ك ف ل
Arabic
editRoot
editك ف ل • (k-f-l)
- related to folding in half, to backing, to doubling, to take up a rear position or be at another's back, to have or to watch someone's back
Derived terms
edit- Form I: كَفَلَ (kafala, “to take charge, to nurse, to rear”)
- Form I: كَفِلَ (kafila, “to guarantee, to stand sponsor”)
- Form II: كَفَّلَ (kaffala, “to put in care”)
- Form III: كَافَلَ (kāfala, “to contract with”)
- Verbal noun: مُكَافَلَة (mukāfala)
- Active participle: مُكَافِل (mukāfil)
- Passive participle: مُكَافَل (mukāfal)
- Form IV: أَكْفَلَ (ʔakfala, “to place as a surety”)
- Form V: تَكَفَّلَ (takaffala, “to function as a surety”)
- Verbal noun: تَكَفُّل (takafful)
- Active participle: مُتَكَفِّل (mutakaffil)
- Passive participle: مُتَكَفَّل (mutakaffal)
- Form VI: تَكَافَلَ (takāfala, “to function as a surety or vouch for each other”)
- Verbal noun: تَكَافُل (takāful)
- Active participle: مُتَكَافِل (mutakāfil)
- Passive participle: مُتَكَافَل (mutakāfal)
- كَفَل (kafal, “fundament of a beast; crupper, strapping behind the saddle”)
- كِفَالَة (kifāla), كُفُول (kufūl), كَفْل (kafl, verbal noun of form I)
- كَفِيل (kafīl, “that vouches for, guarantee, surety”, noun and adjective)
- كِفْل (kifl, “double; lot, portion; progeny; podex; a rounding of towels put over the camel’s hump or an ox’s yoke”)
References
edit- Freytag, Georg (1835) “ك ف ل”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 49
- Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ك ف ل”, 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 915–916
- Wehr, Hans (1979) “ك ف ل”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 976