ك alphabetical letter ك
كَ
prefixed to a noun is called كَافُ التَّشْبِيهِ
The ك of comparison. Respecting its being prefixed to pronouns, see أَنْ, suprà, p. 106.
b2: إِجْعَلْ
هٰذَا الشَّىْءَ كَأْسًا وَاحِدًا
Make thou this thing to be [uniform, or] of one way, or mode, or manner. (
ISk, in
TA, art. بأج.)
b3: كَذٰلِكَ The like thereof; such like; and simply such; and so.
b4: كَإٍ and كآءٍ: see كَأَىٍّ or كَأَيِّنْ
voce أَىٌّ.
b5: كَمَا followed by a
pret. often means Like as when: see an
ex. in a verse cited above, p. 740.
b6: كَمَا is often followed by a
pret. in the sense of an
aor. : see exs. in
EM., pp. 41 & 214.
b7: كَمَا أَنْتَ وَزِيْدًا [Keep as, or where, thou art, and approach not Zeyd! like مَكَانَكَ وَزَيْدًا]. Heard
b8: كَمَاأَنْتَنِى Wait for me where thou art! Heard by
Az from certain of the Benoo-Suleym. (
L, art. عند.)
b9: ك of allocution is varied like the pronominal affix of the sec.
Pers\.,
accord. to the sex and number of the persons addressed: see exs. in the
Kur, iii.
42 and xix. 21 (Flügel's ed., and Lees' Keshsháf), xii. 37, ii. 46, &c., and xii. 32. But sometimes the same form is used in addressing a number of persons as in addressing one man: see, for
ex.,
Kur, iv. 96.
