نِيف
nif (pl. níyɛf)
basic morphological information

n.

steep mountain slope
крутой горный склон
منحدر جبلي شديد الانحدار
CSOL III
text examples

ezˁómki ho wa-ˁag be-ŝέbŝeb di-ṭíyyoʰ tóˀo tóˀo ḷegnέnoʰ di-gέmeʰ aḷ-tŝóni kaḷ níyɛf di-ˀáḷḷaʰ wa-raḥ di-yekteḷéˀen be-ṭíyyoʰ ‘A friend of mine and I were sitting on the edge of a canyon. Whenever we leaned over to look down, we saw only the steep cliff faces of God and the wind whipping here and there in the canyon’ (CSOL III 14:15)

root
nyf
derivates
etymology

Borrowed from Arabic, cf. nāyifah ‘lofty mountain’ (Piamenta 501)