صفر

From ص ف ر (ṣ f r, “void”), supposedly because pagan Arabs looted during this month and left the houses empty.

• IPA^(key): /sˤa.far/

صَفَر • (ṣafar) m (plural أَصْفَار (ʔaṣfār))

1. Safar, the second of the twelve months of the Muslim lunar calendar, each beginning with a new moon.

• شُبَاط (šubāṭ)
• فِبْرَايِر (fibrāyir)

صَفِرَ • (ṣafira) I (non-past يَصْفَرُ (yaṣfaru), verbal noun صَفَر (ṣafar) or صُفُور (ṣufūr))

1. to be empty, to be devoid, to be vacant

Causative of صَفِرَ (ṣafira, “to be empty”).

صَفَّرَ • (ṣaffara) II (non-past يُصَفِّرُ (yuṣaffiru), verbal noun تَصْفِير (taṣfīr))

1. to empty, to void, to vacate, to evacuate, to free

Compare صَفِرَ (ṣafira, “to be empty”).

صَفْر or صِفْر or صُفْر or صَفِر or صُفُر • (ṣafr or ṣifr or ṣufr or ṣafir or ṣufur) (masculine plural أَصْفَار (ʔaṣfār), elative أَصْفَر (ʔaṣfar))

1. empty, void, devoid, free from

Semantic loan from Sanskrit शून्य (śūnya), also with the original meaning of “empty, void”. Compare صَفْر (ṣafr, “empty, void”) (also صِفْر (ṣifr)).

• IPA^(key): /sˤifr/

صِفْر • (ṣifr) m (plural أَصْفَار (ʔaṣfār))

1. zero

   Eastern Arabic numeral: ٠ (0)

   • Next: واحد, or ١‎ = 1

• → Azerbaijani: sıfır
• → Northern Kurdish: sifir
• → Malay: sifar
• → Medieval Latin: zephirum
  • Corsican: zeru
  • Italian: zefiro > zero
    • → French: zéro
      • → Armenian: զրո (zro)
      • → English: zero
        • → Japanese: ゼロ (zero)
        • → Korean: 제로 (jero)
        • → Northern Kurdish: zêro
      • → Portuguese: zero
      • → Romanian: zero
      • → Russian: зеро́ (zeró)
    • → Maltese: żero
  • Sicilian: zeru
  • Spanish: cero
    • → Mapudungun: sero
• → Medieval Latin: cifra
  • → Esperanto: ĉifro
  • → Hungarian: cifra
  • Italian: cifra
  • Old French: cyfre, cyffre
    • → Middle English: siphre
      • English: cipher
    • → Middle Dutch: cifer, cipher
      • Dutch: cijfer
    • → Middle High German: zifer
      • German: Ziffer
        • → Czech: cifra
        • → Yiddish: ציפֿער (tzifer)
        • → Hebrew: סִפְרָה (sifrá)
    • French: chiffre
      • → German: Chiffre
        • → Czech: šifra, cifra
      • → Ottoman Turkish: شیفره (şifre)
        • Turkish: şifre
      • → Polish: szyfr
      • → Russian: шифр (šifr)
      • → Serbo-Croatian:

        Cyrillic script: ши̏фра, ци̏фра

        Latin script: šȉfra, cȉfra

  • → Polish: cyfra
  • Portuguese: cifra
  • Sicilian: cifra
  • Spanish: cifra
  • → Swedish: siffra
  • → Russian: ци́фра (cífra)
• → Ottoman Turkish: صفر (sıfır)
  • Turkish: sıfır
  • → Armenian: սըֆըր (səfər)
• → Classical Persian: صِفْر (sifr)
  • Dari: صِفْر (sifr)
  • Iranian Persian: صِفْر (sefr)
  • Tajik: сифр (sifr)
  • → Hindustani:

    Hindi: सिफ़र (sifar)

    Urdu: صِفْر (sifr)

  • → Punjabi:

    → Gurmukhi script: ਸਿਫ਼ਰ (sifar)

    → Shahmukhi script: صِفْر (ṣifr)

• → Swahili: sifuri

Causative from the root ص ف ر (ṣ-f-r), from which the color or defect adjective أَصْفَر (ʔaṣfar, “yellow”) also comes.

