See also: طرق and ظرف

Arabic

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Root
ظ ر ف (ẓ-r-f)

Etymology

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Relative noun (nisba) composed of ظَرْف (ẓarf, container) +‎ ـِيَّة (-iyya).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ظَرْفِيَّة (ẓarfiyyaf

  1. (Arabic grammar) The quality of denoting place or time, adverbially, by a noun, implying the meaning of the preposition فِي (); and also, according to some, by a noun together with that preposition.

Declension

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References

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  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “ظَرْفِيَّةُ”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[1], London: Williams & Norgate, page 1911
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ظرفية”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[2] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 800