restrain, prevent

, [aor. ,] 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. , (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. , (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. ,] inf. n. كَفْتٌ, He drove him, or urged him on, vehemently. (S.) ― -b2- كَفَتَ الشَّىْءَ إِلَيْهِ, (aor. , 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. ; 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 كَٱلنَّهْىِ 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.)

see 1, in two places.

He contended with him in running, or in a race. (K.) -A2- مَاتَ كِفَاتًا, and مُكَافَتَةً, He died suddenly. (K.)

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.)

He took the whole of the property, (K,) and drew it together to himself. (TA.)

see 7.

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.

(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 وَيأِيَّةٍ [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.

: see كَفْتٌ and كِفْتٌ.

, 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.

[written without the syll. points] A certain herb. (See كَفُّ الكَلْبِ, in art. كلب.)

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 ٱلْأَرْضَ 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.)