ت ل ف

Arabic

Etymology

From Old South Arabian 𐩩𐩡𐩰 (tlf, “to perish”), 𐩠𐩩𐩡𐩰 (htlf, “to ruin”), metathetical to لَفَتَ (lafata, “to twist”).

Root

ت ل ف • (t-l-f)

1. forms words related to perishing, annihilation

Derived terms

• Form I: تَلِفَ (talifa, “to perish, to become marred, to be spoiled, to suffer annihilation”)
  • Verbal noun: تَلَف (talaf)
  • Active participle: تَالِف (tālif)
  • Passive participle: مَتْلُوف (matlūf)
• Form II: تَلَّفَ (tallafa, “to ruin”)
  • Verbal noun: تَتْلِيف (tatlīf)
  • Active participle: مُتَلِّف (mutallif)
  • Passive participle: مُتَلَّف (mutallaf)
• Form IV: أَتْلَفَ (ʔatlafa, “to cause to perish”)
  • Verbal noun: إِتْلَاف (ʔitlāf)
  • Active participle: مُتْلِف (mutlif)
  • Passive participle: مُتْلَف (mutlaf)
• Form VII: اِنْتَلَفَ (intalafa, “to perish”)
  • Verbal noun: اِنْتِلَاف (intilāf)
  • Active participle: مُنْتَلِف (muntalif)

• تَلْفَان (talfān, “marred”)
• تَلّاف (tallāf, “wasteful”)
• تَلِيفَ (talīfa, “wasted thing”)
• مِتْلَاف (mitlāf, “ruinous”)
• مَتْلَف (matlaf) and مَتْلَفَة (matlafa, “desert, a place to perish”)

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, pages 222–223
• Freytag, Georg (1830) “ت ل ف”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 197
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ت ل ف”, 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^[2] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 204–205
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ت ل ف”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[3], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 312–313
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ت ل ف”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[4], London: W.H. Allen, page 186
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “ت ل ف”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 116