نافلة

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Arabic

Root
ن ف ل (n-f-l)

Pronunciation

Noun

نَافِلَة (nāfilaf (plural نَوَافِل (nawāfil))

  1. (Islam) supererogatory prayer
  2. supererogation; expendable; redundancy; luxury item
  3. (archaic) gift, giveaway
  4. (archaic) booty, loot

Declension

Descendants

  • Azerbaijani: nafilə
  • Ottoman Turkish: نافله (nafile)
  • Persian: نافله

References

  • نافلة” in Almaany
  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “نافلة”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 317
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “نافلة”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1301