حذف

Verb form I from the root ح ذ ف (ḥ ḏ f).

حَذَفَ • (ḥaḏafa) I (non-past يَحْذِفُ (yaḥḏifu), verbal noun حَذْف (ḥaḏf))

1. (transitive or intransitive) to shorten, to clip, to curtail [with accusative or مِن (min) ‘something’]
2. (transitive) to take away
3. to cut off, to clip off [with accusative ‘something’ and مِن (min) ‘from something else’]
4. to strike out, to cross out [with accusative ‘something’ and مِن (min) ‘from something else’]
5. (grammar, phonology, transitive) to elide, to apocopate, to drop by apheresis

   Synonym: أَسْقَطَ (ʔasqaṭa)

6. (mathematics, accounting, transitive) to deduct, to subtract
7. to pelt [with accusative ‘someone’ and بِ (bi) ‘with something’]
8. (intransitive) to throw away, to discard [with بِ (bi) ‘something’]

   حَذْفُ الْكَلِمَاتِ الْمُفْتَاحِيَّةِ الْآنِيَّةِ إِلْزَامِيٌّ عِنْدَمَا يَتَعَلَّقُ الْأَمْرُ بِخُصُوصِيَّةِ الْمَرْءِ.

   ḥaḏfu al-kalimāti l-muftāḥiyyati l-ʔāniyyati ʔilzāmiyyun ʕindamā yataʕallaqu l-ʔamru biḵuṣūṣiyyati l-marʔi.

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Verb form II from the root ح ذ ف (ḥ ḏ f).

حَذَّفَ • (ḥaḏḏafa) II (non-past يُحَذِّفُ (yuḥaḏḏifu), verbal noun تَحْذِيف (taḥḏīf))

1. (transitive) to clip, trim
2. (transitive) to give shape, to cut, clip, or trim into proper shape

Verbal noun from حَذَفَ (ḥaḏafa).

حَذْف • (ḥaḏf) m

1. shortening, curtailing, cutting off, trimming
2. cancellation, crossing out, deletion, omission, dropping, suppression
3. (grammar, phonology, phonetics) elision, deletion, ellipsis, apocope, apheresis
4. (computing) deletion

• إِسْقَاط (ʔisqāṭ)

• → Ottoman Turkish: حذف (hazf)
  • Turkish: hazif
• → Persian: حذف
• → Tajik: ҳазф (hazf)
• → Urdu: حَذَف (hazaf)

From the root ح ذ ف (ḥ ḏ f) in the sense of "trimming (especially laterally)", from the تَحْذِيفُ الشَّعَر (taḥḏīfu š-šaʕar, “undercut hairstyle”); so called for the distinctive teal-colored side patches on the bird's head.

حَذَف • (ḥaḏaf) m

1. teal (some birds in the genus Anas)

• حَذَفِيّ (ḥaḏafiyy, “teal-coloured”)

Borrowed from Arabic حَذْف (ḥaḏf).

حذف • (hazf)

1. omission

Learned borrowing from Arabic حَذَفَ (ḥaḏafa).

• IPA^(key): /ħa.zaf/, [ˈħa.zaf]

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حذف • (ḥazaf) I (present بحذف (biḥzif))

1. to delete
2. (mathematics) to subtract

Borrowed from Classical Persian حذف, from Arabic حَذْف (ḥaḏf)

حَذَف • (hazaf) ? (Hindi spelling हज़फ़)

1. delete