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Arabic
Etymology
From Old South Arabian 𐩩𐩡𐩰 (tlf, “to perish”), 𐩠𐩩𐩡𐩰 (htlf, “to ruin”), metathetical to لَفَتَ (lafata, “to twist”).
Root
ت ل ف • (t-l-f)
- forms words related to perishing, annihilation
Derived terms
References
- Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, pages 222–223
- Freytag, Georg (1830) “ت ل ف”, 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 197
- Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ت ل ف”, 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 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, pages 204–205
- Lane, Edward William (1863) “ت ل ف”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 312–313
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ت ل ف”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 186
- Wehr, Hans (1979) “ت ل ف”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 116