خالف

• IPA^(key): /xaː.la.fa/

خَالَفَ • (ḵālafa) III (non-past يُخَالِفُ (yuḵālifu), verbal noun خِلَاف (ḵilāf) or مُخَالَفَة (muḵālafa))

1. to contradict, thwart, to disagree with [+ transitive (object)] on [+ بِ (object)]
   • 2017 October 24, “الجبير: السعودية تؤيد موقف ترمب من إيران”, in TheBaghdadPost.com‎^[1], archived from the original on 26 October 2017:

     .وخالف الرئيس ترمب مواقف قوى كبرى أخرى هذا الشهر برفضه أن يقر رسميا التزام طهران ببنود الاتفاق النووي

     President Trump diverged this month from the positions of other major powers by refusing to acknowledge formally the commitment of Teheran to the clauses of the nuclear deal.

2. to disobey, go against, contravene
3. to transgress the law
4. to caper in walking

• وَافَقَ (wāfaqa)

• خَالِفْ تُعْرَفْ (ḵālif tuʕraf, proverb)

• Haywood, J.A., Nahmad, H.M. (1965) “خالف”, in A new Arabic grammar, 2^nd edition, London: Lund Humphries, →ISBN
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “خالف”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[2], London: W.H. Allen

From Arabic خَالَفَ (ḵālafa).

• IPA^(key): /xaː.laf/, [ˈxæː.laf]

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خالف • (ḵālaf) III (present بخالف (biḵālef))

1. to disagree with or oppose (an opinion or idea)

   Synonym: عارض (ʕāraḍ)

   Antonyms: وافق (wāfaʔ), أيّد (ʔayyad)

2. to contravene, to break the law