رفع

• IPA^(key): /ra.fa.ʕa/

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رَفَعَ • (rafaʕa) I (non-past يَرْفَعُ (yarfaʕu), verbal noun رَفْع (rafʕ))

1. to lift, to raise aloft, to hoist up, to heave up

   رَفَعَتْ يَدَيْهَا إِلَى السَّمَاءِ

   rafaʕat yadayhā ʔilā s-samāʔi

   She lifted her hands toward the sky.

2. to elevate, to heighten, to exalt, to enhance
3. to promote in rank
4. to fly (a kite), to run up (a flag)
5. to take off, to doff, to tip (one’s hat)
6. to erect, to set up
7. to remove, to take away, to end, to lift
8. to abolish, to eliminate

• IPA^(key): /ra.fu.ʕa/

رَفُعَ • (rafuʕa) I (non-past يَرْفُعُ (yarfuʕu), verbal noun رِفْعَة (rifʕa))

1. to become high, to become elevated, to become exalted (of a person; especially in value, position, esteem, etc.)
2. to become thin, to become fine (of a garment or piece of cloth)

رَفُعَ • (rafuʕa) I (non-past يَرْفُعُ (yarfuʕu), verbal noun تَفَاعَة (tafāʕa))

1. to become loud in voice (of a person)

رَفَّعَ • (raffaʕa) II (non-past يُرَفِّعُ (yuraffiʕu), verbal noun تَرْفِيع (tarfīʕ))

1. to lift, to raise, to elevate
2. to celebrate

رَفْع • (rafʕ) m

1. verbal noun of رَفَعَ (rafaʕa) (form I)
2. lifting, hoisting
3. elevation
4. raising, increasing
5. erection
6. abolition, elimination, removal
7. remedy, remission, lifting
8. submission, filing
9. (grammar) pronouncing a final consonant with u as a mark of the nominative case (see desinential inflection) or indicative mood

• (grammar): نَصْب (naṣb), جَرّ (jarr)/خَفْض (ḵafḍ), جَزْم (jazm)

Borrowed from Arabic رَفْع (rafʕ).

رفع • (raf')

1. raising up, lifting, elevating
2. taking off, setting aside

   رفع حجاب ― raf'-e hejâb ― taking off the hijab

3. removal, abolition, elimination

   رفع بو ― raf'-e bu ― removing a stench

   رفع اشتباه ― raf'-e eštebâh ― amending errors

4. resolution, remedying, curing

   رفع اختلاف ― raf'-e extelâf ― resolution of differences

   رفع گرسنگی ― raf'-e gorosnegi ― sating one's hunger

   • c. 1030, Farrukhī Sīstānī, “Qaṣīda 164”, in دیوان فرخی سیستانی [Dīvān of Farrukhī]‎^[1]:

     خدمت او نعمت و دفع بلاست
     طاعت او راحت و رفع محن

     xidmat-i ō ni'mat u daf'-i balā-st
     tā'at-i ō rāhat u raf'-i mihan

     His service is grace, and the driving away of affliction;
     His righteousness is calm, and the remedy to calamities.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “رفع”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “رفع”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

From Arabic رَفَعَ (rafaʕa).

• IPA^(key): /ra.faʕ/, [ˈrˤɑ.fɑʕ]

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رفع • (rafaʕ) I (present برفع (birfaʕ))

1. to lift, to raise

From Arabic رَفَعَ (rafaʕa).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɾəf(ʔ)/

رَفْع • (raf') m (Hindi spelling रफ़)

1. elevation, ascending, exaltation

رَفْع • (raf') (Hindi spelling रफ़)

1. disposition, removal

• “رفع”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “رفع”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.