سقف

Noun

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سَقْف • (saqf) m (plural سُقُوف (suqūf) or أَسْقُف (ʔasquf) or سُقُف (suquf))

1. ceiling
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 16:26:

     قَدْ مَكَرَ الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ فَأَتَى اللهُ بُنْيَانَهُمْ مِنَ الْقَوَاعِدِ فَخَرَّ عَلَيْهِمُ السَّقْفُ مِنْ فَوْقِهِمْ

     qad makara llaḏīna min qablihim faʔatā llāhu bunyānahum mina l-qawāʕidi faḵarra ʕalayhimu as-saqfu min fawqihim

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2. roof

• → Swahili: sakafu (“floor”)

سَقَفَ • (saqafa) I (non-past يَسْقُفُ (yasqufu), verbal noun سَقْف (saqf))

1. to ceil; to roof

سَقَّفَ • (saqqafa) II (non-past يُسَقِّفُ (yusaqqifu), verbal noun تَسْقِيف (tasqīf))

1. to ceil; to roof

• Freytag, Georg (1833) “سقف”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 329
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “سقف”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1382–1383
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “سقف”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 484

From Arabic سَقْف (saqf).

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سقف • (saʔf) m (plural سقوف (suʔūf) or سقفة (suʔufa) or أسقف (ʾasʔuf))

1. ceiling

• Hinds, Martin, Badawi, El-Said (1986) “س ق ف 1”, in A Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic‎, Beirut: Librairie du Liban, page 418

From Arabic سَقْف (saqf).

• IPA^(key): /saɡf/

سقف • (sagf) m (plural سقوف (sugūf) or أسقُف (ʔasguf) or سُقُف (suguf))

1. ceiling

• سَطوح (saṭūḥ, “roof”)

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Borrowed from Arabic سَقْف (saqf).

سَقف • (saqf) (plural سُقوف (soquf) or سَقف‌ها (saqf-hâ))

1. ceiling, roof

   Synonym: بام (bâm)

   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume III, verse 4669:

     چون به خانه مرغ اشتر پا نهاد
     خانه ویران گشت و سقف اندر فتاد

     čon be xâne-ye morğ oštor pâ nehâd
     xâne virân gašt o saqf andar fatâd

     When the camel set foot in the hen's house, the house was destroyed and the roof fell in.

   • 1967, Samad Behrangi, ماهی سیاه کوچولو [The Little Black Fish]:

     خانه ی ماهی کوچولو و مادرش پشت سنگ سیاهی بود؛ زیر سقفی از خزه.

     xâne-ye mâhi-ye kučulu o mâdar-eš pošt-e sang-e siyâhi bud; zir-e saqfi az xaze.

     The house of the little fish and his mother was behind a black stone, under a roof of moss.

• With regard to houses, سقف (saqf) tends to mean “ceiling” and بام (bâm) tends to mean “roof”, though the distinction is not as strict as in English.

From Arabic سَقْف (saqf).

• IPA^(key): (Urban) /saʔf/,
• IPA^(key): (Bedouin) /saɡf/,

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سقف • (saʔf) m

1. ceiling
2. roof

• سطح (saṭḥ, “flat roof”)