كفن

See also: کفن

Arabic

Root
ك ف ن (k-f-n)

Verb

كَفَنَ • (kafana) I, non-past يَكْفِنُ‎ (yakfinu)

  1. to cover with a winding sheet, to shroud, dress for the grave (the deceased)

Conjugation

Verb

كَفَّنَ • (kaffana) II, non-past يُكَفِّنُ‎ (yukaffinu)

  1. to wrap

Conjugation

Noun

كَفَن • (kafan) m (plural أَكْفَان (ʔakfān))

  1. shroud, winding sheet, wrapping of a dead

Declension

Descendants

References

  • Баранов, Х. К. (2011) “كفن”, in Большой арабско-русский словарь (Bolʹšoj arabsko-russkij slovarʹ), 11th edition, Москва: Живой язык, →ISBN
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “كفن”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “كفن”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic كَفَن (kafan, “shroud, winding cloth”), verbal noun of كَفَنَ (kafana, “to cover with a shroud”).

Noun

كفن • (kefen, kefin) (definite accusative كفنی (kefeni, kefini), plural اكفان (ekfân))

  1. shroud, winding cloth, any cloth in which a corpse is wrapped for burial

Derived terms

  • كفن صارمق (kefen sarmak, “to wind a shroud”)
  • كفنجی (kefenci, “maker or seller of shrouds”)
  • كفندزد (kefendüzd, “stealer of shrouds”)
  • كفنلمك (kefenlemek, “to shroud, wrap”)
  • كفنلی (kefenli, “wound in a shroud”)

Descendants

Further reading

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