ك ف ت
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]See discussion at كِفْت (kift, “cooking-pot”).
Root
[edit]ك ف ت • (k-f-t)
Derived terms
[edit]- Form I: كَفَتَ (kafata, “to take up, to draw towards oneself, to tuck up, to turn towards oneself; to turn off, to turn away, to avert”)
- Form I: كَفَتَ (kafata, “to hasten, to be swift and contract oneself therein, to turn aside to run with vehemence”)
- Form II: كَفَّتَ (kaffata, “to take up, to draw towards oneself, to turn towards oneself; to turn off, to turn away, to avert; to plate, to inlay”)
- Form III: كَافَتَ (kāfata, “to rivalise with in being fast on the course, to contend with in running”)
- Verbal noun: مُكَافَتَة (mukāfata)
- Active participle: مُكَافِت (mukāfit)
- Passive participle: مُكَافَت (mukāfat)
- Form V: تَكَفَّتَ (takaffata, “to amass all forces for being fast”)
- Verbal noun: تَكَفُّت (takaffut)
- Active participle: مُتَكَفِّت (mutakaffit)
- Form VII: اِنْكَفَتَ (inkafata, “to be turned away, to be averted”)
- Verbal noun: اِنْكِفَات (inkifāt)
- Active participle: مُنْكَفِت (munkafit)
- Form VIII: اِكْتَفَتَ (iktafata, “to take all”)
- Verbal noun: اِكْتِفَات (iktifāt)
- Active participle: مُكْتَفِت (muktafit)
- Passive participle: مُكْتَفَت (muktafat)
- كِفَات (kifāt, “place of aggregation”)
- كَفِيت (kafīt, “fast, swift, agile”)
- كُفْت (kuft) and كُفْتَة (kufta, “being a horse that leaps, springs, or bounds, so that one cannot take possession of it”)
References
[edit]- Freytag, Georg (1837) “ك ف ت”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 46
- Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ك ف ت”, 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[2] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, pages 912–913
- Lane, Edward William (1863) “ك ف ت”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[3], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2618–2619
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ك ف ت”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary[4], London: W.H. Allen, pages 889–889
- Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ك ف ت”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[5] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 975