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أُفٌّ ذ Dirt, or filth; as also ↓ أُفَّةٌ : (S:) you say, أُفَّا لَهُ, and ↓ أُفَّةً , Dirt, or filth, to him; in which the tenween is for the purpose of rendering them indeterminate; (S;) and أُفَّ لَهُ وَ تُفٌّ; (T;) and وَتُفَّةً ↓ أُفَّةً ; and أُفَّا وَتُفَّا; (T, S;) the latter of which is an imitative sequent: (S:) or أُفٌّ signifies the dirt of the ear; and تُفٌّ, the dirt of the nails; (As, T, M, K; but in the last, of the nail;) the phrases mentioned above being used on the occasion of deeming a thing dirty or filthy, and afterwards on the occasion of experiencing annoyance or disgust at anything; (As, T, M,* TA;) and ↓ أَفَفٌ , also, has the former of these two meanings: (TA:) or أُفٌّ signifies the dirt around the nail; (M;) or the dirt of the nail; (K;) and تُفٌّ, the dirt in the nail: (M:) or the former, a paring of the nail: and a piece of stick, or a reed, which one takes up from the ground: (K:) in these various senses they are explained as used in the saying, أُفَّا لَهُ وَتُفَّا: (TA:) or the former signifies stink: (Zj, TA:) or paucity; (T, M, K) as also ↓ أَفَفٌ ; (M;) or from ↓ أَفَفٌ signifying a thing little in quantity; (T; and the same meaning is assigned to this word in the K;) and تُفٌّ is an imitative sequent, (T, M, K,) of the same meaning. (M.) ― -b2- أُفّ, also, is a word expressive of vexation, distress of mind, or disgust; (M, Mgh;) or of dislike, displeasure, or hatred; (K;) and has six forms; (T, S;) mentioned by Akh; (S;) or ten; (M;) or forty; (K;) or more; (TA;) as follow: أُفِّ and أُفَّ and أُفُّ and أُفٍّ and أُفَّا and أُفٌّ (T, S, M, K) and أُفِّ and أُفَ and أُفُ and أُفٍ and أُفًا and أُفٌ (K) and أُفْ (M, K) and أُفّْ and ↓ أُفَّى , pronounced with imáleh, (M, K,) i. e. with pure imáleh, and ↓ أُفَّى with intermediate imáleh, and ↓ أُفَّى without imáleh, the alif [written ى] in these three denoting the fem. gender, and ↓ أُفِّى , with kesr to the ف, (K,) i. e., as a prefixed noun with its complement, [the latter being the pronoun of the first pers.,] (TA,) and ↓ أُفُّوْهْ , (K,) with damm to the أ and ف, which latter is with teshdeed, and with the و and ه quiescent, (TA,) and ↓ أُفَّةْ [in a copy of the M ↓ أُفَّةً ] and ↓ أُفِهْ and ↓ أُفُّهْ (K) and ↓ إِِفْ and ↓ إِِفّْ and ↓ إِِفِ and ↓ إِِفٍ and ↓ إِِفًا and ↓ إِِفٌ and ↓ إِِفٍّ and ↓ إِِفًّ and ↓ إِِفٌّ and ↓ إِِفُّ , with damm to the ف, which is with teshdeed, [in a copy of the M ↓ إِِفَّ ,] and ↓ إِِفَّا , like إِِنَّا, and ↓ إِِفَّى , pronounced with imáleh, and ↓ إِِفِّى , with kesr, (K,) i. e., prefixed to the pronoun of the first person, (IAmb,) and ↓ أَفْ and ↓ أَفِّ (K) and ↓ أَفٍّ or ↓ أَفٍ and ↓ آفِ , or ↓ آفِّ , and ↓ آفٍ , or ↓ آفٍّ , (accord. to different copies of the K,) [all these forms, making the number (forty) mentioned by the author of the K, I have drawn from a comparison of three copies of that work, and I believe them to be correct: some other forms are mentioned by SM as perhaps indicated in the K; but I see no good reason for this: he then adds,] and ↓ أَفَهْ and ↓ أَفُوهْ and ↓ أَفَّهْ , the last mentioned by IB on the authority of IKtt. (TA.) أُفِّ, [with its variants,] in its primary sense, denotes one's blowing at a thing that falls upon him, such as dust or ashes; or at the place, to remove therefrom what is annoying; therefore people say, at anything that they deem troublesome, or displeasing, or hateful, أُفِّ لَهُ [as though meaning A puff, or blast of breath, to it]: (Kt, T:) or [rather] it is a word imitative of a sound; [like ugh in English, both in sound and meaning; and in meaning like our interjections foh and faugh;] (Bd on the ex. in the Kur which will be found below, and TA;) denoting vexation, or distress of mind, or disgust; (Bd ubi suprà) or denoting contempt: (TA:) or it is a verbal noun, meaning I am vexed, or distressed in mind, or disgusted: (Bd ubi suprà:) or it is an imperative verbal noun [denoting disgust or abhorrence, like out, and away]: (IJ, M:) or he who says أُفَّا لَكَ uses it in the manner of an imprecation, like as one says وَيْلًا لِلْكَافِرِينَ; and he who says أُفٌّ لَكَ puts it in the nom. case because of the ل, like as one says وَيْلٌ لِلْكَافِرِينَ; and he who says أُفٍّ لَكَ puts it in the gen. case likening it to words imitative of sounds. (IAmb.) It is said in the Kur [xvii. 24], وَلَا تَقُلْ لَهُمَا أُفِّ, (T, S, TA,) or أُفٍّ, (TA, [in which other readings also are mentioned,]) [And say not thou to them (i. e. to thy father and mother) Ugh, &c.,] meaning, do not thou deem anything of their affairs burdensome, nor be contracted in bosom thereby, nor be rough, or harsh, or coarse, to them: (Kt, T:) or do not thou say to them anything expressive of the least disgust, when they have become old, but take upon thyself their service; أُفِّ signifying stink. (Zj, T.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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