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س-ف-ن

The Arabic root س-ف-ن (s-f-n)

Form I verb سَفَنَ: to skin

7 words in the dictionary are built from س-ف-ن, including verbs in Forms I, II. Each verb is listed with the nouns that come from it: its verbal noun (masdar), its participles, and words derived from it.

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Noun
سَفَّان
shipbuilder

Verbs and the nouns that come from them

سَفَنَ · present يَسْفِنُ
Form I · The plain action

to skin, to peel, to strip; to scrape off the surface of; to sweep the surface of the ground, blowing the dust off it or grinding it fine

سَفْن
Verbal noun
سُفُون
Verbal noun
سَافِن
Active participle
مَسْفُون
Passive participle
سَفَّنَ · present يُسَفِّنُ
Form II · Causative or intensive

to smooth, to plane, to pare

تَسْفِين
Verbal noun
مُسَفِّن
Active participle
مُسَفَّن
Passive participle

Other nouns and adjectives

Noun
ship
سَفَّان
Noun
shipbuilder
سَفَن
Noun
adze
سِفَانَة
Noun
shipbuilding

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