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aṭfaʾa

put out, extinguish

أَطْفَأَ

Word

Verb · Form IV

Root

ط ف ء

Forms

Present
يُطْفِئُ
Verbal noun
إِطْفاء

In the library

يُرِيدُونَ أَنْ يُطْفِئُوا نُورَ اللَّهِ بِأَفْوَاهِهِمْ وَيَأْبَى اللَّهُ إِلَّا أَنْ يُتِمَّ نُورَهُ وَلَوْ كَرِهَ الْكَافِرُونَ

The Qurʾān, page 192 →
Conjugation
Person PastPresentCommand
he هُوَ أَطْفَأَيُطْفِئُ—
she هِيَ أَطْفَأَتتُطْفِئُ—
they two (m.) هُما أَطْفَآيُطْفِئانِ—
they two (f.) هُما أَطْفَأَتاتُطْفِئانِ—
they (m.) هُمْ أَطْفَأُوايُطْفِئُونَ—
they (f.) هُنَّ أَطْفَأْنَيُطْفِئْنَ—
you (m.) أَنْتَ أَطْفَأْتَتُطْفِئُأَطْفِئْ
you (f.) أَنْتِ أَطْفَأْتِتُطْفِئِينَأَطْفِئِي
you two أَنْتُما أَطْفَأْتُماتُطْفِئانِأَطْفِئَا
you (m. pl.) أَنْتُمْ أَطْفَأْتُمتُطْفِئُونَأَطْفِئُوا
you (f. pl.) أَنْتُنَّ أَطْفَأْتُنَّتُطْفِئْنَأَطْفِئْنَ
I أَنا أَطْفَأْتُأُطْفِئُ—
we نَحْنُ أَطْفَأْنانُطْفِئُ—

From the same root

All words from ط ف ء →

Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 6 entries
  • طَفِيأَتِ النَّارُ Form I The fire became extinguished, or quenched
    , aor. , inf. n. طُفُوْءٌ (S, Msb, K) and طَفَأٌ; (TA;) and ↓ انطفأت; (S, K;) The fire became extinguished, or quenched: (Msb:) or ceased to flame: (K, TA:) [or rather, ceased to flame and its live coals became cool; for] when the flame of the fire has become allayed but its coals still burn, it is said to be خَامِدَة; and when its flame is extinct and its coals have become cool, it is said to be هَامِدَة and ↓ طَافِيأَة. (TA.)
  • اطفأ النَّارَ Form IV He extinguished, or quenched, the fire
    He extinguished, or quenched, the fire. (S, * Msb, K, * TA.) Hence, اطفأ الحَرْبَ (tropical:) He extinguished the fire of the war. (TA.) And أَطْفَأْتُ الفِتْنَةَ (tropical:) I allayed the sedition, or conflict and faction, or the like. (Msb.)
  • إِنْطَفَاَ Form VII Open entry
    see the first paragraph.
  • نَارٌ طَافِيأَةٌ Fire becoming, or become, extinguished
    [Fire becoming, or become, extinguished]: see 1.
  • مُطْفِيأُ الجَمْرِ The extinguisher of the live coals
    [The extinguisher of the live coals;] one of the [seven] days called أَيَّامُ العَجُوزِ; (S, O;) the fifth of those days; (K;) so in the M &c.: (TA:) or the fourth thereof: (O, K:) or the last thereof. (Har p. 295.) [Accord. to modern Egyptian almanacs, it is the fourth of those days on which the last of the three جَمَرَات becomes extinct: see جَمْرَةٌ: and see also عَجُوزٌ] ― -b2- مُطْفِيأَةُ الرَّضْفِ (so in the M and O and L and in some copies of the K, in other copies of the K مُطْفِيأُ, TA) A piece of fat which, when it falls upon the رَضْف [or heated stones], melts, and quenches them. (Lth, O, K.) And in the M and L, it is said to signify A lean sheep or goat: the Arabs, as is related by Lh, used to say, حَدَسَ لَهُمْ بِمُطْفِيأَةِ الرَّضْفِ (TA) i. e. He slaughtered for them a lean sheep or goat, which extinguished the fire and did not become thoroughly cooked: (M and L and K in art. حدس:) or a fat sheep or goat, (AO and T, TA in that art.,) which quenched the رَضْف by its fat. (T, TA ibid. [See also دَمَغَ.]) ― -b3- Also A serpent, the poison of which, as it passes by the رَضْف, extinguishes their fire: (O, K:) in a verse of El-Kumeyt, [for the sake of the metre,] the former word is [altered to] ↓ مُطَفِّيأَة. (O.) ― -b4- And (tropical:) A calamity, or misfortune: (O, K, TA:) said by AO to mean originally such as has made one to forget that which was before it, and extinguished its heat. (O, TA.)
  • مُطَفِّيأَةُ الرَّضْفِ Open entry
    : see the next preceding paragraph.

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