كَفَّارَةٌ
Root: كفر
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كَفَّارَةٌ
a subst. from تَكْفِيرُ اليَمِينِ, or an intensive epithet in which the quality of a subst. predominates; signifying [An expiation for a sin or crime or a violated oath;] an action, or a quality, which has the effect of effacing a wrong action or sin or crime; that which covers, or conceals, sins or crimes; such as the
كفّارة
of oaths [violated], and that of [the kind of divorce termed] ظِهَار, and of unintentional homicide; an expiation (مَا كُفِّرَ بِهِ), such as an alms-giving, and a fasting, and the like: pl. كَفَّارَاتٌ.
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