Arabic edit

Root
ق ط ف (q-ṭ-f)

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

اِقْتَطَفَ (iqtaṭafa) VIII, non-past يَقْتَطِفُ‎ (yaqtaṭifu)

  1. pick out, to choose, to select
  2. (figurative) to extract, to pick out, to excerpt (a passage)

Conjugation edit

References edit

  • Freytag, Georg (1835) “اقتطف”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 468
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “اقتطف”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[2] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1043