كفت
1 كَفَتَ, [
aor. ـِ
inf. n. كَفْتٌ, It (a thing) turned over, lit, back for belly: (
K:) or, as in a copy of the
L, he turned a thing over, back for belly. (
TA.)
b2: كَفَتَهُ, (
K,) or كَفَتَهُ عَنْ وَجْهِهِ, (
S,)
aor. ـِ (
K,)
inf. n. كَفْتٌ; and ↓ كفّته; (
TA;) He turned him away, averted him, or diverted him, from his course, or design. (
S,
K.) (You say) كَفَتَهُ عَنْ حَاجَتِهِ He withheld him, restrained him, or debarred him, from the thing that he wanted. (
As.)
b3: اللّٰهُ ↓ كفّتهُ God took him;
syn. قَبَضَهُ: meaning he died: and so كفتة اللّٰه اليه. (
TA.)
A2: كَفَتٌ, [
aor. ـِ (
S,
K)
inf. n. كَفْتٌ and كِفَاتٌ and كَفِيتٌ and كَفَتَانٌ, (
K,) He, or it, hastened, or was quick, or swift: (
S:) it (a bird &c.) hastened, or was quick, or swift, in flying, and running, and contracted itself therein: (
K:) it (a solid-hoofed animal) contracted its fore-legs quickly in running: (
Az:) the kind of running and flying termed كَفَتَانٌ is like a turning aside, or starting aside, (حَيَدَانٌ) with violence, or vehemence. (
TA.)
A3: كَفَتَهُ, [
aor. ـِ
inf. n. كَفْتٌ, He drove him, or urged him on, vehemently. (
S.)
b2: كَفَتَ الشَّىْءَ إِلَيْهِ, (aor.
كَفِتَ,
inf. n. كَفْتٌ,
S,); and ↓ كفّته; (but the latter has an intensive signification;
S;) He drew the thing together to himself, (
S,
K,) and contracted it, grasped it, or took it. (
K.) [See an
ex. of the latter verb in a verse cited
voce رَاجِلَةٌ.]
b3: إِكْفِتُوا صِبْيَانَكُمْ بِاللَّيْلِ (
S) Draw together your boys, and confine them in the houses, or tents, at night. (A 'Obeyd.) Said by Mohammad.
b4: نُهِينَا أَنْ نَكْفِتَ الثِّيَابَ فِى الصَّلَاةِ We have been forbidden to draw together the clothes [that are upon us] in prayer: meaning, in the inclination of the body, and in prostration. (
TA, from a
trad.)
b5: كَفَتَ الدِّرْعَ بِالسَّيْفِ,
aor. ـِ and ↓ كفّتها; which latter has an intensive signification; He hung the coat of mail [i.e. the lower part of it] by means of, or upon, the sword [which he was wearing], and then drew it together to him. Zuheyr says, describing a coat of mail, of which the wearer had hung upon the sword the redundant lower portions, and drawn it together to him, وَ مُفَاضَةٍ كَالنَّهْىِ تَنْسِجُهُ الصَّبَا بَيْضَاءَ كَفَّتَ فَضْلَهَا بِمُهَنَّدِ [And an ample coat of mail, like the pool which the east wind ripples in transverse directions; white; the redundant lower parts of which he had hung upon the sword of Indian steel, and which he had then drawn together to him.] (
TA.) 2 كَفَّتَ see 1, in two places.
3 كافتهُ He contended with him in running, or in a race. (
K.)
A2: مَاتَ كِفَاتًا, and مُكَافَتَةً, He died suddenly. (
K.) 7 انكفت He turned away, or became averted, or diverted, [عَنْ وَجْهِهِ from his course, or design]. (
K.)
b2: He returned [عن وجهه from his course, or design; and] إِلَى مَنْزِلِهِ to his abode. (
TA.)
A2: He, or it, became contracted; (
K;) and so ↓ استكفت. (
TA in art. سكف.)
b2: It (a garment) was drawn up, or tucked up, and contracted. (
TA.)
b3: He was compact in make. (
K,
TA.)
b4: He (a horse) was lean, lank, slender, light of flesh, or lank in the belly. (
K.)
A3: انكفت لَوْنُهُ His, or its, colour changed. (
TA, art. كفأ.) 8 اكتفت المَالَ He took the whole of the property, (
K,) and drew it together to himself. (
TA.) 10 إِسْتَكْفَتَ see 7.
