كهف

Phonetic variant of كَفّ (kaff, “cup of the hand”).

• IPA^(key): /kahf/
  • (Gulf) IPA^(key): /kəhf/

كَهْف • (kahf) m (plural كُهُوف (kuhūf))

1. cave
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 18:10:

     إِذْ أَوَى الْفِتْيَةُ إِلَى الْكَهْفِ فَقَالُوا رَبَّنَا آتِنَا مِنْ لَدُنْكَ رَحْمَةً وَهَيِّئْ لَنَا مِنْ أَمْرِنَا رَشَدًا

     ʔiḏ ʔawā l-fityatu ʔilā l-kahfi faqālū rabbanā ʔātinā min ladunka raḥmatan wahayyiʔ lanā min ʔamrinā rašadan

     Mufti Taqi: When the young men took refuge in the Cave and said, “Our Lord, bless us with mercy from Your own and provide us with guidance in our matters.”

• غَار (ḡār)

• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 1125
• Freytag, Georg (1837) “كهف”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 67a
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “كهف”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎^[2] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 939a

From Arabic كَهْف (kahf).

• IPA^(key): /kahf/

كهف • (kahf) m (plural كهوف (kuhūf)))

1. cave

• غار (ḡār, “grotto; small cave”)

From Arabic كَهْف (kahf).

• IPA^(key): /kahf/, [kahf]

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كهف • (kahf) m (plural كهوف (khūf))

1. cave

   Synonym: مغارة (mḡāra)