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خلف

Pronunciation: /xal.fa/

“خلف” is an Arabic word. Its 19 meanings in English:

preposition

  1. behind

noun

  1. location that is behind
  2. time past
  3. back
  4. successor, descendant
  5. descendants
  6. remnant of people
  7. succeeding generation, progeny
  8. short rib
  9. someone absent from the tribe or just returned

verb

  1. to succeed, to follow, to come after
  2. to substitute for
  3. to replace
  4. to lag behind
  5. to stay behind
  6. to be detained, to stay away
  7. to appoint as a successor
  8. to leave behind
  9. to have offspring

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *ḫalap-. Cognate with Biblical Hebrew חָלַף (ḥɔlap̄, “to move past”).

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