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Arabic
Root
ص ف و • (ṣ-f-w)
- related to being strained clear
Derived terms
- Verbs
- Form I: صَفَا (ṣafā, “to be pure, be clear, be serene”)
- Form II: صَفَّى (ṣaffā, “to sort out, clarify, purify, liquidate”)
- Form III: صَافَى (ṣāfā)
- Form IV: أَصْفَى (ʔaṣfā, “to make pure”)
- Form V: تَصَفَّى (taṣaffā, “to receive in full”)
- Form VIII: اِصْطَفَى (iṣṭafā, “to elect, to choose”)
- Nouns and other parts of speech
- صَفِيّ (ṣafiyy, “pure, clear”)
- أَصْفَى (ʔaṣfā, “clearer, clearest, purer, purest”)
- صِفْوَة (ṣifwa), صَفْوَة (ṣafwa), صُفْوَة (ṣufwa, “pure or choice part”)
- مِصْفَاة (miṣfāh, “strainer”)
- صَيْف (ṣayf, “summer”)
References
- Freytag, Georg (1833) “ص ف و”, 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, pages 506b–507a