Arabic edit

Root
ف ر ي (f-r-y)

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Verb edit

اِفْتَرَى (iftarā) VIII, non-past يَفْتَرِي‎ (yaftarī)

  1. to make up, to fabricate, to invent
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 11:13:
      أَمْ يَقُولُونَ افْتَرَاهُ قُلْ فَأْتُوا بِعَشْرِ سُوَرٍ مِّثْلِهِ مُفْتَرَيَاتٍ وَادْعُوا مَنِ اسْتَطَعْتُم مِّن دُونِ اللَّهِ إِن كُنتُمْ صَادِقِينَ
      Or do they say, "He invented it"? Say, "Then bring ten surahs like it that have been invented and call upon [for assistance] whomever you can besides Allah , if you should be truthful."
  2. to accuse falsely, to calumniate, to defame, to malign, to slander (with عَلَى (ʕalā, someone))

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References edit

  • Freytag, Georg (1830–1837) “افترى”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), Halle: C. A. Schwetschke
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  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “افترى”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[2], London: Williams & Norgate
  • Wehr, Hans (1960) “افترى”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz