قفل

Arabic

Etymology

From the root ق ف ل (q-f-l).

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Verb

قَفَلَ (qafala) I, non-past يَقْفِلُ or يَقْفُلُ‎ (yaqfilu or yaqfulu)

  1. to return from a journey
  2. to carry on a usurious grain trade

Conjugation

Verb

قَفَلَ (qafala) I, non-past يَقْفِلُ‎ (yaqfilu)

  1. (transitive) to close
  2. (transitive) to lock, lock up
  3. to collect, to gather

Conjugation

Verb

قَفَلَ • (qafala) I, non-past يَقْفُلُ‎ (yaqfulu)


قَفِلَ • (qafila) I, non-past يَقْفَلُ‎ (yaqfalu)


  1. to dry up, wither

Conjugation

Noun

قَفْل (qafl) m

  1. verbal noun of قَفَلَ (qafala, to close, lock, gather, dry up) (form I)
  2. verbal noun of قَفِلَ (qafila, to dry up) (form I)

Declension

Noun

قُفْل (qufl) m (plural أَقْفَال (ʾaqfāl) or أَقْفُل (ʾaqful) or قُفُول (qufūl))

  1. lock, bolt
  2. flag, banner
  3. skein

Declension

References

  • Farid, Malik Ghulam (2006), قفل”, in Dictionary of the Holy Qurʾan, Tilford, Surrey: Islam International Publications Ltd., →ISBN
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 16
  • Freytag, Georg (1835), قفل”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 481
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), قفل”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen
  • Wehr, Hans (1979), قفل”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 915
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), قفل”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1047

Egyptian Arabic

Verb

قفل (qafal) , يقبل (yiqfil)

  1. to close

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قُفْل (qufl).

Noun

قفل (qofl)

  1. lock
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