أفك

• IPA^(key): /ʔa.fa.ka/

أَفَكَ • (ʔafaka) I (non-past يَأْفِكُ (yaʔfiku), verbal noun أَفْك (ʔafk) or إِفْك (ʔifk) or أُفُوك (ʔufūk))

1. (obsolete) to change one’s state, to turn
2. (obsolete) to turn away or back, to convert or pervert
3. (archaic) to beguile, to delude, particularly by a lie; to lie, to tell a lie

أَفِكَ • (ʔafika) I (non-past يَأْفَكُ (yaʔfaku), verbal noun أَفَك (ʔafak) or إِفْك (ʔifk))

1. (obsolete) to suffer penury of water and hence produce no plants
2. (obsolete) to be gullible, deluded or imprudent, to be weak or misled in judgment
3. (archaic) to lie, to tell a lie

• Freytag, Georg (1830) “أفك”, 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
• Баранов, Х. К. (2011) “أفك”, in Большой арабско-русский словарь (Bolʹšoj arabsko-russkij slovarʹ), 11th edition, Москва: Живой язык, →ISBN
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “أفك”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 69b
• Wehr, Hans (1960) “أفك”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (2020) “أفك”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 6th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 22a