كُفِيتَto be sufficed in Arabic

Example sentences

• قُلْتُ فَإِنْ كُفِيتَ ذَلِكَ وَدُعِيتَ إِلَى الْجَمَالِ وَالْمَالِ وَالشَرَفِ وَالْكَفَاءَةِ أَلا تُجِيبُ؟

  I said: If that would be enough, and you were asked for beauty, wealth, honor, and suitability, would you not answer?

  كُفِيتَ — you are sufficed. A past-tense verb in the passive ('you were sufficed/spared'): the vowels inside are set so the subject receives the action rather than doing it. Arabic marks the passive by these internal vowel changes, not a helper word; here it means that need would be taken care of for you.

  From: The Prophet's Marriage to Khadijah →