ك ل ف

Arabic

Etymology

Univerbation of ك ل ل (k l l) +‎ فِي (fī).

Root

ك ل ف • (k-l-f)

1. related to incurred costs

Derived terms

• Form I: كَلِفَ (kalifa, “to spend zeal, pains and costs, to be eager; to fall in love; to get melasmata”)
  • Verbal noun: كَلَف (kalaf)
  • Active participle: كَالِف (kālif)
  • Passive participle: مَكْلُوف (maklūf)
• Form II: كَلَّفَ (kallafa, “to trouble with”)
  • Verbal noun: تَكْلِيف (taklīf)
  • Active participle: مُكَلِّف (mukallif)
  • Passive participle: مُكَلَّف (mukallaf)
• Form IV: أَكْلَفَ (ʔaklafa, “inspire eagerness or zeal in”)
  • Verbal noun: إِكْلَاف (ʔiklāf)
  • Active participle: مُكْلِف (muklif)
  • Passive participle: مُكْلَف (muklaf)
• Form V: تَكَلَّفَ (takallafa, “to charge oneself with the task of”)
  • Verbal noun: تَكَلُّف (takalluf)
  • Active participle: مُتَكَلِّف (mutakallif)
  • Passive participle: مُتَكَلَّف (mutakallaf)

• كَلِف (kalif, “amorously attracted”)
• كَلَّاف (kallāf, “stableman”)
• كُلْفَة (kulfa, “trouble, cost; a costly spot on something”)
• أَكْلَف (ʔaklaf, “of irregular brown-reddish spots”)
• كَوَالِف (kawālif, “hawthorn, albaspine”)

References

• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2015), Aperçu grammatical du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives synchroniques, diachroniques et panchroniques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 1115
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ك ل ف”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 483b–485a
• Freytag, Georg (1837) “ك ل ف”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 54b–55a
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ك ل ف”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎^[3] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 924b–925a
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ك ل ف”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[4], London: W.H. Allen, pages 893a–b
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “ك ل ف”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, pages 980b–981a
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ك ل ف”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[5] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 1115b–1116a