شارف

• IPA^(key): /ʃaː.ra.fa/

شَارَفَ • (šārafa) III (non-past يُشَارِفُ (yušārifu), verbal noun مُشَارَفَة (mušārafa))

1. to approach
   • 1962, Ghassan Kanafani, رجال في الشمس [Men in the Sun]:

     وَحِينَ شَارَفَ سَيَّارَةَ ٱلْحَاجِ رِضَا ٱلرَّمَادِيَّةَ ٱلْغَارِقَةَ حَتَّى ثَلَاثَةِ أَرْبَاعِ عَجَلَاتِهَا ٱلْوَرَائِيَّةِ فِي ٱلْوَحْلِ، أَوْقَفَ سَيَّارَتَهُ.

     waḥīna šārafa sayyārata l-ḥāji riḍā r-ramādiyyata l-ḡāriqata ḥattā ṯalāṯati ʔarbāʕi ʕajalātihā l-warāʔiyyati fī l-waḥli, ʔawqafa sayyāratahu.

     When he caught up with Haj Rida’s car, whose back wheels were three-quarters sunk in mud, he stopped his car.

2. to supervise, to watch, to command
3. to contend for superiority with

From Arabic شَارِف (šārif).

• IPA^(key): /ʃaː.rif/

شارف • (šārif) (feminine شارفة (šārfa), masculine plural شارفين (šārfīn), feminine plural شارفات (šārfāt), elative أشرف (ʔašraf) or شرف (šraf))

1. old (of people)

   Synonym: كبير (kbīr)

   Antonyms: صغير (ṣḡīr), شاب (šābb)

   Coordinate term: (of things) قديم (qdīm)