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ع-ر-ف
The Arabic root ع-ر-ف (a-r-f)
Form I verb عَرَفَ: to know
25 words in the dictionary are built from ع-ر-ف, including verbs in Forms I, II, V, VI, VIII, X. Each verb is listed with the nouns that come from it: its verbal noun (masdar), its participles, and words derived from it.
Most common
Noun
اِعْتِرَاف
confession
Noun
عَرِيف
expert
Verb · Form II
عَرَّفَ
to define
Verbs and the nouns that come from them
to be familiar with (a person, a place, a piece of news or information, and so on); to know; to be familiar with (a skill or profession); to be experienced in; to be proficient at or in; can; to recognise (a person, a place, and so on); to identify; to recall
عِرْفَان
knowledge
عَارِف
knowing
عَارِف
expert
known
مَعْرُوف
beneficence
عَرِيف
expert
عَرِيف
knowing
عَرَّاف
diviner
عَرَّفَ
· present يُعَرِّفُ
Form II · Causative or intensive
to define; to tell about, to inform of, to make aware of; to acquaint with, to introduce to
تَعْرِيف
definition
مُعَرِّف
مُعَرَّف
تَعْرِيفَة
tariff
to become acquainted, with, to meet; to recognize; to trace, to discover
تَعَرُّف
مُتَعَرِّف
مُتَعَرَّف
تَعَارَفَ
· present يَتَعَارَفُ
Form VI · Mutual action
to get to know one another, become acquainted with one another; to become acquainted (بِ (bi) with)
تَعَارُف
مُتَعَارِف
مُتَعَارَف
اِعْتَرَفَ
· present يَعْتَرِفُ
Form VIII · Reflexive, often idiomatic
to confess, to own, to avow, to admit; to acknowledge; to recognize
اِعْتِرَاف
confession
مُعْتَرِف
مُعْتَرَف
اِسْتَعْرَفَ
· present يَسْتَعْرِفُ
Form X · Seeking or considering
to perceive
اِسْتِعْرَاف
مُسْتَعْرِف
مُسْتَعْرَف
Other nouns and adjectives
تَعْرِفَة
rate
عُرْف
custom
أَعْرَف
elative degree of عَرِيف
عُرْفِيّ
informal
عِرْفَانِيَّة
Gnosticism
عَرَفَة
Mount Arafat: mountain about 20 km east of central Mecca
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