كهف

Arabic

Etymology

Phonetic variant of كَفّ (kaff, cup of the hand).

Pronunciation

Noun

كَهْف • (kahf) m (plural كُهُوف (kuhūf))

  1. cave
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 18:10:
      إِذْ أَوَى الْفِتْيَةُ إِلَى الْكَهْفِ فَقَالُوا رَبَّنَا آتِنَا مِنْ لَدُنْكَ رَحْمَةً وَهَيِّئْ لَنَا مِنْ أَمْرِنَا رَشَدًا
      ʔiḏ ʔawā l-fityatu ʔilā l-kahfi faqālū rabbanā ʔātinā min ladunka raḥmatan wahayyiʔ lanā min ʔamrinā rašadan
      Mufti Taqi: When the young men took refuge in the Cave and said, “Our Lord, bless us with mercy from Your own and provide us with guidance in our matters.”

Declension

See also

References

  • Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 1125
  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “كهف”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 67a
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “كهف”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 939a

Hijazi Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic كَهْف (kahf).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kahf/

Noun

كهف • (kahf) m (plural كهوف (kuhūf)))

  1. cave

See also

South Levantine Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic كَهْف (kahf).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kahf/, [kahf]
  • (file)

Noun

كهف • (kahf) m (plural كهوف (khūf))

  1. cave
    Synonym: مغارة (mḡāra)
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