شارف

Arabic

Root
ش ر ف (š-r-f)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃaː.ra.fa/

Verb

شَارَفَ • (šārafa) III, non-past يُشَارِفُ‎ (yušārifu)

  1. to approach
    • 1962, Ghassan Kanafani, رجال في الشمس [Men in the Sun]:
      وَحِينَ شَارَفَ سَيَّارَةَ ٱلْحَاجِ رِضَا ٱلرَّمَادِيَّةَ ٱلْغَارِقَةَ حَتَّى ثَلَاثَةِ أَرْبَاعِ عَجَلَاتِهَا ٱلْوَرَائِيَّةِ فِي ٱلْوَحْلِ، أَوْقَفَ سَيَّارَتَهُ.
      waḥīna šārafa sayyārata l-ḥāji riḍā r-ramādiyyata l-ḡāriqata ḥattā ṯalāṯati ʔarbāʕi ʕajalātihā l-warāʔiyyati fī l-waḥli, ʔawqafa sayyāratahu.
      When he caught up with Haj Rida’s car, whose back wheels were three-quarters sunk in mud, he stopped his car.
  2. to supervise, to watch, to command
  3. to contend for superiority with

Conjugation

Moroccan Arabic

Root
ش ر ف
1 term

Etymology

From Arabic شَارِف (šārif).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃaː.rif/

Adjective

شارف • (šārif) (feminine شارفة (šārfa), masculine plural شارفين (šārfīn), feminine plural شارفات (šārfāt), elative أشرف (ʔašraf) or شرف (šraf))

  1. old (of people)
    Synonym: كبير (kbīr)
    Antonyms: صغير (ṣḡīr), شاب (šābb)
    Coordinate term: (of things) قديم (qdīm)
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