خرفة

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Arabic

Root
خ ر ف (ḵ r f)
7 terms

Pronunciation

Noun

خُرْفَة (ḵurfaf

  1. collected fruits, harvest, yield
    • 7th century CE, Jamīʿ at-Tirmiḏiyy, 10:3-4:
      ”إِنَّ الْمُسْلِمَ إِذَا عَادَ أَخَاهُ الْمُسْلِمَ لَمْ يَزَلْ فِي خُرْفَةِ الْجَنَّةِ“ (…) قِيلَ مَا خُرْفَةُ الْجَنَّةِ قَالَ ”جَنَاهَا“
      ”ʔinna l-muslima ʔiḏā ʕāda ʔaḵāhu l-muslima lam yazal fī ḵurfati l-jannati“ (…) qīla mā ḵurfatu l-jannati qāla ”janāhā“
      “Indeed the Muslim remains in the yield of Paradise while he visits his brother Muslim.” He was asked: “What is the yield of Paradise?” He said: ”Its harvest.”

Declension

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “خرفة”, 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 478
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “خرفة”, 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 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, pages –562