رفيع

فَعِيل (faʕīl)-type stative-verb derived from the active participle from the verb رَفُعَ (rafuʕa, “to be high; to become thin”).

• IPA^(key): /ra.fiːʕ/

رَفِيع • (rafīʕ) (feminine رَفِيعَة (rafīʕa), masculine plural رَفِيعُونَ (rafīʕūna), feminine plural رَفِيعَات (rafīʕāt), elative أَرْفَع (ʔarfaʕ))

1. (of the character, quality, or reception of a thing, such as a position, a rank, or a style) elevated; high; noble; sublime; fine

   Synonyms: عَال (ʕāl), سَام (sām), شَرِيف (šarīf), نَبِيل (nabīl)

   Antonyms: دَنِيء (danīʔ), مُنْحَطّ (munḥaṭṭ), حَقِير (ḥaqīr), سَافِل (sāfil)

   • a. 1000, المقدسي, edited by Michael Jan de Goeje, أحسن التقاسيم في معرفة الأقاليم  (Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum; 3)‎, Leiden: E. J. Brill, published 1877, 1906, web 1/136, pages 374 m–u:

     وأما أرمينية فإنها كورة جليلة رسمها أرميني بن كنظر بن يافث بن نوح ومنها ترتفع الستور والزَلاليُّ الرفيعة كثيرة الخصائص قصبتها دَبِيل ومن مدنها: بَدْلِيس، خِلَاط، أَرْجِيش، بَرْكَرِي، خُوَيُّ، سَلَمَاس، أُرْمِيَة، دَاخَرَّقَان، مَرَاغَة، أَهْرُ، مَرَنْد، سِنْجَان، قالِيقَلَا، قندرية، قَلْعَة يُونُس، نورين.

     As for Armenia, she is a majestic expanse, originally sketched and contoured by ʾArmīnī, the son of Ashkenaz, himself a descendant of Japheth, one of the sons of Noah. In Armenia, curtains, draperies, and rugs multifarious and fine hang down, the rod being Dabīl. Among her localities are Badlīs , Ḵilāṭ , ʾArjīš , Barkarī , Ḵuway , Salamās , ʾUrmiyah , Dāḵarraqān, Marāḡah, ʾAhr, Marand, Sinjān, Qālīqalā, Qandariyyah, Qalʿat Yūnus, Nūrīn.

2. (chiefly post-Classical, of the thickness of an object) thin; fine

   Synonyms: رَقِيق (raqīq), دَقِيق (daqīq), لَطِيف (laṭīf)

   Antonyms: سَمِيك (samīk), ثَخِين (ṯaḵīn)

   1. (of a person) slim; lean

      Synonyms: see Thesaurus:ar:underweight

      Antonyms: see Thesaurus:ar:overweight

3. (post-Classical, of someone's voice or, less commonly, any sound) high-pitched; sharp

   Synonym: حَادّ (ḥādd)

4. (obsolete, of someone's voice) raised; loud

   Synonyms: عَالٍ (ʕālin), جَهِير (jahīr)

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

From Arabic رَفِيع (rafīʕ).

• IPA^(key): /rfiːʕ/,

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رفيع • (rfīʕ) (feminine رفيعة (rfīʕa), common plural رفاع (rfāʕ), elative أرفع (ʔarfaʕ))

1. thin, slender, slim (usually something round, but not flat)

   Antonym: (flat object) رقيق (rʔīʔ)

   Antonym: خميل (ḵmīl)

2. high-pitched