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Arabic
Etymology
See discussion at كِفْت (kift, “cooking-pot”).
Root
ك ف ت • (k-f-t)
- 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”)
- 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”)
- Form III: كَافَتَ (kāfata, “to rivalise with in being fast on the course, to contend with in running”)
- Form V: تَكَفَّتَ (takaffata, “to amass all forces for being fast”)
- Form VII: اِنْكَفَتَ (inkafata, “to be turned away, to be averted”)
- Form VIII: اِكْتَفَتَ (iktafata, “to take all”)
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 Cie, 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 with 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