كَفَتَ

, [aorist كَفِتَ ,] verbal noun كَفْتٌ, It (a thing) turned over, lit, back for belly: (K:) or, as in a copy of the L, he turned a thing over, back for belly. (TA.)

كَفَتَهُ, (K,) or كَفَتَهُ عَنْ وَجْهِهِ, (S,) aorist كَفِتَ , (K,) verbal noun كَفْتٌ; and ↓ كفّته; (TA;) He turned him away, averted him, or diverted him, from his course, or design. (S, K.) (You say) كَفَتَهُ عَنْ حَاجَتِهِ He withheld him, restrained him, or debarred him, from the thing that he wanted. (As.)

اللّٰهُ ↓ كفّتهُ God took him; synonym قَبَضَهُ: meaning he died: and so كفتة اللّٰه اليه. (TA.)

-A2- كَفَتٌ, [aorist كَفِتَ , (S, K) verbal noun كَفْتٌ and كِفَاتٌ and كَفِيتٌ and كَفَتَانٌ, (K,) He, or it, hastened, or was quick, or swift: (S:) it (a bird &c.) hastened, or was quick, or swift, in flying, and running, and contracted itself therein: (K:) it (a solid-hoofed animal) contracted its fore-legs quickly in running: (Az:) the kind of running and flying termed كَفَتَانٌ is like a turning aside, or starting aside, (حَيَدَانٌ) with violence, or vehemence. (TA.)

-A3- كَفَتَهُ, [aorist كَفِتَ ,] verbal noun كَفْتٌ, He drove him, or urged him on, vehemently. (S.)

كَفَتَ الشَّىْءَ إِلَيْهِ, (aorist كَفِتَ , verbal noun كَفْتٌ, S,); and ↓ كفّته; (but the latter has an intensive signification; S;) He drew the thing together to himself, (S, K,) and contracted it, grasped it, or took it. (K.) [See an example of the latter verb in a verse cited voce رَاجِلَةٌ.]

إِكْفِتُوا صِبْيَانَكُمْ بِاللَّيْلِ (S) Draw together your boys, and confine them in the houses, or tents, at night. (A 'Obeyd.) Said by Mohammad.

نُهِينَا أَنْ نَكْفِتَ الثِّيَابَ فِى الصَّلَاةِ We have been forbidden to draw together the clothes [that are upon us] in prayer: meaning, in the inclination of the body, and in prostration. (TA, from a tradition)

كَفَتَ الدِّرْعَ بِالسَّيْفِ, aorist كَفِتَ ; and ↓ كفّتها; which latter has an intensive signification; He hung the coat of mail [i.e. the lower part of it] by means of, or upon, the sword [which he was wearing], and then drew it together to him. Zuheyr says, describing a coat of mail, of which the wearer had hung upon the sword the redundant lower portions, and drawn it together to him,

وَ مُفَاضَةٍ كَالنَّهْىِ تَنْسِجُهُ الصَّبَا

بَيْضَاءَ كَفَّتَ فَضْلَهَا بِمُهَنَّدِ

[And an ample coat of mail, like the pool which the east wind ripples in transverse directions; white; the redundant lower parts of which he had hung upon the sword of Indian steel, and which he had then drawn together to him.] (TA.)