سفري

Arabic

Etymology 1

Relative adjective (nisba) composed of سَفَر (safar, travel, journey) + ـِيّ (-iyy).

Adjective

سَفَرِيّ • (safariyy) (feminine سَفَرِيَّة (safariyya), masculine plural سَفَرِيُّونَ (safariyyūna), feminine plural سَفَرِيَّات (safariyyāt))

  1. takeout, to go
Declension

Etymology 2

مُعَاوِيَة بْنِ صَالِح (muʕāwiya bni ṣāliḥ), chief judge of Córdoba, brought to his home city the pomegranate from Damascus and presented it to ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān I, following which the courtier سَفَر بْنِ عُبَيْد (safar bni ʕubayd) took a cutting and propagated the crop from it on his estate in the Province Rayya (كُورَة رَيّة (kūrat rayya), now Province of Málaga, but its capital then was Archidona), so that by the founder effect one had a new variety named after him.

Noun

سَفَرِيّ • (safariyy) m

  1. (al-Andalus, mountainous Morocco) a cultivar of pomegranate
Declension
Descendants
  • Portuguese: safario (adjective) (obsolete)
  • Spanish: zafarí, zaharí, zajarí, jaharí, zaharillo, azaharillo, zajarillo (Western Andalucía, obsolete)

References

  • Ibn Ḵātima (a. 1369) “Un document nouveau sur l’arabe dialectal d’Occident au XIIe siècle = إيراد اللآل من إنشاد الضوال [ʾīrad l-laʾāl min ʾinšād aḍ-ḍawāl]”, in G. S. Colin, editor, Hespéris, volume 12, number 1, published 1931, pages 27–28
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne, Engelmann, Wilhelm Hermann (1869) Glossaire des mots espagnols et portugais, dérivés de l’arabe (in French), 2nd edition, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 358
  • Mondéjar, José (1993) “Higo «xaharí», granada «çafarí» y naranja «zajarí» (arabismo de Andalucía Occidental)”, in Boletín de la Real Academia Española, volume 73, pages 439–462

Verb

سَفِّرِي • (saffirī) (form I)

  1. second-person feminine singular active imperative of سَفَّرَ (saffara)

Noun

سَفَرَيْ • (safaray) m du

  1. genitive/accusative dual construct state of سَفَر (safar)
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