قرفص

Arabic

Root
ق ر ف ص (q-r-f-ṣ)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /qar.fa.sˤa/

Verb

قَرْفَصَ • (qarfaṣa) Iq, non-past يُقَرْفِصُ‎ (yuqarfiṣu)

  1. to squat (legs crossed)

Conjugation

Noun

قُرْفُص • (qurfuṣ) m (collective, singulative قُرْفُصَة f (qurfuṣa))

  1. (Egypt in particular at its Mediterranean ports) comber (Serranus spp., including Epinephelus aeneus)

Declension

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1830–1837) “قرفص”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), Halle: C. A. Schwetschke
  • Baalbaki, Rohi (1995) “قرفص”, in Al-Mawrid: A Modern Arabic-English Dictionary, 7th edition, Beirut: Dar El-Ilm Lilmalayin, →ISBN
  • Баранов, Х. К. (2011) “قرفص”, in Большой арабско-русский словарь (Bolʹšoj arabsko-russkij slovarʹ), 11th edition, Москва: Живой язык, →ISBN
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “قرفص”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “قرفص”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
  • التوصيف البيئي لمحافظة الإسكندرية (تقارير التوصيف البيئي للمحافظات) (in Arabic), Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency, 2007, page 53

South Levantine Arabic

Root
ق ر ف ص
1 term

Etymology

From Arabic قَرْفَصَ (qarfaṣa).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔar.fasˤ/, [ˈʔɑrˤ.fɑsˤ]
  • (file)

Verb

قرفص • (ʔarfaṣ) Iq (present بقرفص (biʔarfiṣ))

  1. to squat, to crouch

Conjugation

    Conjugation of قرفص (ʔarfaṣ)
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
past m قرفصت (ʔarfaṣt) قرفصت (ʔarfaṣt) قرفص (ʔarfaṣ) قرفصنا (ʔarfaṣna) قرفصتو (ʔarfaṣtu) قرفصو (ʔarfaṣu)
f قرفصتي (ʔarfaṣti) قرفصت (ʔarfaṣat)
present m بقرفص (baʔarfeṣ) بتقرفص (bitʔarfeṣ) بقرفص (biʔarfeṣ) منقرفص (minʔarfeṣ) بتقرفصو (bitʔarfṣu) بقرفصو (biʔarfṣu)
f بتقرفصي (bitʔarfṣi) بتقرفص (bitʔarfeṣ)
subjunctive m اقرفص (aʔarfeṣ) تقرفص (tʔarfeṣ) يقرفص (yʔarfeṣ) نقرفص (nʔarfeṣ) تقرفصو (tʔarfṣu) يقرفصو (yʔarfṣu)
f تقرفصي (tʔarfṣi) تقرفص (tʔarfeṣ)
imperative m قرفص (ʔarfeṣ) قرفصو (ʔarfṣu)
f قرفصي (ʔarfṣi)
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