صَفَّرَ • (ṣaffara) II (non-past يُصَفِّرُ (yuṣaffiru), verbal noun تَصْفِير (taṣfīr))

1. to dye yellow, to make yellow, to color yellow

Related to أَصْفَر (ʔaṣfar, “yellow”), from the root ص ف ر (ṣ-f-r).

صُفْر or صُفَّر • (ṣufr or ṣuffar) m

1. brass
2. money

• → Lishana Deni: צפר (ṣəfər, “copper”)

In its meaning "jaundice", related to أَصْفَر (ʔaṣfar, “yellow”), from the root ص ف ر (ṣ-f-r).

صَفَر • (ṣafar) m

1. verbal noun of صَفِرَ (ṣafira) (form I)
2. (medicine) jaundice

Inflected form.

صُفْر • (ṣufr) m pl

1. plural of أَصْفَر (ʔaṣfar, “yellow”)

صَفَرَ • (ṣafara) I (non-past يَصْفِرُ (yaṣfiru), verbal noun صَفِير (ṣafīr))

1. to whistle
2. to hiss
3. to chirp, to stridulate
4. to scream (of a siren)

Presumably, originally an intensive of صَفَرَ (ṣafara, “to whistle, hiss, chirp”), later losing its intensive sense.

صَفَّرَ • (ṣaffara) II (non-past يُصَفِّرُ (yuṣaffiru), verbal noun تَصْفِير (taṣfīr))

1. to whistle
2. to hiss
3. to chirp, to stridulate
4. to scream (of a siren)

صفر • (ṣafar) I (non-past يصفر (yuṣfur))

1. to whistle

   الريح بيصفر في الشباك

   ir-rīḥ biyuṣfur fi š-šibbāk

   The wind whistles at the window.

ap=صافر
ap-tr=ṣāfir
pp=مصفور
pp-tr=maṣfūr
vn=
vn-tr=

صفر • (ṣaffar) I (non-past يصفر (yiṣaffar))

1. to whistle

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ap-tr=
pp=متصفر
pp-tr=mitṣaffar
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صفر • (ṣifr) m (plural أصفار (ʔaṣfār) or صفار (ṣifār))

1. zero

   صفر ع الشمال

   ṣifr ʕa š-šimāl

   zero on the left side (something worthless)

صفر

1. Jawi spelling of Safar‎.

صفر

1. Jawi spelling of sifar‎.

From Arabic أَصْفَر (ʔaṣfar).

• IPA^(key): /sˤfar/

• Audio:

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صفر • (ṣfar) (feminine صفرا (ṣafra), common plural صوفر (ṣūfer), masculine plural صفرين (ṣafrīn), feminine plural صفرات (ṣafrāt), elative أصفر (ʔaṣfar) or صفر (ṣfar))

1. yellow

Borrowed from Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr).

صفر • (sıfr, sıfır)

1. zero (0)

   Next number: بر (bir) (1)

صفر • (sıfır)

1. nought, naught, zero

• Turkish: sıfır
• → Armenian: սըֆըր (səfər)

Borrowed from Arabic صَفَر (ṣafar).

صفر • (safer)

1. Safar

• Turkish: safer

Borrowed from Arabic صَفَر (ṣafar).

صَفَر • (safar)

1. Safar

Borrowed from Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr).

• Audio (Iran):

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صِفْر • (sefr)

1. zero

صِفْر • (sefr)

1. nought, naught, cipher, zero

• سفر (sifr)

From Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr).

• IPA^(key): /sˤifr/, [sˤɪ.f(e)r]

صفر • (ṣifr)

1. zero

Borrowed from Classical Persian صِفْر (sifr), from Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr).

صِفْر • (sifr) m (Hindi spelling सिफ़र)

1. zero

صِفْر • (sifr) m (Hindi spelling सिफ़र)

1. nought, naught, cipher, zero