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Arabic
Etymology
From شَفَة (šafa, “lip; brink, border”): originally شُفِيَ (šufiya, “to have one’s health restored”) literally meant “to be unbrinked”, “to be snatched from the brink of death”.
Root
ش ف ي • (š-f-y)
- related to healing
Derived terms
References
- Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 716 derives from ف ي ء (f-y-ʔ), and senses of satisfaction from ع ف و (ʕ-f-w)
- Freytag, Georg (1833) “ش ف ي”, 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 436b
- Haupt, Paul (1917) “Syriac sífṯâ, lip, and sáu̮pâ, end”, in Journal of the Society of Oriental Research, volume 1, page 92
- Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ش ف ي”, 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 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, pages 1251b–1252a
- Lane, Edward William (1863) “ش ف ي”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1574a–1575c