لَفّ
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ل-ف-ف
The Arabic root ل-ف-ف (l-f-f)
Form I verb لَفَّ: to coil
18 words in the dictionary are built from ل-ف-ف, including verbs in Forms I, II, V, VIII. 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
لِيف
fibres
Verb · Form I
لَفَّ
to coil
Noun
لَفَّة
roll
Adjective
مَلْفُوف
wrapped
Verb · Form VIII
اِلْتَفَّ
to squirm
Noun
لِفَافَة
envelope
Verbs and the nouns that come from them
لَفَّ
· present يَلُفُّ
Form I · The plain action
to coil, to curl, to convolute, to spool, to twirl; to wrap, to envelop, to surround; to turn around, to circumgyrate, to make roundabouts, to be around
لَافّ
مَلْفُوف
wrapped
مَلْفُوف
cabbage
لَفَّة
roll
لِفَافَة
envelope
to have much fibre; to rub with fibre or a sponge
تَلْيِيف
مُلَيِّف
مُلَيَّف
لَفَّفَ
· present يُلَفِّفُ
Form II · Causative or intensive
to wrap, to envelop, to surround, swaddle
تَلْفِيف
مُلَفِّف
مُلَفَّف
تَلَفَّفَ
· present يَتَلَفَّفُ
Form V · Reflexive of Form II
to be wrapped, to wrap oneself, to envelop oneself
تَلَفُّف
مُتَلَفِّف
اِلْتَفَّ
· present يَلْتَفُّ
Form VIII · Reflexive, often idiomatic
to squirm, to wind oneself, to abound; to wind, to bend, to inflect, to wrap
اِلْتِفَاف
مُلْتَفّ
مُلْتَفّ
Other nouns and adjectives
file
لِيف
fibres
مِلَفَّة
file
لَفِيفَة
synonym of لِفَافَة
لِفّ
thicket
لَفِيف
group
تَلَيُّف
cirrhosis
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