حذف

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Arabic

Etymology 1.1

Verb form I from the root ح ذ ف (ḥ-ḏ-f).

Verb

حَذَفَ (ḥaḏafa) I (non-past يَحْذِفُ (yaḥḏifu), verbal noun حَذْف (ḥaḏf))

  1. (transitive or intransitive) to shorten, to clip, to curtail
  2. (transitive) to take away
  3. to cut off, to clip off
  4. to strike out, to cross out
  5. (grammar, phonology, transitive) to elide, to apocopate, to drop by apheresis
    Synonym: أَسْقَطَ (ʔasqaṭa)
  6. (mathematics, accounting, transitive) to deduct, to subtract
  7. to pelt
  8. (intransitive) to throw away, to discard
    حَذْفُ الْكَلِمَاتِ الْمُفْتَاحِيَّةِ الْآنِيَّةِ إِلْزَامِيٌّ عِنْدَمَا يَتَعَلَّقُ الْأَمْرُ بِخُصُوصِيَّةِ الْمَرْءِ.
    ḥaḏfu al-kalimāti l-muftāḥiyyati l-ʔāniyyati ʔilzāmiyyun ʕindamā yataʕallaqu l-ʔamru biḵuṣūṣiyyati l-marʔi.
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Conjugation

Etymology 1.2

Verb form II from the root ح ذ ف (ḥ-ḏ-f).

Verb

حَذَّفَ (ḥaḏḏafa) II (non-past يُحَذِّفُ (yuḥaḏḏifu), verbal noun تَحْذِيف (taḥḏīf))

  1. (transitive) to clip, trim
  2. (transitive) to give shape, to cut, clip, or trim into proper shape
Conjugation

Etymology 1.3

Verbal noun from حَذَفَ (ḥaḏafa).

Noun

حَذْف (ḥaḏfm

  1. shortening, curtailing, cutting off, trimming
  2. cancellation, crossing out, deletion, omission, dropping, suppression
  3. (grammar, phonology, phonetics) elision, deletion, ellipsis, apocope, apheresis
  4. (computing) deletion
Declension
Synonyms
Descendants
  • Ottoman Turkish: حذف (hazf)
  • Persian: حذف
  • Tajik: ҳазф (hazf)
  • Urdu: حَذَف (hazaf)

Etymology 1.4

From the root ح ذ ف (ḥ-ḏ-f) in the sense of "trimming (especially laterally)", from the تَحْذِيفُ الشَّعَر (taḥḏīfu š-šaʕar, undercut hairstyle); so called for the distinctive teal-colored side patches on the bird's head.

Noun

حَذَف (ḥaḏafm

  1. teal (some birds in the genus Anas)
Declension
Derived terms

South Levantine Arabic

Root
ح ذ ف
1 term

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Arabic حَذَفَ (ḥaḏafa).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ħa.zaf/,
  • Audio (al-Lidd):(file)

Verb

حذف (ḥazaf) I (present بحذف (biḥzif))

  1. to delete
  2. (mathematics) to subtract

Conjugation

    Conjugation of حذف (ḥazaf)
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
past m حذفت (ḥazaft) حذفت (ḥazaft) حذف (ḥazaf) حذفنا (ḥazafna) حذفتو (ḥazaftu) حذفو (ḥazafu)
f حذفتي (ḥazafti) حذفت (ḥazfat)
present m بحذف (baḥzif) بتحذف (btiḥzif) بحذف (biḥzif) منحذف (mniḥzif) بتحذفو (btiḥzifu) بحذفو (biḥzifu)
f بتحذفي (btiḥzifi) بتحذف (btiḥzif)
subjunctive m أحذف (ʔaḥzif) تحذف (tiḥzif) يحذف (yiḥzif) نحذف (niḥzif) تحذفو (tiḥzifu) يحذفو (yiḥzifu)
f تحذفي (tiḥzifi) تحذف (tiḥzif)
imperative m احذف (iḥzif) احذفو (iḥzifu)
f احذفي (iḥzifi)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian حذف, from Arabic حَذْف (ḥaḏf)

Noun

حَذَف (hazaf? (Hindi spelling हज़फ़)

  1. delete