حَتٞاطَف
ḥatéṭaf (yaḥtéṭaf or yaḥteṭéfen/ľaḥtéṭaf)
basic morphological information

v. (VIII/VI)

to repent
сожалеть
تأسّف
LS 171; Bulakh 2024:146
text examples

saˁt ḥéyhe yaḥteṭéfen ‘A man (always) repents later’ (Bulakh 2024:146)

semantic notes

Probably a reflexive derivation from ḥéṭaf ‘to sweep off’ with semantic shift ‘to efface one’s own sin’, thus ‘to obliterate one's commited sin’ > ‘to repent’, as in Arabic ˁafā ‘to efface, to forgive’ (Lane 2092–2093) (Bulakh 2024:75, with fn. 51).

root
ḥṭf 3
By regular expression