# خف
## Arabic
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /xaf.fa/

#### Verb

خَفَّ • (ḵaffa) I (non-past يَخِفُّ (yaḵiffu), verbal noun خِفَّة (ḵiffa))
* to be lightweight
** 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 101:6-11:فَأَمَّا مَن ثَقُلَتْ مَوَازِينُهُ ۝ فَهُوَ فِي عِيشَةٍ رَاضِيَةٍ ۝ وَأَمَّا مَنْ خَفَّتْ مَوَازِينُهُ ۝ فَأُمُّهُ هَاوِيَةٌ ۝ وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا هِيَهْ ۝ نَارٌ حَامِيَةٌ(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* to become lighter in weight, to lose weight
* (intransitive) to decrease, to abate, to lessen
    خَفَّ الْمَطَرُ ― ḵaffa l-maṭaru ― the rain abated
* to depart, go away [with عَن (ʕan) ‘from somewhere’]
* (of colors) to be less vivid, to be bleached

##### Antonyms

* ثَقُلَ (ṯaqula)

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /xuff/

#### Noun

خُفّ • (ḵuff) m (plural أَخْفَاف (ʔaḵfāf) or خِفَاف (ḵifāf))
* (dated) the hoof of a camel
    Synonym: فِرْسِن (firsin)
    Hypernym: حَافِر (ḥāfir)
* (figurative) boot
** 7th century CE, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, 39:210:بَيْنَمَا رَجُلٌ يَمْشِي بِطَرِيقٍ ٱشْتَدَّ عَلَيْهِ الْعَطَشُ، فَوَجَدَ بِئْرًا فَنَزَلَ فِيهَا فَشَرِبَ ثُمَّ خَرَجَ، فَإِذَا كَلْبٌ يَلْهَثُ، يَأْكُلُ الثَّرَى مِنَ الْعَطَشِ، فَقَالَ الرَّجُلُ: لَقَدْ بَلَغَ هَذَا الْكَلْبَ مِنَ الْعَطَشِ مِثْلُ الَّذِي كَانَ بَلَغَ مِنِّي، فَنَزَلَ الْبِئْرَ فَمَلَأَ خُفَّهُ مَاءً ثُمَّ أَمْسَكَهُ بِفِيهِ حَتَّى رَقِيَ فَسَقَى الْكَلْبَ فَشَكَرَ اللَّهُ لَهُ فَغَفَرَ لَهُbaynamā rajulun yamšī biṭarīqin štadda ʕalayhi l-ʕaṭašu, fawajada biʔran fanazala fīhā fašariba ṯumma ḵaraja, faʔiḏā kalbun yalhaṯu, yaʔkulu ṯ-ṯarā mina l-ʕaṭaši, faqāla r-rajulu: laqad balaḡa haḏā l-kalba mina l-ʕaṭaši miṯlu llaḏī kāna balaḡa minnī, fanazala l-biʔra famalaʔa ḵuffahu māʔan ṯumma ʔamsakahu bifīhi ḥattā raqiya fasaqā l-kalba fašakara l-lahu lahu faḡafara lahu(please add an English translation of this quotation)

##### Declension
### Etymology 3
#### Verb

خَفْ • (ḵaf) (form I) /xaf/
* second-person masculine singular imperative of خَافَ (ḵāfa)

## Brahui
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Dravidian *kewi.

### Noun

خَف (xaf)
* (anatomy) ear

### Further reading

* Saleh Muhammad Shad (2021) “خف”, in Brahui English Dictionary, Quetta, Pakistan: Balochi Academy, →ISBN, page 104, column 1

## Persian
### Etymology

Apparently a Turkic borrowing. Compare Ottoman Turkish قاو (kav) / Azerbaijani qov (“tinder”) and خاو (hav, “fuzz, down”) / xov (“nap, pile”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [xʷaf]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [xʊf]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [xʊf]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [xʊf]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [xuf]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [xof]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [χuf]

### Noun

خف • (xof, xaf)
* amadou
* a singed tatter
* a bundle for clothing
    Synonym: بوغچه (bôğča)

### Further reading

* Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “خف”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
* Vullers, Johann August (1855) “خف”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎ (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 708b