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ك ي ف

Overview

Computed
Occurrences
83
Distinct forms
3

Meaning

Morphology · Lane's Lexicon · CC BY-SA 3.0

From Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon (1863–1893), under the root كيف. Digitised by the Perseus Project (Tufts); Arabic decoded from Perseus's transliteration.

كَيَّفْتُهُ فَتَكَيَّفَ , used by the Muslim theologians, (K, TA,) verbs derived from كَيْفَ , (TA,) [signifying I specified by the ascription of its quality and it became so specified,] are formed in accordance with analogy, not heard from the Arabs. (K, * TA.)

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تَكَيَّفَ : see what next precedes.

كَيْفِيَّةٌ Quality as answering to “ how? ”; mode, or manner, of being.

كَيْفُوفِيَّةٌ for كَيْفِيَّةٌ : see تَيْسِيَّةٌ .

Derived forms · 3

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Distribution across surahs

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Connected roots

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The roots that most often share a verse with ك ي ف. Window: the verse. Measure: the number of distinct verses in which both roots occur (of the 83 this root appears in). Ubiquitous roots are excluded so genuinely connected concepts surface — see the method.

Occurrences · 83 verses

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

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Joseph 12:109Quranic text

وَمَآأَرْسَلْنَامِنقَبْلِكَإِلَّارِجَالًانُّوحِىٓإِلَيْهِممِّنْأَهْلِٱلْقُرَىٰٓأَفَلَمْيَسِيرُوا۟فِىٱلْأَرْضِفَيَنظُرُوا۟كَيْفَكَانَعَٰقِبَةُٱلَّذِينَمِنقَبْلِهِمْوَلَدَارُٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِخَيْرٌلِّلَّذِينَٱتَّقَوْا۟أَفَلَاتَعْقِلُونَ

Reference 12:109

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