لوف
Arabic
Alternative forms
- لِيف (līf)
Etymology
Variant of لِيف (līf), more dialectal if not in the botanical senses.
Noun
لُوف • (lūf) m (collective, singulative لُوفَة f (lūfa))
- fibres, spongy interior of a plant
- a handheld sponge
- Luffa (genus and species)
- Arum (genus and species), also Arisarum vulgare
Declension
| collective | basic collective triptote | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | construct | |
| informal | لُوف lūf |
اللُّوف al-lūf |
لُوف lūf |
| nominative | لُوفٌ lūfun |
اللُّوفُ al-lūfu |
لُوفُ lūfu |
| accusative | لُوفًا lūfan |
اللُّوفَ al-lūfa |
لُوفَ lūfa |
| genitive | لُوفٍ lūfin |
اللُّوفِ al-lūfi |
لُوفِ lūfi |
| singulative | singulative triptote in ـَة (-a) | ||
| indefinite | definite | construct | |
| informal | لُوفَة lūfa |
اللُّوفَة al-lūfa |
لُوفَة lūfat |
| nominative | لُوفَةٌ lūfatun |
اللُّوفَةُ al-lūfatu |
لُوفَةُ lūfatu |
| accusative | لُوفَةً lūfatan |
اللُّوفَةَ al-lūfata |
لُوفَةَ lūfata |
| genitive | لُوفَةٍ lūfatin |
اللُّوفَةِ al-lūfati |
لُوفَةِ lūfati |
| dual | indefinite | definite | construct |
| informal | لُوفَتَيْن lūfatayn |
اللُّوفَتَيْن al-lūfatayn |
لُوفَتَيْ lūfatay |
| nominative | لُوفَتَانِ lūfatāni |
اللُّوفَتَانِ al-lūfatāni |
لُوفَتَا lūfatā |
| accusative | لُوفَتَيْنِ lūfatayni |
اللُّوفَتَيْنِ al-lūfatayni |
لُوفَتَيْ lūfatay |
| genitive | لُوفَتَيْنِ lūfatayni |
اللُّوفَتَيْنِ al-lūfatayni |
لُوفَتَيْ lūfatay |
| paucal (3-10) | sound feminine paucal | ||
| indefinite | definite | construct | |
| informal | لُوفَات lūfāt |
اللُّوفَات al-lūfāt |
لُوفَات lūfāt |
| nominative | لُوفَاتٌ lūfātun |
اللُّوفَاتُ al-lūfātu |
لُوفَاتُ lūfātu |
| accusative | لُوفَاتٍ lūfātin |
اللُّوفَاتِ al-lūfāti |
لُوفَاتِ lūfāti |
| genitive | لُوفَاتٍ lūfātin |
اللُّوفَاتِ al-lūfāti |
لُوفَاتِ lūfāti |
Descendants
- → Translingual: Luffa
- → Czech: lufa
- → English: loofah, loofa, luffa
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic script: лу̏фа
- Latin script: lȕfa
- → Slovak: lufa
- → Turkish: lif
References
- Freytag, Georg (1837) “لوف”, 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 136
- Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “لوف”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[2] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1174