كفأ

كَفَأَ / تَكفَّأَ

To invert or turn a vessel or similar object upside down.

The Form V expression may describe an object being inverted; the Form I verb may also describe actively turning it over.

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كُفِئَتْ جَفْنَتُهُ

Figuratively, to be slain, literally expressed as one's bowl being overturned.

A tropical idiom, not a general physical meaning of the verb.

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كَفَأَ

To incline or make something incline or turn aside, especially a bow or vessel.

The verb may be transitive or intransitive; the evidence does not restrict the object to a particular class.

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كَفَأَ

To turn someone or something away or back from a desired course or undertaking.

Also used intransitively of turning away or back.

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كَفَأَ

To drive away; specifically, to assault camels and carry them off.

The camel-related usage describes a forceful raid and removal.

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كَفَأَ

To follow or pursue another.

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كَفَأَ

Of sheep, to enter a ravine.

An intransitive usage attested with the ravine as the destination.

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كَفِئُ اللَّوْنِ / مُكْفَأُ الوَجْهِ

Changed in colour or changed in countenance.

Used of a face or other thing whose colour or appearance has altered.

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كَافَأَ

To requite, compensate, or recompense someone for something.

The corresponding noun may express requital or the ability to requite.

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كَافَأَ

To be equal to someone or something, or to match it.

This is the Form III lexical use, distinct from the Quranic noun citation form.

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كَافَأَ

To watch or observe someone.

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كَافَأَ

To repel, keep away, withstand, or resist.

In a reciprocal combat construction, it may describe thrusting or stabbing one opponent and then another.

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لَا مُكَافَأَةَ عِنْدِي

In a conventional phrase, absence of concealment or withholding of information.

Attested in the expression meaning that nothing is concealed from the speaker.

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أَكْفَأَ

To deviate or turn aside in a journey from the intended objective.

The usage concerns departure from the course or object originally intended.

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أَكْفَأَ الإِبِلَ كَفْأَتَيْنِ

To divide livestock into two alternating groups for breeding, leaving each group for a different year.

The evidence describes camels and extends the same practice to sheep and similar animals.

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أَكْفَأَهُ إِبِلَهُ وَغَنَمَهُ

To assign someone the produce of one's camels and sheep or goats for a year.

The produce includes hair or wool, milk, and young animals.

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أَكْفَأَتِ الإِبِلُ

Of camels, to have many young ones in their wombs.

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كِفَاءٌ

A rear covering or curtain of a tent, extending downward or attached to its hinder part.

The related verb may mean to make or provide a tent with this covering.

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الإِكْفَاءُ

In poetry, variation or impairment in the rhyme ending, such as using differing rhyme letters, vowels, or final inflections.

The sources record several explanations of the precise type of rhyme variation; the common lexical idea is impairment or inconsistency at the rhyme ending.

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تَكفَّأَ

To incline forward or sway from side to side while moving, like a ship in its course.

The construction is used of a person's gait, a woman's movement, or a ship; these examples do not impose a gender restriction.

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تَكَافَأَ

For two parties to be alike or equal to one another.

A reciprocal Form VI construction.

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تَتَكَافَأُ دِمَاؤُهُمْ

For blood claims to be subject to equal retaliation or expiation.

In the reported legal expression, noble and non-noble persons receive no advantage over one another in retaliation or expiation of blood.

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انْكَفَأَ

To turn or be turned away or back; to return, go back, or revert.

The Form VII verb may be used of returning from something previously desired or pursued.

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انْكَفَأَ

Of a party, to become routed, defeated, or put to flight.

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اكْتَفَأَ

To carry off people's families and goods.

A Form VIII usage attested in a reported expression.

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اسْتَكْفَأَ

To ask someone for a year's produce from his camels or a palm-tree.

For livestock, the requested produce may include unborn or young animals, hair or wool, and milk.

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كَفْأَةٌ / كُفْأَةٌ

A year's produce, especially the young, hair or wool, and milk of livestock, or the annual produce of a palm-tree or piece of land.

The evidence includes both livestock produce and agricultural yield; the terms may also refer to a year's crop after a period without conception.

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كَفَاءٌ / مُكَافِئٌ

Likeness, equality, or being a match for another person or thing.

Used of a person or thing that is like, equal to, or comparable with another; this broader Classical usage is distinct from the specifically Quranic occurrence.

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كِفَاءٌ

An amount equal to another amount, or as much as is equivalent to what is due.

Used in expressions of equivalence in measure or due proportion.

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أَكْفَأُ

Of a camel, having a hump that inclines slightly to one side.

The corresponding adjective has masculine and feminine forms in the evidence.

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كَفِيءٌ

The bottom, interior, or inside of a valley.

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كَفَاءَةٌ

Equality or suitability between husband and wife in social rank, religion, lineage, household, or comparable considerations.

A specialized conventional use concerning marital compatibility.

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مُكْفِئُ الظَّعْنِ

The last of the days known as the Days of Old Age.

A fixed calendrical expression.

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مُكَافِئٌ

In a reported expression, one recognized as sincere in professing Islam, or one who keeps within the proper bounds of the religion.

The evidence records differing interpretations of this particular hadith expression rather than a general restriction on the ordinary meaning of مُكَافِئ.

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مُكَافِئَتَانِ

Of two sheep or goats, equal in age or otherwise alike.

In the reported sacrificial expression, the phrase is also interpreted as animals slaughtered successively or opposite one another.

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