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خلف
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Arabic
Etymology 1.1
Pronunciation
Preposition
خَلْفَ • (ḵalfa)
- behind
- 2019, Courtney Charley, chapter 1, in نِسَاء صَغِيرَات, translation of Little Women by Louisa Alcott (in English):
- بَدَأَت جُو تَمْشِي ذَهَابًا وَإِيَابًا وَيَدَاهَا خَلْفَ ظَهْرِهَا، كَٱلرَّجُلِ.
- badaʔat jū tamšī ḏahāban waʔiyāban wayadāhā ḵalfa ẓahrihā, kar-rajuli.
- Joe started walking back and forth with her hands behind her back, like a man.
Inflection
Derived terms
- مِنْ خَلْفِ (min ḵalfi)
Etymology 1.2
Pronunciation
Noun
خَلْف • (ḵalf) m (plural خُلُوف (ḵulūf))
- verbal noun of خَلَفَ (ḵalafa) (form I)
- location that is behind
- time past
- back
- successor, descendant
- descendants
- remnant of people
- succeeding generation, progeny
- short rib
- someone absent from the tribe or just returned
Declension
Etymology 1.3
From Proto-Semitic *ḫalap-. Cognate with Biblical Hebrew חָלַף (ḥɔlap̄, “to move past”).
Pronunciation
Verb
خَلَفَ • (ḵalafa) I (non-past يَخْلُفُ (yaḵlufu), verbal noun خَلْف (ḵalf))
- to succeed, to follow, to come after
- to substitute for
- to replace
- to lag behind
- to stay behind
- to be detained, to stay away
Conjugation
Etymology 1.4
Pronunciation
Verb
خَلَّفَ • (ḵallafa) II (non-past يُخَلِّفُ (yuḵallifu), verbal noun تَخْلِيف (taḵlīf))
Conjugation
References
- Freytag, Georg (1830), “خلف”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 516–518
- Lane, Edward William (1863-1893), “خلف”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 792.
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “خلف”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 337
- Wehr, Hans (1979), “خلف”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 297
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South Levantine Arabic
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Verb
خلف • (ḵalaf) I (present بخلف (biḵlif))
Conjugation
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
Verb
خلّف • (ḵallaf) II (present بخلّف (biḵallef))
- to give birth
- Synonym: جاب (jāb)
Conjugation
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