# سقف
## Arabic

* Root
* س ق ف (s q f)
* 2 terms

### Pronunciation
#### Noun

* IPA: /saqf/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

سَقْف • (saqf) m (plural سُقُوف (suqūf) or أَسْقُف (ʔasquf) or سُقُف (suquf))
* ceiling
** 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 16:26:قَدْ مَكَرَ الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ فَأَتَى اللهُ بُنْيَانَهُمْ مِنَ الْقَوَاعِدِ فَخَرَّ عَلَيْهِمُ السَّقْفُ مِنْ فَوْقِهِمْqad makara llaḏīna min qablihim faʔatā llāhu bunyānahum mina l-qawāʕidi faḵarra ʕalayhimu as-saqfu min fawqihim(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* roof

#### Descendants

* → Swahili: sakafu (“floor”)

### Verb

سَقَفَ • (saqafa) I (non-past يَسْقُفُ (yasqufu), verbal noun سَقْف (saqf))
* to ceil; to roof

#### Conjugation
### Verb

سَقَّفَ • (saqqafa) II (non-past يُسَقِّفُ (yusaqqifu), verbal noun تَسْقِيف (tasqīf))
* to ceil; to roof

#### Conjugation
### References

* Freytag, Georg (1833) “سقف”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 329
* Lane, Edward William (1863) “سقف”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1382–1383
* Wehr, Hans (1979) “سقف”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 484

## Egyptian Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic سَقْف (saqf).

### Pronunciation

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### Noun

سقف • (saʔf) m (plural سقوف (suʔūf) or سقفة (suʔufa) or أسقف (ʾasʔuf))
* ceiling

### References

* Hinds, Martin, Badawi, El-Said (1986) “س ق ف 1”, in A Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic‎, Beirut: Librairie du Liban, page 418

## Hijazi Arabic

* Root
* س ق ف
* 1 term

### Etymology

From Arabic سَقْف (saqf).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /saɡf/

### Noun

سقف • (sagf) m (plural سقوف (sugūf) or أسقُف (ʔasguf) or سُقُف (suguf))
* ceiling

#### See also

* سَطوح (saṭūḥ, “roof”)

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سَقْف (saqf).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [saqf]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [säqf]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [säqf]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [säqf]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [säqf]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [sæʁf]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [säqf]

### Noun

| Dari | سَقف |
| Iranian Persian | سَقف |
| Tajik | сақф |
سَقف • (saqf) (plural سُقوف (soquf) or سَقف‌ها (saqf-hâ))
* ceiling, roof
    Synonym: بام (bâm)
** c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume III, verse 4669:چون به خانه مرغ اشتر پا نهاد خانه ویران گشت و سقف اندر فتادčon be xâne-ye morğ oštor pâ nehâd xâne virân gašt o saqf andar fatâdWhen the camel set foot in the hen's house, the house was destroyed and the roof fell in.
** 1967, Samad Behrangi, ماهی سیاه کوچولو [The Little Black Fish]:خانه ی ماهی کوچولو و مادرش پشت سنگ سیاهی بود؛ زیر سقفی از خزه.xâne-ye mâhi-ye kučulu o mâdar-eš pošt-e sang-e siyâhi bud; zir-e saqfi az xaze.The house of the little fish and his mother was behind a black stone, under a roof of moss.

#### Usage notes

* With regard to houses, سقف (saqf) tends to mean “ceiling” and بام (bâm) tends to mean “roof”, though the distinction is not as strict as in English.

#### Derived terms

* سقف بندی (saqf-bandi)
* سقف دهان (saqf-e dahân)
* سقف سازی (saqf-sâzi)
* سقف مینا (saqf-e minâ)

## South Levantine Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic سَقْف (saqf).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Urban) /saʔf/, [ˈsa.ʔ(ɪ)f]
* IPA: (Bedouin) /saɡf/, [ˈsa.ɡ(ɪ)f]
* Audio (Ramallah):(file)

### Noun

سقف • (saʔf) m
* ceiling
* roof

#### See also

* سطح (saṭḥ, “flat roof”)