قافية

Derived from the feminine form of active participle of the verb قَفَا (qafā).

• IPA^(key): /qaː.fi.ja/

قَافِيَة • (qāfiya) f (plural قَافِيَات (qāfiyāt) or قَوَافٍ (qawāfin))

1. nape of the neck
   • 7th century CE, Sunan Ibn Mājah, section 5:

     يَعْقِدُ الشَّيْطَانُ عَلَى قَافِيَةِ رَأْسِ أَحَدِكُمْ بِاللَّيْلِ بِحَبْلٍ فِيهِ ثَلَاثُ عُقَدٍ فَإِنِ ٱسْتَيْقَظَ فَذَكَرَ ٱللَّهَ ٱنْحَلَّتْ عُقْدَةٌ فَإِذَا قَامَ فَتَوَضَّأَ ٱنْحَلَّتْ عُقْدَةٌ فَإِذَا قَامَ إِلَى ٱلصَّلَاةِ ٱنْحَلَّتْ عُقَدُهُ كُلُّهَا

     yaʕqidu š-šayṭānu ʕalā qāfiyati raʔsi ʔaḥadi-kum bi-l-layli bi-ḥablin fī-hi ṯalāṯu ʕuqadin fa-ʔini stayqaẓa fa-ḏakara l-laha nḥallat ʕuqdatun fa-ʔiḏā qāma fa-tawaḍḍaʔa nḥallat ʕuqdatun fa-ʔiḏā qāma ʔilā ṣ-ṣalāti nḥallat ʕuqadu-hū kullu-hā

     At night Satan ties a rope in which there are three knots to the nape of the neck of anyone of you. If he wakes up and remembers Allah, one knot is untied. If he performs ablution, another knot is untied, and if he gets up to pray, all the knots are untied.

2. rhyme
   • a. 684, معن بن أوس , فيا عجباً لمن ربيت طفلاً :

     وَكَمْ عَلَّمْتُهُ نَظْمَ الْقَوَافِي / فَلَمَّا قَالَ قَافِيَةً هَجَانِي

     wakam ʕallamtuhū naẓma al-qawāfī / falammā qāla qāfiyatan hajānī

     And how often I taught him to compose rhymes / and when he told one, he mocked me.

• → Azerbaijani: qafiyə
• → Middle Armenian: կաֆայ (kafay)
  • Armenian: կաֆա (kafa)
• → Old Armenian: կափայ (kapʻay)
• → Ottoman Turkish: قافیه
  • Turkish: kafiye
  • Crimean Tatar: qafiye
• → Persian: قافیه (qâfiye)
  • → Hindustani:

    Hindi: क़ाफ़िया (qāfiyā)

    Urdu: قافیہ (qāfiyā)

• → Turkmen: قاپىيە
• → Uyghur: kapyýa
• → Uzbek: qofiya