Dictionary of The Holy Quran — Page 726
كان کهف 20 hidden in your minds )2:236( كِلٌّ : A place of concealment; shelter of a wall; a thing that serves for covering or protecting )أَكْنَانُ and أكنة are plurals. مِنَ الْجِبَالِ أَكْنَانًا : In the mountains places of shelter )16:82( جَعَلْنَا عَلَى قُلُوْبِهِمْ اَكِنَّةً : We have put veils upon their hearts )6:26( مَكَوْنُ )pass. part. noun): Protected; preserved. فِي كِتَابٍ مَّكْنُوْنِ : In a well-protected Book )56:79(. اكْتَهَفَ He entered the cave كَهْفٌ : A spacious cave; refuge; asylum )18:11(. A small cave is called غَارٌ كَهَلَ aor. يَكْهَلُ inf. noun كُهُوْلاً[ and إِكْتَهَلَ النَّبَاتُ كَهُلَ : The plant became tall and full grown : He became كَهْلاً which means one who enters on the age of maturity between thirty and fifty; of middle age; between that age and the period when his hair has become intermixed with hoariness (3:47). كَهُنَ aor. يَكْهُنُ inf. noun كَهُنَ كَهَانَةٌ or كَهَنَ : He foretold the future; he became a soothsayer كَاهِنٌ : A soothsayer (52:30); magician; priest. كَابَ aor. يَكُوبُ inf. noun كَرْبًا [ : He drunk with a cup كُرْبٌ : A large cup which has no handle اَكْوَابٌ )plural 76:16(. گاد aor. يَكَادُ inf. noun كَرْدًا[ : He was about to do a thing but he did not do it, لَقَدْ كِدْتَ تَرْكَنُ إِلَيْهِمْ : Thou mightiest have inclined to them a little (but you did not) (17:75). The word also means أَرَادَ : He intended. أَكَادُ أُخْفِيْهَا : I was going to manifest it )20:16(. و كَارَ aor. يَكُورُ inf. noun كَوَّرَ الْعِمَامَةَ كَوْرًا : He wound the turban in a spiral form and folded it up. كَوَّرَهُ : He threw him down. It also means be eclipsed. إِذَا الشَّمْسُ كُوِّرَتْ : When the sun will be folded, wrapped up, effaced; will be eclipsed )812( يُكَوِّرُ الَّيْلَ عَلَى النَّهَارِ وَيُكَوِّرُ النَّهَارَ عَلَى الَّيْلِ : He (God) makes the day to cover or overtake the night and makes the night to cover or overtake the day (39:6). كَوْكَبٌ Star, planets chief; prince; pupil of the eye )12:50( الْكَوَاكِبُ (plural 37:7). كان The word is used in several senses: (1) in the sense of "is" as 726