[1]
كَفَتَ , [aor.
كَفِتَ ,] 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.) ―
2-b2-
كَفَتَهُ, (K,) or
كَفَتَهُ عَنْ وَجْهِهِ,
(S,) aor.
كَفِتَ , (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.) ―
2-b3-
كفّتهُ ↓
اللّٰهُ God took
him; syn.
قَبَضَهُ: meaning he died: and so
كفتة اللّٰه اليه. (TA.) ＝
1-A2-
كَفَتٌ, [aor.
كَفِتَ , (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.) ＝
1-A3-
كَفَتَهُ,
[aor.
كَفِتَ ,] inf. n.
كَفْتٌ,
He drove him, or
urged
him on, vehemently. (S.) ―
2-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.] ―
2-b3-
إِكْفِتُوا صِبْيَانَكُمْ بِاللَّيْلِ (S)
Draw
together your boys, and confine them in the houses,
or
tents, at night. (A 'Obeyd.) Said by Mohammad. ―
2-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.) ―
2-b5-
كَفَتَ الدِّرْعَ بِالسَّيْفِ, aor.
كَفِتَ ;
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.)