كَفَافِthe sufficiency in Arabic

Example sentences

• وَقِيلَ يَعِدُكُمْ الْفَقْرُ فِي طَلَبِ فَوْقَ الْكَفَافِ

  And it was said: poverty will befall you when you seek beyond what suffices.

  الْكَفَافِ — the sufficiency. The noun 'sufficiency', made definite by al- ('the'), the owned half of 'beyond sufficiency', so it takes the 'of' (genitive) ending. It names the threshold that, once exceeded in seeking, brings on poverty.

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