Arabic

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Root
ك ف ي (k f y)
5 terms

Pronunciation

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IPA(key): /ik.ta.faː/

Verb

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اِكْتَفَى (iktafā) VIII (non-past يَكْتَفِي (yaktafī), verbal noun اِكْتِفَاء (iktifāʔ))

  1. (constructed with بِ) to content oneself with
    • 2017 October 24, “بوابات الاحتلال في الولجة تمهد لعزل المواطنين عن اراضيهم”, in AlQuds.com[1], archived from the original on 24 October 2017:
      .لم يكتف الاحتلال ببناء الجدار الفاصل وعزلنا عن مقبرة العائلة واراضينا ومصادرة أكثر من 13 دونما من اراضينا الزراعية، يريد اليوم التحكم في عملية الدخول والخروج من والى النفق
      The [Israeli] occupation does not content itself with the building of the separating wall and in secluding us from the family graveyard and our lands and with the confiscation of more than 13 dunam of our croplands, it yearns for the day of mastership in the process of entering and leaving from and to the tunnel.
  2. to get by, to get along

Conjugation

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