شوف

Root entry · 18 derived lemmas

The root 'شوف' primarily relates to the concept of seeing, looking, and observing. It extends to meanings of revealing, clarifying, and making something clear or polished. Derived forms also encompass concepts of adornment, eagerness, and elevated or exposed positions.

Derived headwords

شَافَverb

1.
to reveal, clarifyclassical
To make something clear, evident, or polished; to bring something to light.

شَوْفnoun

1.
clarification, polishingclassical
The act of making something clear, evident, or polished.

مَشُوفadjective

1.
polished, clarifiedclassical
Something that has been made clear, evident, or polished.
2.
adorned, decoratedclassical
Decorated or embellished, often with ornaments or coatings.
3.
excited, agitatedclassical
In a state of agitation or excitement, possibly due to being treated or coated.

مَشُوفَةadjective

1.
woman who shows herselfclassical
A woman who displays herself or makes herself visible to people.

تَشَوَّفَتْverb

1.
to adorn oneselfclassical
A woman adorning herself, making herself beautiful or presentable.
2.
to look out, peerboth
To look out from a high place, such as a roof, or to peer with anticipation.

شَيَّفَتْverb

1.
to adorn, make beautifulclassical
To adorn or make someone, typically a young woman, beautiful or presentable.

اشْتَافَverb

1.
to stretch out and lookboth
To stretch oneself out and look, often with eagerness or anticipation.
2.
to look out for, spotboth
To look out for something, such as lightning, or to spot it from a distance.
3.
to be eager forclassical
To be eager or desirous for something.

اشْتِيَافnoun

1.
stretching and lookingclassical
The act of stretching oneself out and looking, often with anticipation.

تَشَوَّفَverb

1.
to look out, peerboth
To look out from a high place, such as a roof, or to peer with anticipation.
2.
to rise, become elevatedclassical
To rise up or become elevated.

أَشَافَverb

1.
to rise, become elevatedclassical
To rise up or become elevated.
2.
to overlook, be aboveboth
To be situated above something, overlooking it.

أَشْرَفَ عَلَىverb

1.
to overlook, be aboveboth
To be situated above something, overlooking it.

مُشِيفadjective

1.
overlooking, elevatedclassical
Situated in a high or overlooking position.

شِيفَةnoun

1.
scout, vanguardclassical
A scout or vanguard sent ahead to observe.
2.
a sore, ulcerclassical
A sore or ulcer, particularly on the foot.

شِيفَانnoun

1.
scouts, vanguardclassical
Plural of شيفة, referring to scouts or a vanguard.

اشْتَافَ (الفرس)verb

1.
to stretch neck and lookclassical
A horse or gazelle stretching its neck and looking intently.

تَشَوَّفَ (الأوعال)verb

1.
to climb and overlookclassical
Mountain goats climbing to high places to overlook their surroundings.

اسْتَشَافَverb

1.
to become calloused, thickclassical
A wound becoming calloused or thick.

شَافَةnoun

1.
a sore, ulcerclassical
A sore or ulcer, particularly on the foot.

Parallel reading

شاف الشيء شوفا: جلاه.

He revealed the thing, a clarification: he made it clear.

والشوف: الجلو.

And the clarification: the act of making clear.

والمشوف: المجلو.

And the polished: that which has been made clear.

ودينار مشوف أي مجلو؛

And a polished dinar, meaning clarified;

يعني الدينار المجلو، وأراد بذلك دينارا شافه ضاربه أي جلاه،

Meaning the clarified dinar, and he intended by that a dinar its striker clarified, meaning he polished it,

والمشوف من الإبل: المطلي بالقطران لأن الهناء يشوفه أي يجلوه.

And the treated camel: one coated with tar because the treatment clarifies it, meaning polishes it.

والمشوفة من النساء: التي تظهر نفسها ليراها الناس؛

And the woman who shows herself: she who displays herself so that people see her;

وتشوفت المرأة: تزينت.

And the woman adorned herself: she made herself beautiful.

ويقال: شيفت الجارية تشاف شوفا إذا زينت.

And it is said: the maiden was adorned, she was made beautiful, if she was beautified.

أنها شوفت جارية فطافت بها وقالت لعلنا نصيد بها بعض فتيان قريش ، أي زينتها.

That she adorned a maiden and they paraded her around her, saying, 'Perhaps we will catch some of the young men of Quraysh with her,' meaning she beautified her.

واشتاف فلان يشتاف اشتيافا إذا تطاول ونظر.

And so-and-so stretched out and looked, he stretched out and looked, a stretching out and looking, when he stood tall and looked.

وتشوفت إلى الشيء أي تطلعت.

And she looked towards the thing, meaning she peered.

ورأيت نساء يتشوفن من السطوح أي ينظرن ويتطاولن.

And I saw women looking out from the rooftops, meaning looking and stretching themselves up.

واشتاف البرق أي شامه، ومنه قول العجاج: واشتاف من نحو سهيل برقا

And he spotted the lightning, meaning he observed it, and from this is the saying of Al-A'ajj: He spotted lightning from the direction of Suhail

وتشوف الشيء وأشاف: ارتفع.

And the thing rose up and became elevated: it became high.

وأشاف على الشيء وأشفى: أشرف عليه.

And he was above the thing and he was about to: he overlooked it.

وفي حديث عمر، رضي الله عنه: ولكن انظروا إلى ورعه إذا أشاف أي أشرف على الشيء، وهو بمعنى أشفى؛

And in the narration of Umar, may God be pleased with him: 'But look at his piety when he overlooks, meaning he looks over the thing, and it means he is about to;

والشيفة: الطليعة؛

And the vanguard: the scout;

بعث القوم شيفة أي طليعة.

The people sent a vanguard, meaning a scout.

قال: والشيفان الديدبان.

He said: And the scouts are the spies.

تبصروا الشيفان فإنه يصوك على شعفة المصاد أي يلزمها.

Observe the spies, for they stick to the peak of the mountain, meaning they adhere to it.

واشتاف الفرس والظبي وتشوف: نصب عنقه وجعل ينظر؛

And the horse and the gazelle stretched their necks and looked, and they looked out: they raised their necks and began to look;

تشوفت من صوت الصدى كل ما دعا، ... تشوف جيداء المقلد مغيب الليث:

It looked out from the sound of the echo for whatever called, ... it looked out, the graceful one with the necklace, the lion's lair:

تشوفت الأوعال إذا ارتفعت على معاقل الجبال فأشرفت؛

The mountain goats looked out when they climbed to the strongholds of the mountains and overlooked;

يشتفن للنظر البعيد، كأنما ... إرنانها ببوائن الأشطان

They look out for the distant view, as if ... their neighing is in the distant wells

وفي حديث سبيعة: أنها تشوفت للخطاب أي طمحت وتشرفت.

And in the narration of Suwaybah: that she looked out for suitors, meaning she yearned and looked eagerly.

واستشاف الجرح، فهو مستشيف، بغير همز إذا غلظ.

And the wound became calloused, and it is calloused, without hamza, if it thickened.

خرجت بآدم شافة في رجله ؛

A sore came out on Adam's foot;

وهي قرحة تخرج بباطن القدم

And it is an ulcer that comes out on the sole of the foot