نسف

Arabic

Root
ن س ف (n-s-f)

Verb

نَسَفَ • (nasafa) I, non-past يَنْسِفُ‎ (yansifu)

  1. to winnow up, to overthrow from the ground
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 20:105:
      وَيَسْأَلُونَكَ عَنِ الْجِبَالِ فَقُلْ يَنْسِفُهَا رَبِّي نَسْفًا
      wayasʔalūnaka ʕani l-jibāli faqul yansifuhā rabbī nasfan
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. to blow up, to blow away

Conjugation

Noun

نَسْف • (nasf) m

  1. verbal noun of نَسَفَ (nasafa) (form I)

Declension

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “نسف”, 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 274
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “نسف”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1269
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