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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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ṣaġīr صَغِير 
ID 508 • Sw 15/140 • BP 230 • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√ṢĠR 
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ṢĠW صغو 
ID – • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 4Apr2023
√ṢĠW 
“root” 
▪ ṢĠW_1 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ ṢĠW_2 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ ṢĠW_3 ‘...’ ↗...

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘inclination, or twisting, of the mouth; to incline, to swerve’ 
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ṢFː (ṢFF) صفّ/صفف 
ID – • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 4Apr2023
√ ṢFː (ṢFF) 
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▪ ṢFː (ṢFF)_1 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ ṢFː (ṢFF)_2 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ ṢFː (ṢFF)_3 ‘...’ ↗...

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘to arrange in ranks, lines, or rows, to set side by side, to arrange in a straight line; to stand in ranks, line up’ 
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▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl sofa, from Ar ↗ṣuffaẗ ‘sofa’, from Aram ṣippā, abs. form of ṣippᵊtā, a mat, perh. akin to ṣippā, ṣuppā ‘carded wool’, cf. Ar ↗ṣūf.
▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl Sufi, from Ar ↗ṣūfī, ‘(man) of wool’, from ↗ṣūf ‘wool’, perh. from Aram ṣippā, ṣuppā ‘carded wool’; both perh. from Akk ṣuppu ‘solid, massive, compacted (textile)’, vb.adj. of ṣuppu ‘to press down, rub down a horse’, derived stem of *ṣâpu, cf. ↗ṢFː (ṢFF). 
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ṢFḤ صفح 
ID – • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 6Apr2023
√ṢFḤ 
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▪ ṢFḤ_1 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ ṢFḤ_2 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ ṢFḤ_3 ‘...’ ↗...

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘width or broad side of a mountain; the side, or lateral, or outward part, face, or surface, flatness or wide smooth expanse; to turn away from s.o.’s crime, to forgive, to let off, to set free; to take s.o.’s hand in salute’ 
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ṢFD صفد 
ID – • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 6Apr2023
√ṢFD 
“root” 
▪ ṢFD_1 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ ṢFD_2 ‘...’ ↗...
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♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘shackles, fetters, thongs, chains; to bind; to give freely’ 
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ṢFR صفر 
ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√ṢFR 
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▪ ṢFR_1 ‘to whistle; bird’ ↗…
▪ ṢFR_2 ‘yellow’ ↗ʔaṣfar

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘whistle, to whistle, to utter a whistle-like sound; to become empty, void or vacant; to become yellow, (of plants) to wither away to the point of becoming yellow’ 
▪ [v1] Kogan2011: Ar ṣāfir ‘(birds other than birds of prey)’ can be traced back untio protWSem *ṣ˅p(p)˅r‑ ‘bird’ (but Akk ṣibāru ‘sparrow’).
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▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl cipher, zero, decipher, from Ar ṣifr ‘empty’ (loan translation of Skr śūnyam ‘cipher, dot’), from ṣafira ‘to be(come) empty, vacant’; Safar, from Ar ṣafar ‘Safar’, prob. from ṣafira (see above).↗ 
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