See also: نضف

Arabic edit

Etymology 1 edit

Arabic numbers (edit)
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    Cardinal: اِثْنَان (iṯnān)
    Ordinal: ثَانٍ (ṯānin)
    Multiplier: ثُنَائِيّ (ṯunāʔiyy), مُثَنًّى (muṯannan)
    Distributive: ثُنَاءَ (ṯunāʔa), مَثْنَى (maṯnā)
    Fractional: نِصْف (niṣf)

From the root ن ص ف (n-ṣ-f).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /nisˤf/
  • (file)

Noun edit

نِصْف or نُصْف (niṣf or nuṣfm (plural أَنْصَاف (ʔanṣāf))

  1. half, a half, semi-, hemi-
  2. middle
Declension edit
Descendants edit
  • Egyptian Arabic: نص (nuṣṣ)
  • Gulf Arabic: نص (niṣṣ)
  • Hijazi Arabic: نص (neṣṣ)
  • Maltese: nofs
  • Moroccan Arabic: نص (nuṣṣ)
  • North Levantine Arabic: نص (nuṣṣ)
  • South Levantine Arabic: نص (nuṣṣ)
  • Ottoman Turkish: نصف (nısf)
  • Persian: نصف (nesf)
  • Swahili: nusu
See also edit

Etymology 2 edit

Verb edit

نَصْفُ (naṣfu) (form I)

  1. first-person plural non-past active jussive of صَفَا (ṣafā)

Verb edit

نُصْفَ (nuṣfa) (form I)

  1. first-person plural non-past passive jussive of صَفَا (ṣafā)

Etymology 3 edit

Verb edit

نَصِفُ (naṣifu) (form I)

  1. first-person plural non-past active indicative of وَصَفَ (waṣafa)

Verb edit

نَصِفَ (naṣifa) (form I)

  1. first-person plural non-past active subjunctive of وَصَفَ (waṣafa)

Verb edit

نَصِفْ (naṣif) (form I)

  1. first-person plural non-past active jussive of وَصَفَ (waṣafa)

Persian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Arabic نِصْف (niṣf).

Pronunciation edit

 

Readings
Classical reading? nisf
Dari reading? nisf
Iranian reading? nesf
Tajik reading? nisf

Noun edit

Dari نصف
Iranian Persian
Tajik нисф

نصف (nesf)

  1. half
    Synonym: نیم (nim)