صحيفة

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See also: صحیفه and صحیفہ

Arabic

Root
ص ح ف (ṣ-ḥ-f)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sˤa.ħiː.fa/
  • (file)

Noun

صَحِيفَة (ṣaḥīfaf (plural صُحُف (ṣuḥuf) or صَحَائِف (ṣaḥāʔif))

  1. newspaper
    Synonym: جَرِيدَة (jarīda)
  2. journal, ephemeris
  3. a loose piece of paper on which has been written, a sheet, letters, paper
    • 7th century CE, Ṣaḥīḥ al-Buḵāriyy, 66:9:
      أَرْسِلِي إِلَيْنَا بِالصُّحُفِ نَنْسَخُهَا فِي الْمَصَاحِفِ ثُمَّ نَرُدُّهَا إِلَيْكِ
      ʔarsilī ʔilay-nā bi-ṣ-ṣuḥufi nansaḵu-hā fī l-maṣāḥifi ṯumma naruddu-hā ʔilay-ki
      Send to us the sheets so we can transcribe manuscripts from them and thereafter we will return them.
  4. an amount of paper in a bound work, a page or leaf of a physical book, a sheet such as a كُرَّاسَة (kurrāsa), record
  5. surface, exterior, outer skin, epidermis

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