سقف

See also: شفق, شقق, and شقف

Arabic

Root
س ق ف (s-q-f)

Pronunciation

Noun
  • IPA(key): /saqf/
  • (file)

Noun

سَقْف • (saqf) m (plural سُقُوف (suqūf) or أَسْقُف (ʔasquf) or سُقُف (suquf))

  1. ceiling
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 16:26:
      قَدْ مَكَرَ الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ فَأَتَى اللهُ بُنْيَانَهُمْ مِنَ الْقَوَاعِدِ فَخَرَّ عَلَيْهِمُ السَّقْفُ مِنْ فَوْقِهِمْ
      qad makara allaḏīna min qablihim faʔatā llāhu bunyānahum mina l-qawāʕidi faḵarra ʕalayhimu as-saqfu min fawqihim
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. roof

Declension

Descendants

  • Swahili: sakafu (floor)

Verb

سَقَفَ • (saqafa) I, non-past يَسْقُفُ‎ (yasqufu)

  1. to ceil; to roof

Conjugation

Verb

سَقَّفَ • (saqqafa) II, non-past يُسَقِّفُ‎ (yusaqqifu)

  1. to ceil; to roof

Conjugation

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “سقف”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 329
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “سقف”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1382–1383
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “سقف”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 484

Egyptian Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic سَقْف (saqf).

Noun

سقف • (saʔf) m (plural سقوف (suʔūf) or سقفة (suʔufa) or أسقف (ʾasʔuf))

  1. ceiling

References

Hijazi Arabic

Root
س ق ف
1 term

Etymology

From Arabic سَقْف (saqf).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /saɡf/

Noun

سقف • (sagf) m (plural سقوف (sugūf) or أسقُف (ʔasguf) or سُقُف (suguf))

  1. ceiling

See also

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سَقْف (saqf).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? saqf
Dari reading? saqf
Iranian reading? sağf
Tajik reading? saqf

Noun

Dari سَقف
Iranian Persian
Tajik сақф

سَقف • (saqf) (plural سُقوف (soquf) or سَقف‌ها (saqf-hâ))

  1. ceiling, roof
    Synonym: بام (bâm)
    • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume III, verse 4669:
      چون به خانه مرغ اشتر پا نهاد
      خانه ویران گشت و سقف اندر فتاد
      čon be xâne-ye morğ oštor pâ nehâd
      xâne virân gašt o saqf andar fatâd
      When the camel set foot in the hen's house, the house was destroyed and the roof fell in.
    • 1967, Samad Behrangi, ماهی سیاه کوچولو [The Little Black Fish]:
      خانه ی ماهی کوچولو و مادرش پشت سنگ سیاهی بود؛ زیر سقفی از خزه.
      xâne-ye mâhi-ye kučulu o mâdar-eš pošt-e sang-e siyâhi bud; zir-e saqfi az xaze.
      The house of the little fish and his mother was behind a black stone, under a roof of moss.

Derived terms

  • سقف بندی (saqf-bandi)
  • سقف دهان (saqf-e dahân)
  • سقف سازی (saqf-sâzi)
  • سقف مینا (saqf-e minâ)

South Levantine Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic سَقْف (saqf).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Urban) /saʔf/, [ˈsa.ʔ(ɪ)f]
  • IPA(key): (Bedouin) /saɡf/, [ˈsa.ɡ(ɪ)f]
  • (file)

Noun

سقف • (saʔf) m

  1. ceiling
  2. roof

See also

  • سطح (saṭḥ, flat roof)
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