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كَفَالَةٌ

Root: كفل

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كَفَالَةٌ Responsibility; answerableness; amenability; or suretiship; the conjoining of one responsibility (ذِمَّة) to another, [i. e., the conjoining one's own responsibility to that of another person,] with respect to the right of suit, [so that one person becomes liable to be sued for that which another owes]; i. q. ضَمَانٌ.
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