ح ف ر

Arabic[edit]

ح ف ر • (ḥ-f-r)

Form I: حَفَرَ (ḥafara, “to dig”)
- Verbal noun: حَفْر (ḥafr)
- Active participle: حَافِر (ḥāfir)
- Passive participle: مَحْفُور (maḥfūr)
Form III: حَافَرَ (ḥāfara, “to go deep into so one can hardly be dug out”)
- Verbal noun: مُحَافَرَة (muḥāfara), حِفَار (ḥifār)
- Active participle: مُحَافِر (muḥāfir)
- Passive participle: مُحَافَر (muḥāfar)
Form IV: أَحْفَرَ (ʔaḥfara, “to assist in digging; to have the nippers wabbling”)
- Verbal noun: إِحْفَار (ʔiḥfār)
- Active participle: مُحْفِر (muḥfir)
- Passive participle: مُحْفَر (muḥfar)
Form VII: اِنْحَفَرَ (inḥafara, “to be dug”)
- Verbal noun: اِنْحِفَار (inḥifār)
- Active participle: مُنْحَفِر (munḥafir)
Form VIII: اِحْتَفَرَ (iḥtafara, “to dig”)
- Verbal noun: اِحْتِفَار (iḥtifār)
- Active participle: مُحْتَفِر (muḥtafir)
- Passive participle: مُحْتَفَر (muḥtafar)
Form X: اِسْتَحْفَرَ (istaḥfara, “to desire from to dig”)
- Verbal noun: اِسْتِحْفَار (istiḥfār)
- Active participle: مُسْتَحْفِر (mustaḥfir)
- Passive participle: مُسْتَحْفَر (mustaḥfar)

Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ح ف ر”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 303a–b
Freytag, Georg (1830) “ح ف ر”, 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, pages 401b–402a
Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ح ف ر”, 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 457
Lane, Edward William (1863) “ح ف ر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[4], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 600–601