See also: زیف, زيق, ريف, and ريق

Arabic edit

Etymology 1 edit

Borrowed from Aramaic זֵיפָא / ܙܺܐܦܳܐ (zēp̄ā, mould; forgery), from Akkadian 𒍢𒀪𒁉 (/⁠zeʾpu, zīpu⁠/, mould).

Noun edit

زَيْف (zayfm (plural زُيُوف (zuyūf))

  1. falsity, falsehood, fallacy
  2. verbal noun of زَافَ (zāfa, to be fake)
Declension edit

Adjective edit

زَيْف (zayf)

  1. counterfeit, fake, sham
Derived terms edit

Verb edit

زَيَّفَ (zayyafa) II, non-past يُزَيِّفُ‎ (yuzayyifu)

  1. to counterfeit, to forge, to fake, to sham
  2. to assert to be false, to falsify
Conjugation edit

Etymology 2 edit

Root
ز ي ف (z-y-f)

Noun edit

زَيْف (zayfm

  1. verbal noun of زَافَ (zāfa, to drag an elegant tail behind oneself)
Declension edit

Noun edit

زِيف (zīfm (plural أَزْوَاف (ʔazwāf))

  1. ledge, cornice, coping, border, shroud (prominent part of something, hanging from a building or cloth)
Declension edit

References edit

  • zyp”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “زيف”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 619
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 195–196
  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “زيف”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[2] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 270
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “زيف”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc[3] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 1032
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “زيف”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[4], London: Williams & Norgate, page 1277
  • Sokoloff, Michael (2002) A Dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic of the Talmudic and Geonic periods, Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan University, page 410b
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “زيف”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[5] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 541