خفاش

From خَفِشَ (ḵafiša, “to be day-blind, to have poor eyesight”).

خُفَّاش • (ḵuffāš) m (plural خَفَافِيش (ḵafāfīš))

1. bat (winged animal)

• خنفوش
• خفدود
• وطواط

• Hijazi Arabic: خُفَّاش (ḵuffāš)
• → Persian: خفاش (xoffâš)
• → Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܟ݂ܸܫܹܝܦ̮ܹܐ (ḵiššēfē)

From Arabic خُفَّاش (ḵuffāš).

• IPA^(key): /xuˈf.faːʃ/

خفاش • (ḵuffāš) m (plural خفافيش (ḵafāfīš))

1. bat (winged animal)

From Arabic خُفَّاش (ḵuffāš).

• IPA^(key): /xuf.faːʃ/

خفاش • (ḵuffāš) m (plural خفافش (ḵfāfiš))

1. bat (winged animal)

   Synonyms: طير الليل (ṭīr el-līl, ṭayr el-layl), سحت الليل (saḥt el-līl, saḥt el-layl)

Borrowed from Arabic خُفَّاش (ḵuffāš, “bat”).

خفاش • (huffaş) (definite accusative خفاشی (huffaşı), plural خفافيش (hafâfiş))

1. bat, any of the flying mammals of the order Chiroptera, usually small and nocturnal, insectivorous or frugivorous

   Synonyms: شبپره (şebpere), كیجه قوشی (gece kuşu), وطواط (vatvat), یراسه (yarasa)

• Turkish: huffaş

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “huffaş”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2002
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “huffâş”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 452
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “خفاش”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 546
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Vespertilio”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1745
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “خفاش”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1917
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “خفاش”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 856

Borrowed from Arabic خُفَّاش (ḵuffāš).

خفاش • (xoffâš) (plural خفاشان (xoffâšân), or خفاش‌ها (xoffâš-hâ))

1. bat (small, winged animal)

   Synonyms: شب‌کور (šab-kur), شَب‌پَره (šab-pare)

   • c. 1080, Nāṣir-i Khusraw, “Qaṣīda 123”, in دیوان ناصرخسرو [Dīvān of Nāṣir-i Khusraw]‎^[6]:

     که چون خفاش نتواند که بیند روی من نادان
     ز من پنهان شود زیرا منم خورشید رخشانش

     ki čūn xuffāš natwānad ki bēnad rōy-i man nādān
     zi man pinhān šawad zērā man-am xwaršēd-i raxšān-aš

     For, like the bat, the ignorant cannot bear to see my face;
     They hide from me because I am a shining sun to them.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “خفاش”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

From Arabic خُفَّاش (ḵuffāš).

• IPA^(key): /xaf.faːʃ/, [xafˈfæːʃ]

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خفّاش • (ḵaffāš) m (plural خفافيش (ḵafāfīš))

1. bat (winged animal)