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شوف

Root entry · 11 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the act of seeing, looking, and observing. It extends to concepts of adornment and beautification, as well as anticipation and longing. It also encompasses the idea of surveying or overlooking something.

Derived headwords

شَافَverb
  1. 1.
    he polished itboth

    he polished it

مَشُوفadjective
  1. 1.
    meaning, polishedboth

    meaning, polished

تَشَوَّفَverb
  1. 1.
    he looked out, he yearnedboth

    he looked out, he yearned

تَشْيِيفverb
  1. 1.
    to adornclassical

    To adorn or beautify something or someone.

شَافَverb
  1. 1.
    he polished itboth

    he polished it

اشْتَافَverb
  1. 1.
    to stretch out and lookclassical

    To stretch oneself up and look afar, to peer.

  2. 2.
    to glimpseclassical

    To catch sight of something, especially lightning.

تَشَوَّقَverb
  1. 1.
    to long for

    To yearn for something, to look forward to it with desire.

شَافَverb
  1. 1.
    he polished itboth

    he polished it

شِيفَةnoun
  1. 1.
    scoutclassical

    The vanguard or scout of a group, who looks out for them.

أَشَافَverb
  1. 1.
    to overlook

    To look over or survey something from a higher position.

أَشْرَفَverb
  1. 1.
    so-and-so is nobler than so-and-soboth

    so-and-so is nobler than so-and-so

  2. 2.
    he overlooked the place, ascended itboth

    he overlooked the place, ascended it

  3. 3.
    he looked down upon it from aboveboth

    he looked down upon it from above

Parallel reading

شفت الشئ: جلوته.
To clarify something: to make it evident.
ودينار مشوف، أي مجلو.
And a polished dinar, meaning burnished.
ولقد شربت من المدامة بعدما ركد الهواجر بالمشوف المعلم
And I drank of the wine after the midday heat had settled, from the decorated, polished vessel.
وتشوفت الجارية، أي تزينت.
And the young woman adorned herself, meaning she beautified herself.
وشيفت تشاف شوفا أي زينت.
And she was adorned, she was beautified, meaning she was decorated.
واشتاف الرجل أي تطاول ونظر.
And the man stretched himself up and looked, meaning he peered.
حين رمى بحاجبيه الشرقا واشتاف من نحو سهيل برقا
When he cast his eyebrows eastward and glimpsed lightning from the direction of Suhail.
وتشوقت إلى الشئ، أي تطلعت إليه.
And you longed for the thing, meaning you looked forward to it.
يقال: النساء يتشوفن من السطوح، أي ينظرن ويتطاولن.
It is said: The women look out from the rooftops, meaning they gaze and stretch themselves up.
وشيفة القوم: طليعتهم الذي يشتاف لهم.
And the vanguard of the people: their scout who looks out for them.
وأشاف على الشئ، أي أشرف عليه، وهو قلب أشفى عليه.
And he looked over the thing, meaning he overlooked it, and it is the heart of 'to overlook it'.