تكلف

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Arabic

Etymology 1

Root
ك ل ف (k l f)
6 terms

Verb

تَكَلَّفَ (takallafa) V (non-past يَتَكَلَّفُ (yatakallafu), verbal noun تَكَلُّف (takalluf))

  1. (transitive) to take on (a duty, responsibility, task, etc.)
  2. (transitive) to feign, to pretend to do (something)
  3. (transitive) to force oneself to do (something)
  4. (transitive) to do reluctantly, to force (e.g. a smile)
  5. (transitive or intransitive) to burden oneself with
  6. (transitive) to spend
  7. (transitive) to cost
  8. (intransitive) to use contrived, affected, awkward language (also e.g. of a poet due to the metre)
Conjugation

Noun

تَكَلُّف (takallufm

  1. verbal noun of تَكَلَّفَ (takallafa) (form V)
Declension
Descendants

Etymology 2

Verb

تكلف (form I)

  1. تَكْلَفُ (taklafu) /tak.la.fu/: inflection of كَلِفَ (kalifa):
    1. second-person masculine singular non-past active indicative
    2. third-person feminine singular non-past active indicative
  2. تَكْلَفَ (taklafa) /tak.la.fa/: inflection of كَلِفَ (kalifa):
    1. second-person masculine singular non-past active subjunctive
    2. third-person feminine singular non-past active subjunctive
  3. تَكْلَفْ (taklaf) /tak.laf/: inflection of كَلِفَ (kalifa):
    1. second-person masculine singular non-past active jussive
    2. third-person feminine singular non-past active jussive

Etymology 3

Verb

تكلف (form II)

  1. تُكَلِّفُ (tukallifu) /tu.kal.li.fu/: inflection of كَلَّفَ (kallafa):
    1. second-person masculine singular non-past active indicative
    2. third-person feminine singular non-past active indicative
  2. تُكَلَّفُ (tukallafu) /tu.kal.la.fu/: inflection of كَلَّفَ (kallafa):
    1. second-person masculine singular non-past passive indicative
    2. third-person feminine singular non-past passive indicative
  3. تُكَلِّفَ (tukallifa) /tu.kal.li.fa/: inflection of كَلَّفَ (kallafa):
    1. second-person masculine singular non-past active subjunctive
    2. third-person feminine singular non-past active subjunctive
  4. تُكَلَّفَ (tukallafa) /tu.kal.la.fa/: inflection of كَلَّفَ (kallafa):
    1. second-person masculine singular non-past passive subjunctive
    2. third-person feminine singular non-past passive subjunctive
  5. تُكَلِّفْ (tukallif) /tu.kal.lif/: inflection of كَلَّفَ (kallafa):
    1. second-person masculine singular non-past active jussive
    2. third-person feminine singular non-past active jussive
  6. تُكَلَّفْ (tukallaf) /tu.kal.laf/: inflection of كَلَّفَ (kallafa):
    1. second-person masculine singular non-past passive jussive
    2. third-person feminine singular non-past passive jussive