كَفَحَهُ

, (S, K,) verbal noun كَفْحٌ; (S;) and ↓ كَافَحَهُ, verbal noun مُكَافَحَةٌ and كِفَاحٌ; (K;) [the latter form of the verb the more common;] He faced him; confronted him; encountered him; met him face to face: (S, K, TA:) or he met him, or encountered him, face to face, suddenly, or unexpectedly. (T, M.) [You say] لَقِيتُهُ ↓ كِفَاحًا, (S,) and ↓ مُكَافَحَةً, and كَفْحًا, (TA.) I met him face to face. (TA.) [And] كَلَّمَهُ اللّٰهُ ↓ كِفَاحًا God spoke to him face to face, without anything intervening between them. (TA from a tradition)

كَفَحَهَا, (K,) aorist كَفَحَ ; (S;) and ↓ كَافَحَهَا, verbal noun as above; (K;) He kissed her suddenly, unexpectedly, or unawares: (K:) or he met her face to face, or encountered her, with a kiss: (S:) or he kissed her with full ability, and completely, without snatching the kiss: (T:) or he made his skin to meet, and come in contact with hers. (A 'Obeyd.)

↓ كَافَحُوا (in war) signifies They contended together with swords face to face: (L:) or ↓ كَافَحُوهُمْ, they encountered them in war face to face, having before their faces neither shield nor anything else. (As, S.)

Also عَنْهُ ↓ كافح He contended for him, and defended him. (L.)

السَّمُومَ ↓ كَافَحْتُ (tropical:) [I faced, or encountered, the hot wind called سَمُوم]. (A.)

بِمَا سَاءَهُ ↓ كافحهُ (tropical:) [He encountered him with that which displeased or vexed him]. (A.)

↓ كافحهُ, verbal noun مُكَافَحَةٌ, (tropical:) He refelled him by an argument, a plea, a proof, or an evidence: as though the argument &c. were likened to a sword, or other weapon. (MF.)

-A2- كَفَحَ لِجَامَ الدَّابَّةِ, (verbal noun كَفْحٌ, TA,) He drew, or pulled, the bridle and bit of the beast of carriage; as also ↓ أَكْفَحَهُ: (K:) or, as in the T and M, كَفَحَ الدَّابَّةَ بِالِلّجَامِ he pulled the beast of carriage by the bridle and bit. (TA.) [See also 4.]