تَصْحِيف
corrupting a word by incorrectly reading or writing it
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ص-ح-ف
The Arabic root ص-ح-ف (s-h-f)
12 words in the dictionary are built from ص-ح-ف, including verbs in Forms II, IV, V. Each verb is listed with the nouns that come from it: its verbal noun (masdar), its participles, and words derived from it.
Most common
Verb · Form II
صَحَّفَ
to mishit with the pen
Verbs and the nouns that come from them
صَحَّفَ
· present يُصَحِّفُ
Form II · Causative or intensive
to write disambiguating marks in script erroneously, to mishit with the pen (to misvocalize, to point rasm wrong, or the like outside Arabic script, say putting wrong macrons in Latin script); to deface, to misrepresent
مُصَحِّف
مُصَحَّف
أَصْحَفَ
· present يُصْحِفُ
Form IV · Causative
to be bound, stitched (of a book)
إِصْحَاف
مُصْحِف
مُصْحَف
volume
تَصَحَّفَ
· present يَتَصَحَّفُ
Form V · Reflexive of Form II
to be erroneous, to have typos; to be misread, to be misrepresented
تَصَحُّف
مُتَصَحِّف
مُتَصَحَّف
Other nouns and adjectives
newspaper
journalism
journalistic
journalist
صِحَافِيّ
journalist
صَحَّاف
bookseller
صَحْفَة
large bowl
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