ليف

Meaning

Noun

1. (collective) fibres, spongy interior of a plant
2. (collective) a handheld sponge
3. (collective) Luffa (genus and species)
4. (collective) fibres, tubular cells of bodily tissue

Verb

1. to have much fibre
2. to rub with fibre or a sponge

Concepts

lev

fiber

fibers

dietary fiber

synthetic fiber

synthetic fibers

rub with palm fibers

Synonyms

ألياف غذائية

Translations

fibra cel·lulosa

fibra alimentària

Ballaststoff

άπεπτη φυτική ίνα

διαιτητική ίνα

lev

fibre alimentaire

lev

fibra alimentare

fibra alimentar

fibra dietética

leva

fibra alimentaria

Etymology

From the root ل ف ف (l f f) meaning “to fold up or roll up in”, “to wrap or envelop”, “an envelope of a plant, a pericarp or glume”.
Also suspicious of Aramaic substrate however, as Classical Syriac ܠܘܦܐ (lawpā, lūpā) means “parietary” and “arum” or “edder-wort”, deriving well from ܠܴܦ (lāp̄, “to weave together, to conjoin”), and the form لُوف (lūf) is stronger in the dialects with the additional meaning of “arum”, which is mentioned for Syriac already in the 1ˢᵗ-century Dioskurides interpolations 2:167. Compare the Aramaic-borrowed كَافُور (kāfūr, “bract of the inflorescence of the date palm”) and خُوص (ḵūṣ, “frond or leaves of the palm tree”) from similar semantic domain.