ح ف ش

Arabic

Root

ح ف ش • (ḥ-f-š)

1. related to gathering

Derived terms

• Form I: حَفَشَ (ḥafaša, “to gather, to throng, to asport”)
  • Active participle: حَافِش (ḥāfiš)
  • Passive participle: مَحْفُوش (maḥfūš)
• Form I: حَفِشَ (ḥafiša, “to have an ulcer at one side while being healthy on the other side; to rain vehemently”)
  • Active participle: حَافِش (ḥāfiš)
• Form V: تَحَفَّشَ (taḥaffaša, “to show affection for; to stay in the tent حِفْش (ḥifš) and leave it rarely; to live in a حِفْش (ḥifš)”)
  • Verbal noun: تَحَفُّش (taḥaffuš)
  • Active participle: مُتَحَفِّش (mutaḥaffiš)

• حَفْش (ḥafš, “sturgeon”)
• حِفْش (ḥifš, “a case for paraphernalia; a kind of tent”)
• حَفِش (ḥafiš, “having an ulcer at one side while being healthy on the other side”)
• أَحْفَش (ʔaḥfaš, “having an ulcer at one side while being healthy on the other side”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ح ف ش”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 304
• Freytag, Georg (1830) “ح ف ش”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 401–402
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ح ف ش”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[3], London: Williams & Norgate, page 601
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ح ف ش”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 272