Lane's Lexicon (Edward Lane, 1863)

كُعْدُبَةٌ ذ Bubbles that float upon the surface of water; (K;) resulting from rain: (TA:) a bubble floating upon the surface of water &c. (TA): or a spider's web: (AA:) ― -b2- Also, Stones. (TA.) ― -b3- All these significations are also assigned to جُعْدُبَةٌ. (TA, art. جعدب, q. v.)

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Q. 1 كَعْسَبَ ذ He ran (K) vehemently: like كَعْظَلَ: (TA:) and fled: (K:) like كَعْسَمَ: (TA:) or he ran slowly: or he walked quickly: or he walked in the manner of a drunken man. (K.)

كُعْكُبٌ ذ &c.: see art. كعب.

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كَعْنَبٌ ذ Short: (K:) an epithet applied to a man. (Az.) -A2- الكَعْنَبُ and الكُعَانِبُ The lion. (K.) -A3- كَعَانِبُ Knobs, or protuberances, (عُجَرٌ,) of the head. (K.) كَعْنَبٌ A man having knobs, or protuberances, (عُجَرٌ,) on his head. (K.)

تَيْسٌ مُكَعْنَبُ القَرْنِ ذ A he-goat having the horn curved so as to resemble a ring: (K:) like مُشَعْنَب, q. v. (TA.)

كَاغَدٌ ذ , (Msb, K,) and كَاغِدٌ, (L, TA,) Paper; syn. قِرْطَاسٌ [which seems to be properly paper made of the papyrus ]: (K:) a Persian word, (L,) arabicized. (L, K.) The د is sometimes changed into ذ, (Msb, TA,) and into ط. (TA.)

[ كَاغَِدِىٌّ ذ A maker, or seller, of paper. ]

كَاغَذٌ ذ i. q. كَاغَدٌ. (L, K.)

1 كَفَأَ ذ He turned a thing over; as a man turns over a cake of bread in his band until it becomes even. ↓ يَتَكَفَّأُ occurs in a trad. respecting the Day of Resurrection, accord. to one relation, for يَكْفَأُ, in this sense: it is said that the earth will be like a single cake of bread, which God will turn over in his hand, as a man in a journey turns over a cake of bread. (TA.) كَفَأَ, (Ks, S, K,) inf. n. كَفٌءٌ and كَفَاآءَةٌ; (TA;) and ↓ اكفأ, (IAar, S, K,) and ↓ اكتفأ; (S, K;) but the first word is said to be the most chaste; He inverted, or turned upside-down, (S, K,) a vessel &c. (S, TA.) [You say] كُفِئَتْ جَفْنَتُهُ [ His bowl was turned upside-down; meaning] (tropical:) He was slain: a phrase similar to هُرِيقَ رِفْدُهُ. (A in art. رفد.) ― -b2- كَفَأَ (TA) and ↓ اكفأ, (Ks, and rejected by As, (TA,) He inclined, or made to turn aside or incline, (S, K,) a bow, in shooting with it, and a vessel, (Ks, S,) &c. (TA.) And كَفَأَ (TA) and ↓ اكفأ, (K,) and ↓ انكفأ (TA) He, or it, inclined: intrans. (K, TA.) ― -b3- كَفَأَهُ عَنْ شَىْ, (S, * K, * TA,) inf. n. كَفْءٌ, (S, TA,) He turned him away, or back from a thing; (S, K, TA;) as from a thing that he desired to do, to another thing. (S, TA.) And كَفَأَ عَنْ شَىْءٍ He turned away, or back, from a thing: intrans. (TA.) [See also 4 and 7.] كَفَأَ القَوُمُ The people turned away, or back. (K.) [See also 7.] ― -b4- كَفَأَ He drove away a man, (K,) or camels. (L.) ― -b5- كَفَأَ الاـِبِلَ He made an assault upon the camels, and took them away. (TA.) ― -b6- كَفَأَ He followed, or pursued, another. (K.) ― -b7- كَفَأَ الغَنَمُ فِى الشِّعْبِ The sheep entered the ravine. (K.) ― -b8- كَفَأَ لَوْنُهُ, and لونه ↓ اكفأ, and لونه ↓ تكفّأ, (TA,) and لوزه ↓ انكفأ, (K,) (as also انكفت لونه, TA,) (tropical:) His, or its, colour changed. (K.)

