kaf

kaf (plural kafs)

1. The twenty-second letter of the Arabic alphabet. ك‎ (k)
2. Alternative spelling of kaph

• (letter of the Arabic alphabet) Previous: ق‎ (q). Next: ل‎ (l)

• AFK, FKA, afk, f.k.a., f/k/a, fak, fka

From Middle Dutch caf, from Old Dutch *kaf, from Proto-Germanic *kafą.

Cognate German Kaff, English chaff, West Frisian tsjêf.

• IPA^(key): /kɑf/

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• Rhymes: -ɑf

kaf n (uncountable)

1. chaff

• → Caribbean Javanese: kaf

From Phoenician [Term?].

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑf/, [ˈkɑf]
• Rhymes: -ɑf
• Syllabification^(key): kaf

kaf

1. kaph, kaf (eleventh letter of the Hebrew and Phoenician scripts and the Northwest Semitic abjad, twenty-second letter of the Arabic script)

• (Arabic kaf): kāf

• IPA^(key): /káp/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [káp]

kaf

1. stealing everything

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /kʰaːv/
• Rhymes: -aːv

kaf n (genitive singular kafs, no plural)

1. the state of being submerged, immersed; submersion, immersion

From Arabic ك‎ (k, “kaf”).

• IPA^(key): /kaf/
• Hyphenation: kaf

kaf

1. The twenty-second letter of the Arabic alphabet. ك‎ (k)

From Dutch kaft (“book cover”).

• IPA^(key): /kaf/
• Hyphenation: kaf

kaf

1. cover (book)

   Synonym: sampul

• “kaf” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Unadapted borrowing from Hebrew כַּף‎ (kap̄).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaf/
• Rhymes: -af
• Hyphenation: kàf

kaf m or f (invariable)

1. kaph, specifically:
   1. the name of the Phoenician-script letter 𐤊
   2. the name of the Hebrew-script letter כ

• kappa

• IPA^(key): /kaːf/

kaf

1. past participle of kafen
2. second-person singular imperative of kafen

kaf

1. Alternative form of chaf

kaf

1. Letter of the Arabic alphabet: ق

kaf (nominative plural kafs)

1. coffee