Arabic

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Etymology 1

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Verb form I from the root ح ذ ف (ḥ-ḏ-f).

Verb

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حَذَفَ (ḥaḏafa) I, non-past يَحْذِفُ‎ (yaḥḏifu)

  1. to shorten, clip, curtail with accusative or with مِنْ (min) and genitive
  2. to take away, cut or clip off, reduce
  3. to strike or cross out
  4. (grammar, phonology) to elide, apocopate, drop by apheresis
  5. (mathematics, accounting) to deduct, subtract
  6. (ditransitive) to throw with accusative and بِـ (bi-), pelt
  7. to throw away, discard with بِـ (bi-)
    حَذْفُ الْكَلِمَاتِ الْمُفْتَاحِيَّةِ الْآنِيَّةِ إِلْزَامِيٌّ عِنْدَمَا يَتَعَلَّقُ الْأَمْرُ بِخُصُوصِيَّةِ الْمَرْءِ.
    ḥaḏfu al-kalimāti l-muftāḥiyyati l-ʔāniyyati ʔilzāmiyyun ʕindamā yataʕallaqu l-ʔamru biḵuṣūṣiyyati l-marʔi.
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Etymology 2

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Verb form II from the root ح ذ ف (ḥ-ḏ-f).

Verb

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حَذَّفَ (ḥaḏḏafa) II, non-past يُحَذِّفُ‎ (yuḥaḏḏifu)

  1. (transitive) to clip, trim
  2. (transitive) to give shape, to cut, clip, or trim into proper shape
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Etymology 3

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Verbal noun from حَذَفَ (ḥaḏafa).

Noun

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حَذْف (ḥaḏfm

  1. shortening, curtailing, cutting off, trimming
  2. cancellation, crossing out, deletion, omission, dropping, suppression
  3. (grammar, phonology, phonetics) elision, deletion, ellipsis, apocope, apheresis
  4. (computing) deletion
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Descendants
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  • Ottoman Turkish: حذف (hazf)
  • Persian: حذف
  • Tajik: ҳазф (hazf)
  • Urdu: حَذَف (hazaf)

Etymology 4

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From the root ح ذ ف (ḥ-ḏ-f) in the sense of "trimming (especially laterally)", from the تَحْذِيفُ الشَّعَر (taḥḏīfu š-šaʕar, undercut hairstyle); so called for the distinctive teal-colored side patches on the bird's head.

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حَذَف (ḥaḏafm

  1. teal (some birds in the genus Anas)
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South Levantine Arabic

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Root
ح ذ ف
1 term

Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Arabic حَذَفَ (ḥaḏafa).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ħa.zaf/, [ˈħa.zaf]
  • Audio (al-Lidd):(file)

Verb

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حذف (ḥazaf) I (present بحذف (biḥzif))

  1. to delete
  2. (mathematics) to subtract

Conjugation

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    Conjugation of حذف (ḥazaf)
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
past m حذفت (ḥazaft) حذفت (ḥazaft) حذف (ḥazaf) حذفنا (ḥazafna) حذفتو (ḥazaftu) حذفو (ḥazafu)
f حذفتي (ḥazafti) حذفت (ḥazfat)
present m بحذف (baḥzif) بتحذف (btiḥzif) بحذف (biḥzif) منحذف (mniḥzif) بتحذفو (btiḥzifu) بحذفو (biḥzifu)
f بتحذفي (btiḥzifi) بتحذف (btiḥzif)
subjunctive m أحذف (ʔaḥzif) تحذف (tiḥzif) يحذف (yiḥzif) نحذف (niḥzif) تحذفو (tiḥzifu) يحذفو (yiḥzifu)
f تحذفي (tiḥzifi) تحذف (tiḥzif)
imperative m احذف (iḥzif) احذفو (iḥzifu)
f احذفي (iḥzifi)

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Classical Persian حذف, from Arabic حَذْف (ḥaḏf)

Noun

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حَذَف (hazaf? (Hindi spelling हज़फ़)

  1. delete