كيف

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Arabic

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaj.fa/
  • (file)

Adverb

كَيْفَ (kayfa)

  1. (interrogative) how
  2. however (in whatever way or state)
    • Quran 3:6
      هُوَ الَّذِي يُصَوِّرُكُمْ فِي الْأَرْحَامِ كَيْفَ يَشَاءُ
      huwa allaḏī yuṣawwirukum fī l-ʔarḥāmi kayfa yašāʔu
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Etymology 2

From the root ك ي ف (k-y-f).

Pronunciation

Noun

كَيْف (kayfm (plural كُيُوف (kuyūf))

  1. condition, state
  2. mood
  3. will
  4. pleasure, well-being, good humor, enjoyment, carouse, excitement from opium
  5. opiate, narcotic
Declension
Descendants
  • Armenian: քեֆ (kʻef)
  • Hebrew: כֵּיף (keif)
  • Russian: кайф (kajf)
  • Turkish: keyif

Etymology 3

In most of its senses, denominal from كَيْف (kayf). In the sense “to cut off entirely”, intensive of كَافَ (kāfa, to cut off).

Pronunciation

Verb

كَيَّفَ (kayyafa) II, non-past يُكَيِّفُ‎ (yukayyifu)

  1. to cut off entirely
  2. to regulate
  3. to form, to mold; to adapt, to fit, to modify, to qualify
  4. (modern) to bring one into good humor, to amuse one well
  5. (modern) to make one tipsy, to intoxicate
Conjugation

Hijazi Arabic

Etymology

From the root ك ي ف (k-y-f)

Pronunciation

Adverb

كيف (kēf)

  1. how?