ف و ف

Arabic

Root

ف و ف • (f-w-f)

1. related to whiteness and/or covering

Derived terms

• Form I: فَافَ (fāfa, “to indicate that you will give someone nothing by putting your thumbnail on your index fingernail as if to say "you won't even get that much".”)
  • Verbal noun: فَوف
  • Active participle: فَائِف (fāʔif)
  • Passive participle: مَفُوف (mafūf)

• فَوف (“bladder of a cow”)
• فُوف (fūf, “pellicle, membrane; a type of fine, white-striped cloth from Yemen”)
• مُفَوَّف (mufawwaf, “white-striped”)

References

• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ف و 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^[1] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 647
• Wehr, Hans (1960) “ف و ف”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz, page 732