Arabic

Verb

تَفِ • ‎(tafi) ‎(form I)

1. second-person masculine singular non-past active jussive of وَفَى ‎(wafā)
2. third-person feminine singular non-past active jussive of وَفَى ‎(wafā)

Persian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Iranian, from Proto-Indo-Iranian, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ptyēw- ‎(“to spit, vomit”). Akin to Ossetian ту ‎(tu, “spittle”), Sanskrit ष्ठीवति ‎(ṣṭhīvati, “to spit”), Armenian թուք ‎(tʿukʿ, “spit, spittle”), Serbo-Croatian pljuvati ‎(“to spit”), Ancient Greek πτύω ‎(ptúō, “to spit out”), Latin spuō ‎(“to spit”), English spew.

Noun

تف • ‎(tof)

1. spittle

Derived terms

• تف کردن ‎(tof kardan)

Etymology 2

Related to Old Armenian տապ ‎(tap, “heat”), an Iranian borrowing. Related to تب ‎(tab).

Noun

تف • ‎(taf)

1. flame, heat, warmth

Derived terms

• تف دادن ‎(taf dâdan)

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “تف”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul