ك ف ت

ك ف ت

Arabic

Etymology

See discussion at كِفْت‎ (kift, “cooking-pot”).

Root

ك ف ت • (k-f-t)

1. related to fast turning

Derived terms

• 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”)
  • Active participle: كَافِت‎ (kāfit)
  • Passive participle: مَكْفُوت‎ (makfūt)
• Form I: كَفَتَ‎ (kafata, “to hasten, to be swift and contract oneself therein, to turn aside to run with vehemence”)
  • Verbal noun: كَفْت‎ (kaft), كِفَات‎ (kifāt), كَفْتَان‎ (kaftān), كَفِيت‎ (kafīt)
  • Active participle: كَافِت‎ (kāfit)
  • Passive participle: مَكْفُوت‎ (makfūt)
• 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”)
  • Verbal noun: تَكْفِيت‎ (takfīt)
  • Active participle: مُكَفِّت‎ (mukaffit)
  • Passive participle: مُكَفَّت‎ (mukaffat)
• Form III: كَافَتَ‎ (kāfata, “to rivalise with in being fast on the course, to contend with in running”)
  • Verbal noun: مُكَافَتَة‎ (mukāfata), كِفَات‎ (kifāt)
  • 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

• 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 (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 (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 912–913
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “ك ف ت”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2618–2619
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “ك ف ت”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, pages 889–889
• Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “ك ف ت”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 975