deriv►ĭnḥafara, vb. VII, pass. of I: N-stem.
►ĭḥtafara, vb. VII, to dig: Gt-stem, focus on the agent/speaker. ► BP#3312ḥafr, n., 1a digging, earthwork, excavation (also archeol.); 1b unearthing; 1c drilling (for oil); 2a carving, inscribing (e.g., of letters); 2b engraving, etching; graphic arts (etching, wood engraving); 3 tartar, dental calculus (Mawrid1995); 4 scurvy (SyrAr): vn. I and extended usages, cf. individual entry ↗ḥafr. | ǧahāz al-ḥafr, n., oil rig; oil derrick
► BP#3883ḥufraẗ, pl. ḥufar, n.f., 1 pit; 2 hollow, cavity, excavation; 3 hole.
►ḥafriyyaẗ, n.f., 1 digging, excavation; 2 gravure; 3 pl. ḥafriyyāt, excavations (archeol.): f. (pl.) of nisba formation.
►ḥaffār, n., 1 digger; 2 engraver; 3 driller; 4 stone mason: ints. FaʕʕāL for professions | ḥaffār al-qubūr, n., gravedigger.
►ḥafīr, n., dug, dug out, excavated, unearthed: quasi-PP I.
►ḥafīraẗ, pl. ḥafāʔirᵘ, n.f., 1 s.th. excavated or unearthed; 2 pl. excavations (archeol.).
►ʔuḥfūr, pl. ʔaḥāfīrᵘ, 1 s.th. excavated; 2 fossil; 3 pl. excavations (archeol.).
►miḥfar, pl. maḥāfirᵘ, spade: n.instr.
►ḥāfir, pl. ḥawāfirᵘ, n., hoof: lit., *‘digger, the digging one’; for details see individual entry, ↗ḥāfir. | waqaʕa ’l-ḥāfir ʕalà ’l-ḥāfir, expr., to coincide, happen to correspond exactly; ʕalà ’l-ḥāfir, adv., on the spot, right away, at once (of payments): see ↗ḥāfir.
►ḥāfirī, adj., ungular, ungulate: nisba formation from ḥāfir ‘hoof’.
►ḥāfiraẗ, n.f., original condition, beginning: cf. individual entry ↗ḥāfiraẗ. | ʕinda ’l-ḥāfiraẗ, adv., on the spot, right away, at once; raǧaʕa ʔilà ḥāfiratih, expr., to revert to its original state or origin.
►maḥfūr, adj., 1 dug; 2 inscribed, engraved; 3 carved: PP I.