# كفن
## Arabic

* Root
* ك ف ن (k f n)
* 2 terms

### Verb

كَفَنَ • (kafana) I (non-past يَكْفِنُ (yakfinu), verbal noun كَفْن (kafn))
* to cover with a winding sheet, to shroud, dress for the grave (the deceased)

#### Conjugation
### Verb

كَفَّنَ • (kaffana) II (non-past يُكَفِّنُ (yukaffinu), verbal noun تَكْفِين (takfīn))
* to wrap

#### Conjugation
### Noun

كَفَن • (kafan) m (plural أَكْفَان (ʔakfān))
* shroud, winding sheet, wrapping of a dead

#### Descendants

* Maltese: kefen
* → Adyghe: чэфын (čɛfən)
* → Azerbaijani: kəfən
* → Indonesian: kafan
* → Northern Kurdish: kefen
* → Malay: kapan
* → Ottoman Turkish: كفن (kefen, kefin), كفین (kefin)
** Turkish: kefen
** → Abkhaz: ақьафан (akʲafan)
** → Albanian: qefin
** → Middle Armenian: քեֆին (kʻefin)
*** → Armenian: քէֆին (kʻēfin)
* → Persian: کفن (kafan)
** → Gujarati: કફન (kaphan)
** → Hindustani:
    Hindi: कफ़न (kafan)
    Urdu: کفن (kafan)
* → Uyghur: كېپەن (këpen)
* → Uzbek: kafan

### References

* Баранов, Х. К. (2011) “كفن”, in Большой арабско-русский словарь (Bolʹšoj arabsko-russkij slovarʹ), 11th edition, Москва: Живой язык, →ISBN
* Lane, Edward William (1863) “كفن”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate
* Wehr, Hans (1979) “كفن”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

## Ottoman Turkish
### Alternative forms

* كفین (kefin)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic كَفَن (kafan, “shroud, winding cloth”), verbal noun of كَفَنَ (kafana, “to cover with a shroud”).

### Noun

كفن • (kefen or kefin) (definite accusative كفنی (kefeni, kefini), plural اكفان (ekfân))
* shroud, winding cloth, any cloth in which a corpse is wrapped for burial

#### Derived terms

* كفن صارمق (kefen sarmak, “to wind a shroud”)
* كفنجی (kefenci, “maker or seller of shrouds”)
* كفندزد (kefendüzd, “stealer of shrouds”)
* كفنلمك (kefenlemek, “to shroud, wrap”)
* كفنلی (kefenli, “wound in a shroud”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: kefen
* → Abkhaz: ақьафан (akʲafan)
* → Albanian: qefin
* → Middle Armenian: քեֆին (kʻefin)
** → Armenian: քէֆին (kʻēfin)

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kefen1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2521
* Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “kefen”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 602
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كفن”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1031a
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sindon feralis”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1560
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كفن”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 3984
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kefen”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كفن”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1557a