3 كافأهُ عَلَى شَىْءِ ذ , inf. n. مُكَافَأَةُ and كِفَأءٌ, He requited, compensated, or recompensed, him for a thing. (S, K.) ― -b2- مَا لِى بِهِ قِبَلٌ وَلَا كِفَاآءٌ I have not power to requite him. (S.) ― -b3- كافأه, (K,) inf. n. مُكَافَأَةٌ and كِفَاآءٌ, (TA,) He was like him; was equal to him; equalled him. (K.) -A2- كافأه He watched him; observed him. (K.) -A3- كافأ, (K,) inf. n. مُكَافَأَةٌ, (TA,) He repelled; turned, or put away; kept away, or off; withstood, or resisted. (K, TA.) ― -b2- كافأ بَيْنَ فَارِسَيْنِ بِرُمْحِهِ He thrust this horseman, and then that, with his spear. (K, TA.) ― -b3- كافأ بين البَعِيرَيْنِ He stabbed this camel, and then that. (Z.) -A4- لَا مُكَافَأَةَ عِنْدِى فِى كَذَا There is no concealment with me in respect of such a thing; as also لا مُحَاجَاةَ. (TA in art. حجو.)

4 أَكْفَاَ See 1, in four places. ― -b2- اكفأ فِى سَيْرِهِ عَنِ القَصْدِ, (TA,) or كَفَأَ, (K,) He deviated, or turned aside, in his journey, from the object he had in view. (K, * TA.) -A2- اكفأ الاـِبِلَ كَفْأَتَيْنِ He divided the camels into two equal numbers, setting apart the one half for breeding during one year, and the other half for breeding during the next. It was esteemed the best plan, by the Arabs, to leave a she-camel for one year after her breeding, without suffering the stallion to cover her; in like manner as land is left fallow for a year. (S, TA.) ― -b2- The same is also said of sheep &c. (TA.) -A3- اكفأه اـِبِلَهُ وَغَنَمَهُ (S, * K, * TA) He assigned to him the profits, (K,) or the profits for a year, (S,) of his camels and his sheep or goats; (K, TA;) i.e., their hair and wool, milk, and young ones. (S, TA.) -A4- اكفأت الاـِبِلُ Many of the camels had young ones in their wombs. (K.) -A5- اكفأ البَيْتَ, (K,) inf. n. اـِكْفَاآءٌ, (S,) He made for the tent a كِفَاآء. (S, K, TA.) -A6- اكفأ, (K,) inf. n. اـِكْفَاءٌ, (TA,) in poetry, accord. to a commentary on the Káfee, He used as the رَوِىّ two letters having their places of utterance near to each other; as ط with د: [such is the signification of the verb accord. to general usage in the present day:] or, accord. to the Ahkám el-Asás, he changed the روىّ from ر to ل, or ل to م: or he made a similar change of one letter to another having its place of utterance near to that of the former: or it has another signification, given below, accord. to the same authority: (TA:) or he used different letters in the rhymes; (S, K;) whether letters having their places of utterance near to each other, or the contrary; (TA;) or in some م and in some ن and in some د, and in some ط, and in some ح, and in some خ, &c.; as says AZ; and this is the meaning known to the Arabs: (S:) or he used different vowels in the روىّ: (Fr, S:) or i. q. أَقْوَى: (S, K:) or, accord. to the Ahkám el-Asás, it signifies either as explained above on that authority, (TA,) or he used different final inflections in the rhymes: (K:) or he changed the final vowel in the rhyme; ending one verse with ضَمَّة, and another with كَسْرَة, [which are the two vowels that resemble each other]: (TA:) [see a verse cited in the first paragraph of art. غيب:] or he impaired the end of a verse in any way. (K.) Eloquent Arabs explained the meaning of the verb in this last manner to Akh, without defining any particular kind of impairment: but one made it to consist in the use of different letters. (TA.)

