Ministry of Health to “intervene in the shortest possible time to save the villages of Ḥamrīn from a health disaster that looms in the horizon”.
  3. field of vision
  4. climate, region, country (esp. outlying regions)
  5. distant land
  6. (chiefly in the plural) the wide world
Declension

Descendants

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “أفق”, 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, pages 43–44
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “أفق”, 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 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 40
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “أفق”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 68–68
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “أفق”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “أفق”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 31

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

أفق (form I)

  1. أَفِقُ (ʔafiqu) /ʔa.fi.qu/: first-person singular non-past active indicative of وَفِقَ (wafiqa)
  2. أَفِقَ (ʔafiqa) /ʔa.fi.qa/: first-person singular non-past active subjunctive of وَفِقَ (wafiqa)
  3. أَفِقْ (ʔafiq) /ʔa.fiq/: first-person singular non-past active jussive of وَفِقَ (wafiqa)