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ك-ل-ف

The Arabic root ك-ل-ف (k-l-f)

Form I verb كَلِفَ: to spend zeal

12 words in the dictionary are built from ك-ل-ف, including verbs in Forms I, II, IV, V. Each verb is listed with the nouns that come from it: its verbal noun (masdar), its participles, and words derived from it.

Most common

Verb · Form II
to impose
Noun
تَكْلِفَة
cost
Adjective
مُكَلَّف
in charge
Verb · Form I
كَلِفَ
to spend zeal
Adjective
كَلِف
amorously attracted
Noun
كُلْفَة
expense
Verb · Form IV
أَكْلَفَ
to cause one to take pains
Verb · Form V
تَكَلَّفَ
to take on

Verbs and the nouns that come from them

كَلِفَ · present يَكْلَفُ
Form I · The plain action

to spend zeal, pains and costs, to be eager (on a thing); to be or fall in love, to like (بِ (bi) something), to be very attached (بِ (bi) to); to get melasmata, to get irregular brown-reddish spots (of the face)

كَلَف
Verbal noun
pains and care taken
كَلِف
Active participle
amorously attracted
مَكْلُوف
Passive participle
كَلَّفَ · present يُكَلِّفُ
Form II · Causative or intensive

to entrust ([transitive] someone [transitive or بِ (bi)] with something), to impose (a matter on someone); to assign (someone a task); to molest, to make difficulties for, to trouble

تَكْلِفَة
Verbal noun
cost
تَكْلِيف
Verbal noun
commission
مُكَلِّف
Active participle
مُكَلَّف
Passive participle
in charge
أَكْلَفَ · present يُكْلِفُ
Form IV · Causative

to cause one to take pains, inspire zeal or eagerness in

إِكْلَاف
Verbal noun
مُكْلِف
Active participle
مُكْلَف
Passive participle
تَكَلَّفَ · present يَتَكَلَّفُ
Form V · Reflexive of Form II

to take on (a duty, responsibility, task, etc.); to feign, to pretend to do (something); to force oneself to do (something)

تَكَلُّف
Verbal noun
pretense
مُتَكَلِّف
Active participle
مُتَكَلَّف
Passive participle

Other nouns and adjectives

كُلْفَة
Noun
expense
أَكْلَف
Adjective
freckled

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