5 تكفّأ ذ It (a vessel &c.) was inverted, or turned upside-down. (TA.) See also 1, in two places. ― -b2- تكفّأ (as also تكّفى, inf. n. تَكَفٍّ; but the original word is that with hemzeh;) He inclined forwards, in walking, as a ship inclines in her course. Mohammad is said to have walked in this manner, which is indicative of strength. (TA.) [And so] تكفّأت She (a woman) moved her body from side to side, in walking, as the tall palm-tree moves from side to side. (S.) [And] She (a ship) inclined forwards in her course. (TA.) [See an ex., voce أَعْرَبَ, in this sense; or, as implied in the S, in the sense immediately preceding.]

6 تَكَافَاآ ذ They two were like, or equal, each to the other. (S, K.) ― -b2- تَتَكَافَأُ دِمَاؤُهُمْ Their blood (i. e., the blood of the Muslims,) shall be equally retaliated, or expiated: (A 'Obeyd, S:) i. e., the noble shall have no advantage over the ignoble in the retaliation or expiation of blood. (A 'Obeyd.)

7 انكفأ ذ He turned, or was turned, away, or back, from a thing that he desired to do; (S;) [see also 1;] he returned, or went back, or reverted. (S, K.) ― -b2- Also, (TA,) or ↓ كَفَأَ, (K,) It (a party) became routed, defeated, or put to flight. (K, TA.) ― -b3- See 1, in two places.

8 اـِكْتَفَاَ See 1. ― -b2- اكتفأ أَهْلِيهِمْ وَأَمْوَالَهُمْ [ He carried off their families and their goods. ] (TA, from a trad.; mentioned next after the explanation of كَفَأَ الاـِبِلَ.)

10 استكفأه اـِبِلَهُ ذ He asked him for a year's produce of his camels; i.e., their young ones in the womb in one year; (S, TA;) or their hair and wool, milk, and young ones, of one year. (TA.) ― -b2- استكفأه نَخْلَةً He asked him for a year's produce of a palm-tree. (TA.)

كَفْءٌ ذ and كُفْءٌ and كِفْءٌ and كُفُؤٌ see كِفَاءٌ, and for كِفْءٌ see also كَفِىْءٌ.

كَفْأَةٌ ذ and ↓ كُفْأَةٌ (S, K) The young ones in the wombs of camels, in one year: or those after the dams have not conceived for one year or more: (K:) or a year's produce of camels [&c.]; i. e., their hair and wool, and their milk, as well as their young ones. (AZ, S, K.) You say أَعْطِنِى كفأةَ نَاقَتِكَ Give me the year's produce, &c., of thy she-camel. (S.) ― -b2- ― -b3- And, both words (tropical:) A year's produce of a palm-tree. (K.) ― -b4- (tropical:) A year's produce of a piece of land. (K.) See also 4.

كُفْأَةٌ ذ : see كَفْأَةٌ.

كَفَاآءٌ ذ (K) and ↓ كَفَأءَةٌ (S, K) Likeness; equality. (S, K.) ― -b2- كَفَأءٌ A slight inclination, to one side, of a camel's hump, and the like. This is the slightest of faults in a camel; for when the camel grows fat, his hump becomes erect. (TA.)

