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Arabic
Root
ح ف ر • (ḥ-f-r)
- related to digging
Derived terms
- حُفْرَة (ḥufra, “dug pit, ditch”)
- حَفَّار (ḥaffār, “digger”)
- حَفَّارَة (ḥaffāra, “digging machine”)
- حَفِيرَة (ḥafīra, “what is dug out”)
- أُحْفُور (ʔuḥfūr, “fossil”)
- مِحْفَر (miḥfar, “spade”)
- حَفِير (ḥafīr, “dug”)
- حَافِر (ḥāfir, “hoof”)
- حَافِرَة (ḥāfira, “beginning, prior state”)
References
- Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ح ف ر”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 303a–b
- Freytag, Georg (1830) “ح ف ر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 401b–402a
- Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ح ف ر”, 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 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 457
- Lane, Edward William (1863) “ح ف ر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 600–601