كَفْتٌ and ↓ كَفِيتٌ (and ↓ كَفِتٌ,
Ks) A man quick or swift, (
S,
K,) and light, active, or agile, and slender: (
K:) so too a horse. (
TA.)
b2: ↓ عَدْوٌ كَفِيتٌ, and ↓ كِفَاتٌ, [the latter originally an
inf. n.] A quick, or swift, running: and so a passing by, or through. (
L.)
b3: [Hence]
كَفْتٌ (
tropical:) Death. (
K.)
A2: خُبْزٌ كَفْتٌ Bread without seasoning; without savoury food. (
K.)
A3: See also كِفْتٌ.
كِفْتٌ (
S,
Z,
K, &c.) and ↓ كَفْتٌ (
Fr.
K) and ↓ كَفِتٌ (
Z) A small cooking-pot. (
S,
K, &c.) It is said, in a proverb, كِفْتٌ إِلَى وَئِيَّةٍ [A small cooking-pot (put) next to a large one]: i.e. a calamity next to which is another calamity. (
S,
TA.) Applied to him who oppresses a man, and compels him to do that which is disagreeable to him, and then adds to his oppression of him. (A 'Obeyd.) [See also Freytag, Arab.
Prov. ii.
349.]
A2: See كَفِيتٌ.
كَفِتٌ: see كَفْتٌ and كِفْتٌ.
فَرَسٌ كُفَتٌ, and كُفَتَةٌ, A horse that leaps, springs, or bounds, with his whole body and limbs, and so that one cannot get possession of him, or obtain the mastery over him. (
K.) See also art. كلت.
كفت [written without the syll. points] A certain herb. (See كَفُّ الكَلْبِ, in art. كلب.) كِفَاتٌ A place in which a thing is drawn together, or comprehended, (
S,
K,) and collected, or congregated. (
K.) So in the words of the
Kur [lxxvii. 25 and 26,] أَلَمْ نَجْعَلِ الْأَرْضَ كِفَاتًا
أَحْيَاءً وَأَمْوَاتًا [Have we not made the earth a place which comprehends the living and the dead? meaning كِفَاتَ أَحْيَاءٍ وَأَمْوَاتٍ:] (
S:) EshShaabee, pointing to the houses of El-Koofeh, said, هٰذِهِ كِفَاتُ الأَحْيَاءش; and then, turning to its tombs, he said, هٰدهِ كِفَاتُ الأَمْوَاتِ; meaning to explain the above text of the
Kur: but
ISd thinks, that كفاتا in this text is an
inf. n., and that احياء and امواتا are governed by it in the acc. case. (
TA.) كَفِيتٌ: see كَفْتٌ.
b2: One who contends with another in running, or in a race. (
TA.) كَفِيتٌ, as used in the following
trad., in which Mohammad says, حُبِّبِ إِلَىَّ النِّسَاءُ وَالطِّيبُ وَرُزِقْتُ الكَفِيتَ [Women and perfumes have been made objects of love, or pleasant, to me; and I have been supplied with, or have received, &c.], signifies Food by which the body is sustained; or, sufficient to sustain life: or what sustains life: (
TA:) or that by which food necessary for the support of life is drawn, or collected, together, (
K,) and properly prepared for use: (
TA:) [or the means of acquiring subsistence, &c.:] or coition; [meaning power for coition;] so
accord. to El-Hasan: or strength for coition: or certain food that was sent down to Mohammad from heaven, of which he ate, and whereby he received strength for coition: he is related to have said, that Gabriel came to him with a cooking-pot called الكَفِيتُ, from which he derived the strength of forty men in coition: but
Sgh says, in the
TS, that the descent of the cookingpot from heaven is not accepted as true by the authors on the traditions. (
TA.)
b3: See كِفْتٌ.
A2: كَفِيتٌ A traveller's provision-bag that does not lose [or suffer to escape] anything (
K) of what is put into it: you say جِرَابٌ كفيتٌ: (
TA:) as also ↓ كِفْتٌ. (
K.) الكَفَّاتُ The lion. (
TS,
K.) مُكْفِتٌ One who wears two coats of mail with a garment between them: (
K:) or who wears a long coat of mail, and draws together its skirt by means of hooks, or the like, to loops in its middle part, to disencumber himself of the lower part. (
T.)
