ك ف ل

Arabic

Root

ك ف ل • (k-f-l)

1. 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

• Form I: كَفَلَ (kafala, “to take charge, to nurse, to rear”)
  • Active participle: كَافِل (kāfil)
  • Passive participle: مَكْفُول (makfūl)
• Form I: كَفِلَ (kafila, “to guarantee, to stand sponsor”)
  • Active participle: ?
  • Passive participle: مَكْفُول (makfūl)
• Form II: كَفَّلَ (kaffala, “to put in care”)
  • Verbal noun: تَكْفِيل (takfīl)
  • Active participle: مُكَفِّل (mukaffil)
  • Passive participle: مُكَفَّل (mukaffal)
• 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”)
  • Verbal noun: إِكْفَال (ʔikfāl)
  • Active participle: مُكْفِل (mukfil)
  • Passive participle: مُكْفَل (mukfal)
• 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

• 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 C^ie, 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