كَفَاآءٌ ذ , originally an inf. n. [of 3], and ↓ كُفْءٌ and كُفُوْءٌ [&c., as in the following examples,] Like; equal; a match. (S.) ― -b2- هٰذَا كِفَاؤُهُ, and ↓ كَفِيْئَتُهُ, and ↓ كَفِيؤُهُ, and ↓ كُفْؤُهُ, and ↓ كَفْؤُهُ, and ↓ كِفْؤُهُ, (in the CK, كَفُؤُهُ,) and ↓ كُفُوْؤُهُ, (in the CK, كُفُؤُهُ,) This is like, or equal to, him or it: (K:) And لَا كِفَاآءَ لَهُ There is no one, or nothing, like, or equal, to him, or it. (S.) ― -b3- Zj says, that the words of the Kur-án, وَلَمْ يَكُنْ لَهُ كُفُؤًا أَحَدٌ (cxii. 4,) may be read in four different ways: ↓ كُفُؤًا and ↓ كُفْئًا and ↓ كِفْئًا (in which three ways the word has been read) and كِفَاءً (in which last way it has not been read.) Ibn-Ketheer and AA and Ibn-'Ámir and Ks read كُفُؤًا: Hamzeh read كُفْئًا; and, in a case of pause, كُفَا, without hemzeh. (TA,) ― -b4- Pl. (of كُفْءٌ and كِفْءٌ, and كُفُؤٌ, and perhaps of كَفْءٌ also, MF,) أَكْفَاآءٌ and (of all the above forms excepting كِفَاآءٌ, MF,) كِفَاآءٌ. (K.) ― -b5- كِفَاآءٌ As much as is equal to another thing. (L.) ― -b6- الحَمْدُ لِلّهِ كِفَاآءَ الوَاجِبِ Praise be to God, as much as is incumbent. (K.) -A2- كِفَاآءٌ A curtain (سُتْرَة) extending from the top to the bottom of a tent, at the hinder part: or an oblong piece of staff at the hinder part of the kind of tent called خِبَاء: or a كِسَاآء that is thrown upon a خباء, so as to reach the ground: (K:) or an oblong piece of stuff, or two such pieces well sewed together, attached by the kind of wooden pin called خِلَال to the hinder part of a خباء: (S:) or the hinder part of a tent: pl. أَكْفِئَةٌ. (TA.) See مِظَلَّةٌ in art. ظل.

كَفِىْءُ اللَّوْنِ ذ , and اللون ↓ مَكْفُوْءُ, (K,) and اللون ↓ مَكْتَفِئُ, (TA,) (tropical:) Changed in colour: (K:) said of the countenance and of other things: as also مُكْتَفِتُ اللون. (TA.) ― -b2- Also, مُكْفَأُ الوَجْهِ Changed in countenance. (TA.) -A2- See كِفَاآءٌ. -A3- كَفِىْءٌ and ↓ كِفْءٌ (as in the CK and a MS. copy of the K) or كِفِىْءٌ (as in the TA) The bottom, or interior, or inside, (بَطْن,) of a valley. (K.)

كُفُوْءٌ ذ : see كِفَاآءٌ.

كَفَاآءَةٌ ذ : see كَفَاآءٌ. ― -b2- In marriage, Equality of the husband and wife in rank, religion, lineage house, &c. (L,)

أَكْفَأُ ذ , fem. كَفْأَى, A camel whose hump inclines slightly to one side. (TA.) ― -b2- A camel's hump inclining to one side. (ISh.)

مُكْفِئُ الظَّعْنِ ذ The last of the days called أَيَّامُ العَجُوزِ. (TA.) [See عجوز.]

مَكْفُوْءُ اللّون ذ : see كَفِىْءٌ.

مُكَافِئٌ ذ Being like, or equal to: equalling. (S.) ― -b2- Also, in the following words of a trad., كَانَ لَا يَقْبَلُ الثَّنَاآءَ اـِلَّا مِن مُّكَافِئِ, said to signify One of known sincerity in professing himself a Muslim: (IAmb:) or one not transgressing his proper bounds, nor falling short with respect to that [ religion ] to which God hath exalted him- (Az.) ― -b3- شَاتَانِ مُكَافِئَتَانِ, (S, K,) and مُكَافَأَتَانِ. (K,) as the relaters of trads. say, (S,) in a trad. respecting the عَقِيقَة for a male child, (S, TA,) Two sheep, or goats, of equal age. (S, K.) Some assign to these words meanings slightly differing from the above; as, similar, one to another: also, slaughtered, one immediately after the other: (TA:) or slaughtered, one opposite to the other. (S.)

مُكْتَفِئُ اللّون ذ : see كَفِىْءٌ.

