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كَلَّفَ نَفْسَهُ شَيْيءًا He tasked himself with a thing, as also ↓ تَكَلَّفَ شَييءًا . ― -b2- كَلَّفَهُ أَمْرًا He tasked him to do a thing; imposed upon him the task of doing a thing. ― -b3- So تَكْلِيفٌ The imposition of a task or duty. ― -b4- A task; compulsory work; a duty imposed. ― -b5- كَلَّفَهُ الأَمْرَ He imposed upon him the thing, or affair; syn. حَمَّلَهُ اـِيَّاهُ . (Msb.) ― -b6- كَلَّفَ نَفْسَهُ He put himself to trouble or inconvenience; like ↓ تَكَلَّفَ alone. ― -b7- كَلَّفَهُ كَذَا He imposed upon him the task of doing, or procuring, or bringing, such a thing. ― -b8- كَلَّفَهُ أَمْرًا He imposed upon him a thing, or an affair, in spite of difficulty, trouble, or inconvenience: (Msb:) he ordered him to do a thing that was difficult, troublesome, or inconvenient, to him: (S, K:) he made, required, or constrained, him to do a thing; exacted of him the doing a thing; meaning, a thing that was difficult, troublesome, or inconvenient to him: (Kull, 123; and the Lexicons, passim.) See جَتَّمَهُ . ― -b9- تَكْلِيفٌ An imposition; a requisition: con straint, &c.

تَكَلَّفَ أَمْرًا He [undertook a thing, or an affair, as imposed upon him: or] took, or imposed, upon himself, or undertook, a thing, or an affair, [as a task, or] in spite of difficulty, trouble, or inconvenience; (Msb;) syn. تَجَتَّمَهُ : (S, K:) he constrained, or tasked, or exerted, himself, or took pains, or made an effort, to do a thing; meaning, a thing that was difficult, troublesome, or inconvenient, to him: or he affected, as a self-imposed task, the doing of a thing. (The Lexicons, passim: see تغزّل : and see كَلَّفَهُ أَمْرًا .) ― -b2- تكلّف صِفَةً He affected, or endeavoured to acquire, a quality. So in the explanations of verbs of the measure تَفَعَّلَ ; as نَحَلَّمَ . (Sharh El-'Izzee, by Saad-ed-Keen.) ― -b3- Also, He affected, or pretended to have, a quality, not having it. So in the explanations of verbs of the measure تَفَاعَلَ , as تَجَاهَلَ : (idem:) [and sometimes in verbs of the measure تَفَعَّلَ also, as تَكَسَّرَ &c.]. And تَكَلَّفَ alone, He exercised self-constraint, or put himself to trouble or inconvenience. ― -b4- تَكَلَّفَ He affected what was not natural to him. ― -b5- تَكَلَّفَ He used forced efforts to do a thing, and to appear to have a quality. He affected, or endeavoured to do or acquire, &c.; he constrained himself to do, &c.; he applied himself, as to a task, to do a thing. تكلّف الشَّجَاعَةَ He made himself, or constrained himself to be, courageous; affected, or endeavoured to acquire, or characterize himself by, courage. ― -b6- تكلّف الشَّجَاعَةَ also, He acted, or behaved, with forced courage; endeavoured to be courageous. ― -b7- تكلّف فِى عَرَبِيَّتِهِ He used a forced, or affected, manner in his Arabic speech. ― -b8- تَكَلُّفٌ A straining of a point in lexicology. ― -b9- تَعَقَّلَ signifies He affected or endeavoured to acquire, intelligence; explained by تكلّف العَقْلَ : and تَعَاقَلَ , he pretended to be intelligent, not being really so. (S, art. عقل .) تَكَلُّفٌ in a verb of the measure تَفَعَّلَ is as above explained, signifying a desire for the existence of an attribute in one's self: in a verb of the measure تَفَاعَلَ it is different, and means the pretending to be or to do something which in reality one is not or does not; as in the instance of تَجَاهَلَ , he pretended to be ignorant, not being so in reality. (Sharh El-'Izzee, by Saad-ed-Deen.) تَكَلَّفَ كَذَا He did so purposely. ― -b10- تَكَلَّفَ He tasked himself. ― -b11- تَكَلَّفَ القَىْءَ He vomited intentionally. (TA, art. قىء .)

كَلَفٌ [A discolouration of the face, by] a thing that comes upon the face resembling sesame; [by freckles, accord. to present usage:] and a dingy redness that comes upon the face. (S, K.)

كُلْفَةٌ A difficulty, or difficult affair, or a duty, or an obligation, that one imposes upon himself; (S, K;) or a thing imposed upon one as difficult, troublesome, or inconvenient. (Msb.) See حَبٌّ . ― -b2- [Constraint,] trouble, pain, or inconvenience. (MA.)