ريف

An ancient borrowing of Egyptian r(ꜣ)-pr (“temple”), due to agricultural properties (i.e., lands) in Egypt—which Bedouins roamed—having been administered by temples. The similarity to Akkadian 𒊑𒅁𒄣 (ri-ip-qu /⁠ripqu⁠/, “field broken up for cultivation”) is coincidental.

رِيف • (rīf) m (plural أَرْيَاف (ʔaryāf))

1. countryside, rural area, thorp land

• رَافَ (rāfa, “to approach the countryside; to abide in the village”)
• رَيَّفَ (rayyafa, “to give rural character to”)
• أَرْيَفَ (ʔaryafa, “to approach the countryside; to abide in the village; to abound in produce”)
• تَرَيَّفَ (tarayyafa, “to approach the countryside; to abide in the village”)
• رِيفِيّ (rīfiyy, “connected to the countryside”)

• → Classical Mandaic: ࡓࡉࡐࡀ

Denominal verb of رِيف (rīf).

رَيَّفَ • (rayyafa) II (non-past يُرَيِّفُ (yurayyifu), verbal noun تَرْيِيف (taryīf))

1. to give rural character too

• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 571
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ريف”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1202