Cf. GEZ kuf 'hoof' thought to be borrowed from ARB [LGz 276]; borrowed or related, k- is hard to explain.

    Note that TGR ḥǝfǝn 'hoof' [LH 104], though a full homonym of ḥǝfǝn 'both hands full' (see *ḥapn-/*ḥupn-, No. ), is probably of a different origin considering semantic diference from the latter; one wonders whether the underlying form can be *ḥupn, with a secondary -n (an old suffix or a result of contamination with ḥǝfǝn 'both hands full'?). There is also TNA ḥaf bälä 'levarsi su, alzarsi in piedi' [Bass 69], possibly to be compared to the present root.

    Note that the MSA examples may in principle be Arabisms (see in this connection the same broken plural pattern in ARB, HRS and JIB), though a different vocalism in MSA rather speaks against this assumption