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”)
  • Verbal noun: كَفْت (kaft)
  • 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^[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 C^ie, 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