نسف

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Arabic

Root
ن س ف (n s f)
2 terms

Verb

نَسَفَ (nasafa) I (non-past يَنْسِفُ (yansifu), verbal noun نَسْف (nasf))

  1. to winnow up, to overthrow from the ground
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 20:105:
      وَيَسْأَلُونَكَ عَنِ الْجِبَالِ فَقُلْ يَنْسِفُهَا رَبِّي نَسْفًا
      wayasʔalūnaka ʕani l-jibāli faqul yansifuhā rabbī nasfan
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. to blow up, to blow away

Conjugation

Noun

نَسْف (nasfm

  1. verbal noun of نَسَفَ (nasafa) (form I)

Declension

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “نسف”, 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 274
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “نسف”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1269