Arabic edit

Root
ث ف ر (ṯ-f-r)

Noun edit

ثَفَر (ṯafarm (plural أَثْفَار (ʔaṯfār))

  1. crupper (thong to keep the saddle from sliding forth; also piece of armour for the hindquarters)

Declension edit

Verb edit

ثَفَّرَ (ṯaffara) II, non-past يُثَفِّرُ‎ (yuṯaffiru)

  1. to make walk with a prod, to drive from behind

Conjugation edit

Noun edit

ثَفْر or ثُفْر (ṯafr or ṯufrm

  1. vulva of a beast of prey

Declension edit

References edit

  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “ثفر”, 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 220
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ثفر”, 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 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, pages 226–227
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “ثفر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[3], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 339–340
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “ثفر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 124
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ثفر”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 153