كفل

كَفَالَةٌ ذ Responsibility; answerableness; amenability; or suretiship; (S, Mgh, Msb, K;) the conjoining of one responsibility (ذِمَّة) to another, [i. e., the conjoining one's own responsibility to that of another person, ] with respect to the right of suit, [ so that one person becomes liable to be sued for that which another owes ]; (Mgh;) i. q. ضَمَانٌ. (S, &c.)