قذيفة

Arabic

Root
ق ذ ف‎ (q-ḏ-f)

Etymology

Instance noun from قَذَفَ‎ (qaḏafa, “to throw”)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /qa.ðiː.fa/

Noun

قَذِيفَة • (qaḏīfa) f (plural قَذَائِف‎ (qaḏāʔif) or قَذِيفَات‎ (qaḏīfāt))

(countable) projectile
(countable) missile, bomb, shell

Declension

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Derived terms

قَذِيفَة مُوَجَّهَة‎ (qaḏīfa muwajjaha, “guided missile”)

References

Wehr, Hans (1979), “قذف”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

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