قفل

Meaning

Verb

1. to return from a journey
2. to carry on a usurious grain trade

Noun

1. (form-of, noun-from-verb) verbal noun of قَفَلَ (qafala, “to lock, gather, dry up”) (form I)
2. (form-of, noun-from-verb) verbal noun of قَفِلَ (qafila, “to dry up”) (form I)

Noun

1. Audio: (file)
2. lock, bolt

Noun

kafal (Commiphora kua syn. Commiphora abyssinica and Commiphora erythraea and Commiphora myrrha)

Concepts

lock

🔒

close

shut

close up

block

obstruct

return

embarrass

fold

hinder

impede

interlock

jam

latch

obturate

occlude

padlock

shut down

stymie

stymy

close securely

blockade

bolt

chateau

close down

come back

conclude

Synonyms

غلق

سد

أنهى

🔚

تخلص منه بسعر مخفض

أغْلق

راقب

أغلق

ضيق

اتفق

اشتبك

فض

ختم

🦭

طبق

عانق

حجز

أعاق

عطل لاعب

إعترض

حجبه عن النظر

أعاق حركة المرور

مارس الإعاقة

عرْقل

اعترض

انسد

عرقل

أحبط

عطل

خدر

عاق

هوس

أمسك ب

أوقف

سدّ

عقد

أخفى

منع

حبس

جمع

أزلج

أسدل

تنطبق الأسنان

اِخْتتم

عوّق

وضع عقبة

أربك

تشابك

حاصر

رجع

ضاعف

عاد

Translations

serrure

🔒

fermer

cerrar

fechadura

🔒

fechar

Schloss

🔒

cerradura

🔒

serratura

🔒

slot

🔒

tancar

κλείνω

cloure

cadenat

fermer à clé

Etymology

From the root ق ف ل (q f l). The word for a lock is presumed to be from Aramaic פוּפְלָא / ܩܘܼܦ݂ܠܵܐ (qup̄lā, “bolt; bond”) and the verbs “to lock” denominal verbs; to be separated from genuine meanings related to drying, withering up and the returning from a journey related by the idea of retraction or folding-up (leaves as well as belongings; mind also the well-known قَافِلَة (qāfila, “caravan”)), while the meanings of amassing and usuring are derived from perhaps both by the idea of locking up belongings or returning with riches. And the Aramaic is derived by Brockelmann, Asatrian, and Toll from Latin cōpula, but Diem deems this daring and CAL to be rejected, and instead related to the root ܟ ܒ ܠ related to binding whence ܟܒܠܐ (kaḇlā, “fetter”).