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Arabic dictionary

Dictionary Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane (d. 1876)

Entry كيف

2 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.) 5 تَكَيَّفَ : see what next precedes. كَيْفِيَّةٌ Quality as answering to “ how? ”; mode, or manner, of being. كَيْفُوفِيَّةٌ for كَيْفِيَّةٌ: see تَيْسِيَّةٌ.