راف

See also: رأف

Moroccan Arabic

Root
ر و ف
1 term

Etymology

From Arabic رَأَفَ (raʔafa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /raːf/

Verb

راف • (rāf) I (non-past يروف (yrūf), active participle رايف (rāyif), passive participle مريوف (maryūf))

1. to have mercy, to be merciful, to be compassionate [with على or ب]

   Synonyms: شفق (šfaq), عطف (ʕṭaf)

2. to give money [with على or ب]

   Synonyms: دور (dawwar), عطى القهوة (ʕtā l-qahwa)

Conjugation

Conjugation of راف
		singular				plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person
past	m	رفت (ruft)	رفتي (rufti)	راف (rāf)		رفنا (rufna)	رفتوا (ruftu)	رافوا (rāfu)
	f			رافت (rāfet)
non-past	m	نروف (nrūf)	تروف (trūf)	يروف (yrūf)		نروفوا (nrūfu)	تروفوا (trūfu)	يروفوا (yrūfu)
	f		تروفي (trūfi)	تروف (trūf)
imperative	m		روف (rūf)				روفوا (rūfu)
	f		روفي (rūfi)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic رَفّ (raff, “shelf”).

Noun

راف • (raf)

1. shelf, ledge, each of the boards which form partitions in a cupboard

Derived terms

• رافه قومق (rafa koymak, “to shelve”)

Descendants

• Turkish: raf
• → Albanian: raft
• → Armenian: ըռաֆ (əṙaf), ռաֆ (ṙaf)
• → Bulgarian: рафт (raft)
• → Greek: ράφι (ráfi)
• → Romanian: raft
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ра̏ф

  Latin script: rȁf

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “raf1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3928
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “راف”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 244a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “راف”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 612
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pluteus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1310
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “راف”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2261
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “raf”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “راف”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 957