ثقف

ثَقِفَ • (ṯaqifa) I (non-past يَثْقَفُ (yaṯqafu), verbal noun ثَقْف (ṯaqf) or ثَقَف (ṯaqaf))
ثَقُفَ • (ṯaqufa) I (non-past يَثْقُفُ (yaṯqufu), verbal noun ثَقَافَة (ṯaqāfa))

1. to have a sharp and penetrating intellect
2. to be clever and successful
3. to surpass in intellect

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ثقف”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen

ثَقِفَ • (ṯaqifa) I (non-past يَثْقَفُ (yaṯqafu), verbal noun ثَقَف (ṯaqaf))

1. to meet
2. to reach
3. to seize, to take hold of
4. to understand
5. to obtain, to find

   Synonyms: وَجَدَ (wajada), أَلْفَى (ʔalfā)

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 3:112:

     ضُرِبَتْ عَلَيْهِمُ الذِّلَّةُ أَيْنَ مَا ثُقِفُوا إِلَّا بِحَبْلٍ مِنَ اللَّهِ وَحَبْلٍ مِنَ النَّاسِ

     ḍuribat ʕalayhimu ḏ-ḏillatu ʔayna mā ṯuqifū ʔillā biḥablin mina l-lahi waḥablin mina n-nāsi

     Ignominy shall be their portion wheresoever they are found save (where they grasp) a rope from Allah and a rope from men.

     Translation by Marmaduke Pickthall

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ثقف”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen

ثَقَّفَ • (ṯaqqafa) II (non-past يُثَقِّفُ (yuṯaqqifu), verbal noun تَثْقِيف (taṯqīf))

1. to straighten
2. to educate, to refine
3. to correct
4. to confiscate
5. to arrest

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ثقف”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “ثقف”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

ثَقْف or ثَقَف • (ṯaqf or ṯaqaf) m

1. verbal noun of ثَقِفَ (ṯaqifa) (form I)

Learned borrowing from Arabic ثَقَّفَ (ṯaqqafa).

• IPA^(key): /θaq.qaf/,

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ثقّف • (ṯaqqaf) II (present بثقّف (biṯaqqef))

1. to educate, to acculture