تف

تَفِ • (tafi) (form I) /ta.fi/

1. inflection of وَفَى (wafā):
   1. second-person masculine singular non-past active jussive
   2. third-person feminine singular non-past active jussive

From Proto-Iranian, from Proto-Indo-Iranian, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ptyēw- (“to spit, vomit”). Akin to Ossetian ту (tu, “spittle”), Sanskrit ष्ठीवति (ṣṭhīvati, “to spit”), Armenian թուք (tʻukʻ, “spit, spittle”), Serbo-Croatian pljuvati (“to spit”), Ancient Greek πτύω (ptúō, “to spit out”), Latin spuō (“to spit”), English spew.

تف • (tof)

1. spittle, spit

   Synonym: خیو (xayu)

• تف کردن (tof kardan)

Related to Old Armenian տապ (tap, “heat”), an Iranian borrowing. Related to تب (tab).

تف • (taf)

1. flame, heat, warmth

• تف دادن (taf dâdan)

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “تف”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul

Imitative of spitting. Form II means “to utter a тьфу (tʹfu)” (as a common interjection nowadays goes in Russian).

• IPA^(key): /taff/,

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تفّ • (taff) I (present بتفّ (bitiff, bitoff))

1. to spit

• The non-past forms of this verb are typically pronounced with the vowel “i” by Palestinians and “u” by Jordanians.^[1]