1 كَفَتَ ذ , [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.) ― -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.) ― -b3- اللّٰهُ ↓ كفّتهُ God took him; syn. قَبَضَهُ: meaning he died: and so كفتة اللّٰه اليه. (TA.) -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.) -A3- كَفَتَهُ, [aor. كَفِتَ ,] inf. n. كَفْتٌ, He drove him, or urged him on, vehemently. (S.) ― -b2- كَفَتَ الشَّىْءَ اـِلَيْهِ, (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- اـِكْفِتُوا 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. 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 كَا@لنَّهْىِ 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 ذ He contended with him in running, or in a race. (K.) -A2- مَاتَ كِفَاتًا, and مُكَافَتَةً, He died suddenly. (K.)

7 انكفت ذ 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] اـِلَى 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 ذ He took the whole of the property, (K,) and drew it together to himself. (TA.)

10 اـِسْتَكْفَتَ see 7.

كَفْتٌ ذ 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 ذ (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 اـِلَى 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 ذ : see كَفْتٌ and كِفْتٌ.

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

كِفَاتٌ ذ 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 ا@لْأَرْضَ 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 ذ : 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 اـِلَىَّ 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 ذ The lion. (TS, K.)

مُكْفِتٌ ذ 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.)

1 كَفَحَهُ ذ , (S, K,) inf. n. كَفْحٌ; (S;) and ↓ كَافَحَهُ, inf. n. مُكَافَحَةٌ and كِفَاحٌ; (K;) [the latter form of the verb the more common;] He faced him; confronted him; encountered him; met him face to face: (S, K, TA:) or he met him, or encountered him, face to face, suddenly, or unexpectedly. (T, M.) [You say] لَقِيتُهُ ↓ كِفَاحًا, (S,) and ↓ مُكَافَحَةً, and كَفْحًا, (TA.) I met him face to face. (TA.) [And] كَلَّمَهُ ا@للّٰهُ ↓ كِفَاحًا God spoke to him face to face, without anything intervening between them. (TA from a trad.) ― -b2- كَفَحَهَا, (K,) aor. كَفَحَ ; (S;) and ↓ كَافَحَهَا, inf. n. as above; (K;) He kissed her suddenly, unexpectedly, or unawares: (K:) or he met her face to face, or encountered her, with a kiss: (S:) or he kissed her with full ability, and completely, without snatching the kiss: (T:) or he made his skin to meet, and come in contact with hers. (A 'Obeyd.) ― -b3- ↓ كَافَحُوا (in war) signifies They contended together with swords face to face: (L:) or ↓ كَافَحُوهُمْ, they encountered them in war face to face, having before their faces neither shield nor anything else. (As, S.) ― -b4- Also عَنْهُ ↓ كافح He contended for him, and defended him. (L.) ― -b5- السَّمُومَ ↓ كَافَحْتُ (tropical:) [ I faced, or encountered, the hot wind called سَمُوم]. (A.) ― -b6- بِمَا سَاآءَهُ ↓ كافحهُ (tropical:) [ He encountered him with that which displeased or vexed him ]. (A.) ― -b7- ↓ كافحهُ, inf. n. مُكَافَحَةٌ, (tropical:) He refelled him by an argument, a plea, a proof, or an evidence: as though the argument &c. were likened to a sword, or other weapon. (MF.) -A2- كَفَحَ لِجَامَ الدَّابَّةِ, (inf. n. كَفْحٌ, TA,) He drew, or pulled, the bridle and bit of the beast of carriage; as also ↓ أَكْفَحَهُ: (K:) or, as in the T and M, كَفَحَ الدَّابَّةَ بِالِلّجَامِ he pulled the beast of carriage by the bridle and bit. (TA.) [See also 4.]

3 كَاْفَحَ See 1, throughout. ― -b2- فُلَانٌ يُكَافِحُ الأُمُورَ (tropical:) Such a one superintends, manages, or conducts, affairs himself, or in his own person. (S, A.)

4 اكفح الدَّابَّةَ ذ , inf. n. اـِكْفَاحٌ, He put the bit to the mouth of the beast of carriage, striking the mouth with it, in order that the beast might take it into its mouth. (T, S.) ― -b2- See also 1.

5 تَكَفَّحَتِ السَّمَائِمُ ذ (tropical:) The hot winds called سمائم met, or encountered, one another. (L.)