سفاح

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Arabic

Etymology

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /si.faːħ/ (fornication)
  • IPA(key): /saf.faːħ/ (assassin)

Noun

سِفَاح (sifāḥm

  1. verbal noun of سَافَحَ (sāfaḥa) (form III)
  2. fornication

Declension

Related terms

Noun

سَفَّاح (saffāḥm

  1. bloodshedder, murderer

Declension

References

  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “سفاح”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “سفاح”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “سفاح”, 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), Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “سفاح”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
  • Баранов, Х. К. (2011) “سفاح”, in Большой арабско-русский словарь (Bolʹšoj arabsko-russkij slovarʹ), 11th edition, Москва: Живой язык, →ISBN