كَفِيتٌ
Root: كفت
Full Definition
كَفِيتٌ
: see كَفْتٌ.
2 One who contends with another in running, or in a race. كَفِيتٌ, as used in the following trad., in which Mohammad says, حُبِّبِ إِلَىَّ النِّسَاءُ وَالطِّيبُ وَرُزِقْتُ الكَفِيتَ [Women and perfumes have been made objects of love, or pleasant, to me; and I have been supplied with, or have received, &c.], signifies Food by which the body is sustained; or, sufficient to sustain life: or what sustains life: or that by which food necessary for the support of life is drawn, or collected, together, and properly prepared for use: [or the means of acquiring subsistence, &c.:] or coition; [meaning power for coition;] so accord. to El-Hasan: or strength for coition: or certain food that was sent down to Mohammad from heaven, of which he ate, and whereby he received strength for coition: he is related to have said, that Gabriel came to him with a cooking-pot called الكَفِيتُ, from which he derived the strength of forty men in coition: but Sgh says, in the TS, that the descent of the cookingpot from heaven is not accepted as true by the authors on the traditions.
3 See كِفْتٌ.
def.2 كَفِيتٌ A traveller's provision-bag that does not lose [or suffer to escape] anything of what is put into it: you say جِرَابٌ كفيتٌ: as also كِفْتٌ .
2 One who contends with another in running, or in a race. كَفِيتٌ, as used in the following trad., in which Mohammad says, حُبِّبِ إِلَىَّ النِّسَاءُ وَالطِّيبُ وَرُزِقْتُ الكَفِيتَ [Women and perfumes have been made objects of love, or pleasant, to me; and I have been supplied with, or have received, &c.], signifies Food by which the body is sustained; or, sufficient to sustain life: or what sustains life: or that by which food necessary for the support of life is drawn, or collected, together, and properly prepared for use: [or the means of acquiring subsistence, &c.:] or coition; [meaning power for coition;] so accord. to El-Hasan: or strength for coition: or certain food that was sent down to Mohammad from heaven, of which he ate, and whereby he received strength for coition: he is related to have said, that Gabriel came to him with a cooking-pot called الكَفِيتُ, from which he derived the strength of forty men in coition: but Sgh says, in the TS, that the descent of the cookingpot from heaven is not accepted as true by the authors on the traditions.
3 See كِفْتٌ.
def.2 كَفِيتٌ A traveller's provision-bag that does not lose [or suffer to escape] anything of what is put into it: you say جِرَابٌ كفيتٌ: as also كِفْتٌ .
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