يوسف
See also: یوسف
Arabic edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
يُوسُف • (yūsuf) m
- Joseph, a Hebrew patriarch
- 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 12:46:
- يُوسُفُ أَيُّهَا الصِّدِّيقُ أَفْتِنَا فِي سَبْعِ بَقَرَاتٍ سِمَانٍ يَأْكُلُهُنَّ سَبْعٌ عِجَافٌ وَسَبْعِ سُنْبُلَاتٍ خُضْرٍ وَأُخَرَ يَابِسَاتٍ لَعَلِّي أَرْجِعُ إِلَى النَّاسِ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَعْلَمُونَ
- yūsufu ʔayyuhā ṣ-ṣiddīqu ʔaftinā fī sabʕi baqarātin simānin yaʔkuluhunna sabʕun ʕijāfun wa-sabʕi sunbulātin ḵuḍrin wa-ʔuḵara yābisātin laʕallī ʔarjiʕu ʔilā n-nāsi laʕallahum yaʕlamūna
- “Joseph, O man of truth, explain to us about seven fat cows eaten by seven lean, and seven green ears of grain and others dry – that I may return to the people; perhaps they will know [about you].”
- Joseph, husband of Mary (mother of Jesus)
- The 12th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
- a male given name, Yusuf, Yousef, Yousif, Youssef, Youssif, Yousuf, or Yusef, equivalent to English Joseph
Declension edit
Declension of noun يُوسُف (yūsuf); يُوسِف (yūsif)
Singular | basic singular diptote | ||
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Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
Informal | — | يُوسُف; يُوسِف yūsuf; yūsif |
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Nominative | — | يُوسُفُ; يُوسِفُ yūsufu; yūsifu |
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Accusative | — | يُوسُفَ; يُوسِفَ yūsufa; yūsifa |
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Genitive | — | يُوسُفَ; يُوسِفَ yūsufa; yūsifa |
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Descendants edit
- → Albanian: Jusuf, Isuf
- → Azerbaijani: Yusif
- → Chinese: → 優素福/优素福 (Yōusùfú) (transliteration)
- → Kazakh: Жүсіп (Jüsıp)
- → Middle Armenian: Յուսուփ (Yusupʿ), Իւսուֆ (Iwsuf), Ուսուփ (Usupʿ), Յուսուֆ (Yusuf)
- → Maguindanao: Yosef
- → Malay: Yusuf
- → Maranao: Yosop
- → Ottoman Turkish: یوسف
- Turkish: Yusuf
- → Uyghur: يۈسۈپ (yüsüp)
- → Swahili: Yusufu
See also edit
- (Islamic prophets) آدَم (ʔādam), إِدْرِيس (ʔidrīs), نُوح (nūḥ), هُود (hūd), صَالِح (ṣāliḥ), إِبْرَاهِيم (ʔibrāhīm), لُوط (lūṭ), إِسْمَاعِيل (ʔismāʕīl), إِسْحَاق (ʔisḥāq), يَعْقُوب (yaʕqūb), يُوسُف (yūsuf), أَيُّوب (ʔayyūb), ذُو الْكِفْل (ḏū l-kifl), شُعَيْب (šuʕayb), مُوسَى (mūsā), هَارُون (hārūn), دَاوُد (dāwūd), سُلَيْمَان (sulaymān), يُونُس (yūnus), إِلْيَاس (ʔilyās), الْيَسَع (al-yasaʕ), زَكَرِيَّا (zakariyyā), يَحْيَى (yaḥyā), عِيسَى (ʕīsā), مُحَمَّد (muḥammad) (Category: ar:Islamic prophets)
References edit
- Wehr, Hans (1979), “يوسف”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN