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هفتق

Root entry · 2 derived lemmas

This root pertains to the Persian loanword for 'week'. It is primarily used in classical Arabic poetry and prose to denote a period of seven days, often with a Persian flavor.

Derived headwords

هَفْتَقnoun
  1. 1.
    weekclassical

    A period of seven days, borrowed from Persian.

أَسْبُوعnoun
  1. 1.
    weekboth

    A period of seven days. This is the standard modern Arabic term.

Parallel reading

أقاموا هفتقا أي أسبوعا
They observed a haftaq, meaning a week.
فارسي معرب، أصله بالفارسية هفته
It is an Arabized Persian word, its origin in Persian is 'hafta'.
كأن لعابين زاروا هفتقا
As if two saliva-lickers visited a week.