صوف

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Arabic

Root
ص و ف (ṣ w f)
3 terms

Etymology 1.1

Pronunciation

Verb

صَوِفَ (ṣawifa) I (non-past يَصْوَفُ (yaṣwafu), verbal noun صَوَف (ṣawaf))

  1. to produce wool, to increase its wool (of sheep, etc.)
Conjugation

Etymology 1.2

Pronunciation

Verb

صَوَّفَ (ṣawwafa) II (non-past يُصَوِّفُ (yuṣawwifu), verbal noun تَصْوِيف (taṣwīf))

  1. to produce wool, to increase its wool (of sheep, etc.)
  2. to make someone Sufi
  3. to have cotton-like fungus (see the image) (of plants)
  4. (intransitive) to decay (to have wool-like fungus)
Conjugation

Etymology 1.3

Pronunciation

Noun

صُوف (ṣūfm (collective, singulative صُوفَة f (ṣūfa), plural أَصْوَاف (ʔaṣwāf))

  1. wool
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Malay: suf
  • Swahili: sufi, sufu

Sindhi

Etymology

From Persian.

Noun

صوف (sūfu) (Devanagari spelling सूफ़ु)

  1. apple