عدف

Root entry · 21 derived lemmas

The root 'عدف' primarily relates to eating and tasting, encompassing the act of consuming food and the small amounts tasted. It also extends to meanings of a portion or piece of something, such as cloth, money, or time, and metaphorically to the origin or root of a plant. Additionally, it can refer to eye irritants and a group or gathering.

Derived headwords

عَدَفَverb

1.
to eatboth
To consume food.

عَدْفًاnoun

1.
eatingclassical
The act of eating.

العَدُوفnoun

1.
a tasteclassical
Something that is tasted, a small sample of food.
2.
foodclassical
A small amount of food.

عَدُوفًاnoun

1.
a tasteclassical
A small amount tasted, a sample.
2.
foodclassical
A small portion of food.

عَدَافًاnoun

1.
a tasteclassical
Something tasted, a sample.
2.
foodclassical
A small amount of food.

عَذُوفًاnoun

1.
a tasteclassical
Something tasted, a sample (with 'dhāl' instead of 'dāl').

عَدُوفَةnoun

1.
a tasteclassical
Something tasted, a sample.

عَذُوفَةnoun

1.
a tasteclassical
Something tasted, a sample (with 'dhāl' instead of 'dāl').

العَدْفnoun

1.
a small amountclassical
A small portion or amount obtained from something.
2.
fodderclassical
A small amount of fodder or feed for animals.

العَدَفَةnoun

1.
a piece of clothclassical
A piece or section of a garment, similar to a 'ṣinfah'.
2.
a piececlassical
A piece or portion of something.

اعْتَدَفَverb

1.
to take a piececlassical
To take a piece or section from a garment or other item.

العَدْفَةnoun

1.
a piece of clothclassical
A piece or section of a garment.
2.
a piececlassical
A piece or portion of something.

العَدَفnoun

1.
rootclassical
The origin or root of a plant that goes into the ground.

عَدَفَةnoun

1.
rootclassical
The root of a tree or plant.

العَدَفnoun

1.
eye irritantclassical
Foreign matter or an irritant in the eye.

العَدَفَةnoun

1.
age groupclassical
An age range, specifically from ten to fifty years.

العَدَفnoun

1.
gatheringclassical
A group, collection, or gathering of people or things.

العَدَفnoun

1.
part of the nightclassical
A portion or segment of the night.

العَدَفnoun

1.
eye irritantclassical
Foreign matter or an irritant in the eye (with vowel movement).

عَدَفَةnoun

1.
a piece of moneyclassical
A portion or piece of money given as a gift.

عَدَفَ لهverb

1.
to give a piececlassical
To give someone a portion or piece of something, especially money.

Parallel reading

العدف: الأكل.

Al-ʿadf: Eating.

عدف يعدف عدفا: أكل.

ʿadf, yaʿdifu, ʿadfan: he ate.

والعدوف: الذواق أعني ما يذاق؛

And al-ʿadūf: the taster, meaning what is tasted;

وحيف بالقني فهن خوص، ... وقلة ما يذقن من العدوف عدوف من قضام غير لون، ...

And how much they have of their possessions, and they are wide-eyed, ... and little of the tasted is tasted from food of no color, ...

وما ذاق عدفا ولا عدوفا ولا عدافا أي شيئا، والذال المعجمة في كل ذلك لغة.

And he did not taste ʿadfan, nor ʿadūfan, nor ʿadāfan, meaning anything, and the letter 'dhāl' in all of that is a variant pronunciation.

سمعت أبا عمرو الشيباني يقول ما ذقت عدوفا ولا عدوفة؛

I heard Abu Amr al-Shaybani say, 'I did not taste ʿadūfan nor ʿadūfah';

ومجنبات ما يذقن عدوفة، ... يقذفن بالمهرات والأمهار بالدال،

And mares that have foals, they do not taste ʿadūfah, ... they give birth to fillies and young camels with the letter 'dāl',

إنما هي عذوفة بالذال،

It is only ʿaḏūfah with the letter 'dhāl',

والعدف: نول قليل من إصابة.

And al-ʿadf: a small gain from an acquisition.

والعدف: اليسير من العلف.

And al-ʿadf: a small amount of fodder.

وباتت الدابة على غير عدوف أي على غير علف؛ هذه لغة مضر.

And the animal spent the night without ʿadūf, meaning without fodder; this is a dialect of Muḍar.

ما ذقت عدوفا أي ذواقا.

I did not taste ʿadūfan, meaning a taste.

وما عدفنا عندهم عدوفا أي ما أكلنا.

And we did not ʿadafna with them ʿadūfan, meaning we did not eat.

والعدفة والعدفة: كالصنفة من الثوب.

And al-ʿadafah and al-ʿadafah: like a section of a garment.

واعتدف الثوب: أخذ منه عدفة.

And the garment was iʿtadafa: a piece was taken from it.

وما عليه عدفة أي خرقة، لغة مرغوب عنها.

And he had no ʿadafah, meaning a rag, a disfavored dialect.

وعدف كل شيء وعدفته: أصله الذاهب في الأرض؛

And the ʿadaf of everything and its ʿadaftuhu: its root going into the earth;

عن عدف الأصل وكرامها

from the root of the origin and its noble parts

عدفة كل شجرة أصلها، وجمعها عدف.

The ʿadafah of every tree is its root, and its plural is ʿadaf.

ابن الأعرابي: العدف والعائر والغضاب [الغضاب] قذى العين.

Ibn al-A'rabi: Al-ʿadaf, al-ʿāʾir, and al-ghaḍāb are foreign matter in the eye.

والعدفة من الرجال ما بين العشرة إلى الخمسين،

And al-ʿadafah of men is between ten and fifty years old,

والعدفة: التجمع، والجمع عدف، بالكسر، وعدف؛

And al-ʿadafah: a gathering, and its plural is ʿadaf, with kasra, and ʿadaf;

والعدف: القطعة من الليل.

And al-ʿadaf: a piece of the night.

يقال: مر عدف من الليل وعتف أي قطعة.

It is said: a piece of the night passed, meaning a portion.

والعدف، بالتحريك: القذى؛

And al-ʿadaf, with haraka: the foreign matter;

أزرق كالمرآة طحار العدف أي يطحر القذى ويدفعه.

Blue like a mirror, it expels the foreign matter, meaning it pushes away and repels the irritant.

ويقال: عدف له عدفة من مال أي قطع له قطعة منه، وأعطاه عدفة من مال أي قطعة.

And it is said: he gave him ʿadafah of money, meaning he cut off a piece of it for him, and he gave him ʿadafah of money, meaning a piece.