ح ن ف

Arabic

Root

ح ن ف • (ḥ-n-f)

1. related to inclination, slant

Derived terms

Verbs

• Form I: حَنَفَ (ḥanafa, “to bend”)
  • Verbal noun: حَنْف (ḥanf)
  • Active participle: حَانِف (ḥānif)
  • Passive participle: مَحْنُوف (maḥnūf)
• Form I: حَنِفَ (ḥanifa, “to bend”)
  • Verbal noun: حَنَف (ḥanaf)
  • Active participle: حَانِف (ḥānif)
  • Passive participle: مَحْنُوف (maḥnūf)
• Form II: حَنَّفَ (ḥannafa)
  • Verbal noun: تَحْنِيف (taḥnīf)
  • Active participle: مُحَنِّف (muḥannif)
  • Passive participle: مُحَنَّف (muḥannaf)
• Form V: تَحَنَّفَ (taḥannafa)
  • Verbal noun: تَحَنُّف (taḥannuf)
  • Active participle: مُتَحَنِّف (mutaḥannif)
  • Passive participle: مُتَحَنَّف (mutaḥannaf)

Nouns

• حَنَفِيّ (ḥanafiyy, “heathen”)
• حَنَفِيَّة (ḥanafiyya, “spigot; heathendom”)

Adjectives

• حَنِيف (ḥanīf, “slanted, slanted in religion”)
• أَحْنَف (ʔaḥnaf, “crooked, distorted at the foot”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ح ن ف”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 332
• Freytag, Georg (1830) “ح ن ف”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 436
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ح ن 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^[3] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 504
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ح ن ف”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[4], London: Williams & Norgate, page 658
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ح ن ف”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[5] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 300