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حذف

حذف

Arabic

Verb

حَذَفَ (ḥaḏafa) I, non-past يَحْذِفُ‎ (yaḥḏifu)

  1. to shorten, clip, curtail with accusative or with مِنْ (min) and genitive
  2. to take away, cut or clip off, reduce
  3. to strike or cross out
  4. (grammar, phonology) to elide, apocopate, drop by apheresis
  5. (mathematics, accounting) to deduct, subtract
  6. (ditransitive) to throw with accusative and بِـ (bi-), pelt
  7. to throw away, discard with بِـ (bi-)
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Etymology 2

Verb form II from the root ح ذ ف (ḥ-ḏ-f).

Verb

حَذَّفَ (ḥaḏḏafa) II, non-past يُحَذِّفُ‎ (yuḥaḏḏifu)

  1. (transitive) to clip, trim
  2. (transitive) to give shape, to cut, clip, or trim into proper shape
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Etymology 3

Verbal noun from حَذَفَ (ḥaḏafa).

Noun

حَذْف (ḥaḏf) m

  1. shortening, curtailing, cutting off, trimming
  2. cancellation, crossing out, deletion, omission, dropping, suppression
  3. (grammar, phonology, phonetics) elision, deletion, ellipsis, apocope, apheresis
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