صدف

See also: صدق and ص د ق

Arabic

Root
ص د ف (ṣ-d-f)

Verb

صَدَفَ • (ṣadafa) I, non-past يَصْدِفُ‎ (yaṣdifu)

  1. (transitive, construed with direct object and عَن (ʕan)) turn away from

Conjugation

Verb

صَدَفَ • (ṣadafa) I, non-past يَصْدِفُ‎ (yaṣdifu)

  1. (intransitive, construed with عَن (ʕan)) turn away from, avoid, shun

Conjugation

Noun

صَدَف • (ṣadaf) m (plural أَصْدَاف (ʔaṣdāf))

  1. highest part, top
  2. mountain cutting
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 18:96:
      آتُونِي زُبَرَ الْحَدِيدِ حَتَّىٰ إِذَا سَاوَىٰ بَيْنَ الصَّدَفَيْنِ قَالَ ٱنْفُخُوا حَتَّىٰ إِذَا جَعَلَهُ نَارًا قَالَ آتُونِي أُفْرِغْ عَلَيْهِ قِطْرًا
      ʔātūnī zubara l-ḥadīdi ḥattā ʔiḏā sāwā bayna aṣ-ṣadafayni qāla nfuḵū ḥattā ʔiḏā jaʕalahū nāran qāla ʔātūnī ʔufriḡ ʕalayhi qiṭran
      “Give me bits of iron.” Until he dumped equally high between the two mountain cuttings. He said: “Blow.” Till he made fire. He said: “Bring me molten copper I pour upon it.“

Declension

Noun

صَدَف • (ṣadaf) m (collective, singulative صَدَفَة f (ṣadafa), plural أَصْدَاف (ʔaṣdāf))

  1. shell(s), seashell(s)
  2. pearl oyster(s)

Declension

Descendants

  • Armenian: սադափ (sadapʻ), սադաֆ (sadaf)
  • Azerbaijani: sədəf
  • Georgian: სადაფი (sadapi), ზადაპი (zadaṗi)
  • Hebrew: צדף (tsedef)
  • Kazakh: седеп (sedep)
  • Kyrgyz: седеп (sedep)
  • Middle Armenian: սատաֆ (sataf), սատապ (satap), սատափ (satapʻ), սադաֆ (sadaf)
  • Ottoman Turkish: صدف (sedef)
  • Persian: صدف (sadaf)
  • Pashto: صدف (sadáf)
  • Turkmen: sadap
  • Uyghur: سەدەپ (sedep)
  • Uzbek: sadaf

Noun

صَدْف • (ṣadf) m

  1. verbal noun of صَدَفَ (ṣadafa, turn away from) (form I)

Declension

Noun

صُدَف • (ṣudaf) pl

  1. plural of صُدْفَة (ṣudfa)

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic صَدَف (ṣadaf).

Pronunciation

 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [sä.d̪ǽf]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [sä.d̪ǽf]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [sä.d̪ǽf]

Readings
Classical reading? saḏaf
Dari reading? sadaf
Iranian reading? sadaf
Tajik reading? sadaf

Noun

صدف • (sadaf) (plural صدف‌ها (sadaf-hâ))

  1. shell, seashell
    • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 2677:
      خود چه گویم پیش آن در این صدف / نیست الا کف کف کف کف
      xwad či goyad peš ân dar in sadaf / nest alâ kaf-i-kaf-i-kaf-i-kaf
      What indeed shall I say? Compared with that pearl (Divine clemency) this oyster-shell (human clemency) is naught but the foam of the foam of the foam of foam.

Proper noun

صدف • (sadaf)

  1. a female given name, Sadaf, from Arabic
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