تفاف

Arabic

تِفَاف – Sonchus tenerrimus

Alternative forms

• تِلْفَاف (tilfāf)

Etymology

A Berber borrowing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti.faːf/

Noun

تِفَاف • (tifāf) m

1. Sonchus gen. et spp.

   Synonym: جَعْضِيض (jaʕḍīḍ)

Declension

Declension of noun تِفَاف (tifāf)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	تِفَاف tifāf	التِّفَاف at-tifāf	تِفَاف tifāf
Nominative	تِفَافٌ tifāfun	التِّفَافُ at-tifāfu	تِفَافُ tifāfu
Accusative	تِفَافًا tifāfan	التِّفَافَ at-tifāfa	تِفَافَ tifāfa
Genitive	تِفَافٍ tifāfin	التِّفَافِ at-tifāfi	تِفَافِ tifāfi

Descendants

• Maltese: tfief

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “تفاف”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 147
• Leclerc, Lucian (1862) “Études historiques et philologiques sur Ebn-Beïthâr”, in Journal asiatique‎^[2] (in French), volume 19 of the 5th series, page 457