حف

حَفَّ • (ḥaffa) I (non-past يَحُفُّ (yaḥuffu), verbal noun حَفّ (ḥaff) or حِفَاف (ḥifāf))

1. to surround, to enclose, to encompass, to border
   • 1355 CE, Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, “الشام”, in Darwīsh Al-Juwaydiyy, editor, رحلة ابن بطوطة, volume 1, Al-Maktabah Al-ʿAṣriyyah, published 2005, →ISBN, page 66:

     ثُمَّ وصلتُ إلى مدينة طرابلس. وهي إحدى قواعد الشام وبلدانها الضخام. تخترقها الأنهار، وتَحُفُّهَا البساتين والأشجار، ويكنفها البحر بمرافقه العميقة، والبر بخيراته المقيمة، ولها الأسواق العجيبة، والمسارحُ الخصيبة، […]

     I came next to the town of Atrabulus , one of the capitals of Syria and of its great cities, traversed by flowing streams, and surrounded by gardens and trees, flanked by the sea with its copious resources and by the land with its sustaining bounties, and possessed of admirable bazaars and fertile lands.

     Translated by H. A. R. Gibb

2. to surround with, to cause to be surrounded by
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 18:32:

     وَٱضْرِبْ لَهُم مَثَلًا رَجُلَيْنِ جَعَلْنَا لِأَحَدِهِمَا جَنَّتَيْنِ مِنْ أَعْنَابٍ وَحَفَفْنَاهُمَا بِنَخْلٍ وَجَعَلْنَا بَيْنَهُمَا زَرْعًا

     waḍrib lahum maṯalan rajulayni jaʕalnā liʔaḥadihimā jannatayni min ʔaʕnābin waḥafafnāhumā binaḵlin wajaʕalnā baynahumā zarʕan

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• Lane, Edward William (1863) “حف”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “حف”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen

حَفَّ • (ḥaffa) I (non-past يَحِفُّ (yaḥiffu), verbal noun حَفّ (ḥaff) or حِفَاف (ḥifāf))

1. to clip short the hair of, to pluck out the hair of
2. to shave
3. to rub off, to scrape off, to erase

• Lane, Edward William (1863) “حف”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “حف”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen

حَفَّ • (ḥaffa) I (non-past يَحُفُّ (yaḥuffu), verbal noun حَفّ (ḥaff))

1. to shave

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

حَفَّ • (ḥaffa) I (non-past يَحِفُّ (yaḥiffu), verbal noun حُفُوف (ḥufūf))

1. to be disheveled
2. to bear dry herbs
3. to vanish entirely

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

حَفَّ • (ḥaffa) I (non-past يَحِفُّ (yaḥiffu), verbal noun حَفِيف (ḥafīf))

1. to rumble (bowels)
2. to snort
3. to hiss (snake)

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

حَفّ • (ḥaff) m

1. verbal noun of حَفَّ (ḥaffa) (form I)
2. loom
3. trace

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