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Arabic
Root
ف و ف • (f-w-f)
- related to whiteness and/or covering
Derived terms
- Form I: فَافَ (fāfa, “to indicate that you will give someone nothing by putting your thumbnail on your index fingernail as if to say "you won't even get that much".”)
- Verbal noun: فَوف
- Active participle: فَائِف (fāʔif)
- Passive participle: مَفُوف (mafūf)
References
- Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ف و ف”, 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), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 647
- Wehr, Hans (1960) “ف و ف”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz, page 732