ضيف
ẓ̂ayf (pl. ẓ̂uyúf)
basic morphological information

n. (recent Arabism, with the Arabic type of plural)

guest
гость
ضيف
Naumkin et al. 2013b:556; Bulakh et al. 2021:276; Wehr 640
text examples

a. ˁeŝk eṭóhor wa-gedáḥ tho ẓ̂ayf wa-ˀézˁamk šeʸh énṭen wa-ˁᵃṭaf ṭáhɛrk ‘I stood up and was about to leave, but a guest came to me, and I sat with him a little while. Then I left’ (Naumkin et al. 2013b)

b. fóŝik wa-ˀétoms be-ṣáḥen di-ẓ̂uyúf ‘I had a lunch (with some guests) and I took my share from the plate of the guests’ (Bulakh et al. 2021:276)

etymology

See also ẓ̂yf for the adapted borrowings from the same Arabic root attested already in the Vienna corpus.