آفة

Arabic

Root
ء و ف (ʔ w f)
1 term

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʔaː.fa/

Noun

آفَة • (ʔāfa) f (plural آفَات (ʔāfāt))

damage, loss, calamity, harm, bane, pest, plague
آفَةُ الحَدِيثِ الكَذِبُ وَآفَةُ العِلْمِ النِّسْيَانُ
ʔāfatu al-ḥadīṯi l-kaḏibu wa-ʔāfatu al-ʕilmi n-nisyānu
The bane of discourse is lying; and the bane of science is forgetfulness.

آفَاتُ اللِّسَان
ʔāfātu al-lisān
The banes of the tongue. (a book by Imam Al-Ghazali.)
- c. 1200, يحيى بن محمد بن أحمد بن العوام [yaḥyā ibn muḥammad ibn ʔaḥmad ibn al-ʕawwām], edited by José Antonio Banqueri, كتاب الفلاحة [Book on Agriculture], volume 1, Madrid: Imprenta Real, published 1802^IA, Cap. 16, page 680:
  وقيل إن نضح بقدر جرة من ماء الزيتون قدر مائة جرة من الطعام لم يفسد ولم تصبه آفة وإن نضح عليه ماء الأفسنتين بقي ولم يفسد.
  It is said that when a jar of wheat is dampened with a jar of amurca it does not suffer decay nor damage, and if it is dampened with absinthe water, it stays and does not rot.

Declension

Declension of noun **آفَة** (ʔāfa)
singular	singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
singular	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	آفَة ʔāfa	الْآفَة al-ʔāfa	آفَة ʔāfat
nominative	آفَةٌ ʔāfatun	الْآفَةُ al-ʔāfatu	آفَةُ ʔāfatu
accusative	آفَةً ʔāfatan	الْآفَةَ al-ʔāfata	آفَةَ ʔāfata
genitive	آفَةٍ ʔāfatin	الْآفَةِ al-ʔāfati	آفَةِ ʔāfati
dual	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	آفَتَيْن ʔāfatayn	الْآفَتَيْن al-ʔāfatayn	آفَتَيْ ʔāfatay
nominative	آفَتَانِ ʔāfatāni	الْآفَتَانِ al-ʔāfatāni	آفَتَا ʔāfatā
accusative	آفَتَيْنِ ʔāfatayni	الْآفَتَيْنِ al-ʔāfatayni	آفَتَيْ ʔāfatay
genitive	آفَتَيْنِ ʔāfatayni	الْآفَتَيْنِ al-ʔāfatayni	آفَتَيْ ʔāfatay
plural	sound feminine plural
plural	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	آفَات ʔāfāt	الْآفَات al-ʔāfāt	آفَات ʔāfāt
nominative	آفَاتٌ ʔāfātun	الْآفَاتُ al-ʔāfātu	آفَاتُ ʔāfātu
accusative	آفَاتٍ ʔāfātin	الْآفَاتِ al-ʔāfāti	آفَاتِ ʔāfāti
genitive	آفَاتٍ ʔāfātin	الْآفَاتِ al-ʔāfāti	آفَاتِ ʔāfāti

Descendants

→ Persian: آفت (âfat)
- → Azerbaijani: afət
- → Ottoman Turkish: آفت
  - → Turkish: afet
- → Bengali: আফত (afôt)
- → Urdu: آفت (āfat)
- → Uyghur: ئاپەت (apet)
- → Uzbek: ofat
- → Kazakh: апат (apat)
- → Kyrgyz: апаат (apaat)
→ Tatar: афәт (afät)
→ Swahili: afa

References

Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “آفة”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 44
Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “آفة”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[2], London: W.H. Allen, page 60