قطيفة

Arabic

قَطِيفَة
قَطَائِف

Etymology

From the root ق ط ف (q-ṭ-f), of which قَطَفَ (qaṭafa, to pluck), therefore perhaps originally meaning piled cloth.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /qa.tˤiː.fa/
    • (Hijazi) IPA(key): /ɡa.tˤiː.fa/

Noun

قَطِيفَة • (qaṭīfa) f (plural قَطَائِف (qaṭāʔif) or قُطُف (quṭuf))

  1. satin, velvet
  2. a fabric made of satin or velvet (which might be a blanket or a carpet or a person’s dress)
  3. a kind of fritter or cheburek, qatayef (chiefly found in the plural قَطَائِف (qaṭāʔif), and in its vulgar form قَطَايِف (qaṭāyif))
  4. African marigold (Tagetes erecta)

Declension

Descendants

References

  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “قطيفة”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1043
  • Worrell, William Hoyt (1935) “More about Arabic Terms for ”Rug””, in Ars Islamica, volume 2, number 1, →DOI, pages 66–67
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