خ ر ف

خ ر ف • (ḵ-r-f)

1. related to ripeness and fruit loss

Verbs

• Form I: خَرَفَ (ḵarafa, “to pluck off”)
  • Verbal noun: خَرْف (ḵarf), خِراف (ḵirāf), خَرَاف (ḵarāf), مَخْرَف (maḵraf)
  • Active participle: خَارِف (ḵārif)
  • Passive participle: مَخْرُوف (maḵrūf)
• Form I: خَرِفَ (ḵarifa, “to be senile, to lose fruits”)
  • Verbal noun: خَرَف (ḵaraf)
  • Active participle: ?
  • Passive participle: مَخْرُوف (maḵrūf)
• Form II: خَرَّفَ (ḵarrafa, “to blather; to call somebody senile”)
  • Verbal noun: تَخْرِيف (taḵrīf)
  • Active participle: مُخَرِّف (muḵarrif)
  • Passive participle: مُخَرَّف (muḵarraf)
• Form III: خَارَفَ (ḵārafa, “to deal with someone in autumn”)
  • Verbal noun: مُخَارَفَة (muḵārafa)
  • Active participle: مُخَارِف (muḵārif)
  • Passive participle: مُخَارَف (muḵāraf)
• Form IV: أَخْرَفَ (ʔaḵrafa, “to enter autumn; to spoil, to corrupt”)
  • Verbal noun: إِخْرَاف (ʔiḵrāf)
  • Active participle: مُخْرِف (muḵrif)
  • Passive participle: مُخْرَف (muḵraf)
• Form VIII: اِخْتَرَفَ (iḵtarafa, “to pluck off”)
  • Verbal noun: اِخْتِرَاف (iḵtirāf)
  • Active participle: مُخْتَرِف (muḵtarif)
  • Passive participle: مُخْتَرَف (muḵtaraf)

Nouns

• خُرَافَة (ḵurāfa, “plucked fruits; senile talk”)
• مَخْرَفَة (maḵrafa, “garden; garden path; senile talk”)
• خُرْفَة (ḵurfa, “collected fruits”)
• خَرِيف (ḵarīf, “leaves fallen in autumn; autumn; river watering a garden; autumn rain”)
• خَرِيفَة (ḵarīfa, “leased palm”); pl. خَرَئِف (ḵaraʔif)
• خَرُوف (ḵarūf, “young sheep”); pl. خِراف (ḵirāf), خِرْفَان (ḵirfān), أَخْرِفَة (ʔaḵrifa)
• تَخْرِيف (taḵrīf, “folly; dellusion; drivel”)

Adjectives

• خَرِيف (ḵarīf, “plucked”)
• خَرِف (ḵarif, “dotardly, senile”)
• خَرْفَان (ḵarfān, “dotardly, senile”)

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “خ ر ف”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 367–368
• Freytag, Georg (1830) “خ ر 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 478
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “خ ر 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 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 561–562
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “خ ر ف”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 725-727
• Rundgren, Frithiof (1969) “Arabisches xarīf- „Herbst“ und xarūf- „Lamm“”, in Orientalia Suecana‎ (in German), volume 18, pages 137–141