خافت

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Arabic

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Etymology 1

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Root
خ ف ت (ḵ f t)
2 terms

Verb

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خَافَتَ (ḵāfata) III (non-past يُخَافِتُ (yuḵāfitu), verbal noun مُخَافَتَة (muḵāfata))

  1. to ruminate, to make a faint continuous chewing noise (of camels and cattle)
  2. to speak in a low voice, to lower one's voice [with بِ (bi) ‘in one's words, reading, etc.’]
    1. (figurative) to be a mystery; to be a thing unspoken; to make a thing secret, private or restricted to the public or masses
      • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 17:110:
        قُلِ ادْعُوا اللَّهَ أَوِ ادْعُوا الرَّحْمَٰنَ ۖ أَيًّا مَّا تَدْعُوا فَلَهُ الْأَسْمَاءُ الْحُسْنَىٰ ۚ وَلَا تَجْهَرْ بِصَلَاتِكَ وَلَا تُخَافِتْ بِهَا وَابْتَغِ بَيْنَ ذَٰلِكَ سَبِيلًا
        Say: Call on God or call on the all-Encompassing; whatever that you may call, the characteristics which are best belong to Him. And do not make a spectacle of you keeping close to God nor make a mystery of it, but cause yourselves to behoove from a course between that.
Conjugation
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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خَافَتْ (ḵāfat) (form I) /xaː.fat/

  1. third-person feminine singular past active of خَافَ (ḵāfa)