قفلة

Arabic

Etymology 1

Instance noun

Noun

قَفْلَة • (qafla) f

  1. instance noun of قَفَلَ (qafala), an instance of there being a locking-up or block, for instance a writer’s block
  2. cadence in music
Declension

Etymology 2

From Classical Syriac ܩܷܦܱܠܷܐܘܳܢ (qeppalleʾōn, “sum”), from Ancient Greek κεφάλαιον (kephálaion, “sum”).

Noun

قَفْلَة • (qafla) f

  1. (obsolete, Yemen, in apposition) whole, without deduction
Declension

Further reading

  • Toll, Christopher (1969) “Einige metrologische und metallurgische Termini im Arabischen”, in Orientalia Suecana‎ (in German), volume 18, pages 142–144
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