33 times in the Quran · 2 word forms · rank 274

The Quran root ك ف ي k-f-y

Words built from the root ك ف ي ([k-f-y]) appear 33 times in the Quran. The most common is كَفَى, “sufficient”, which comes 32 times. Learn the root once and you can recognise every word made from it.

Words from this root

Word	Say it	Meaning	Times
كَفَى	kafaa	sufficient · Sufficient is	32
كاف	kaaf	sufficient	1

Examples from the Quran

فَإِنْ آمَنُوا بِمِثْلِ مَا آمَنتُم بِهِ فَقَدِ اهْتَدَوا وَّإِن تَوَلَّوْا فَإِنَّمَا هُمْ فِي شِقَاقٍ فَسَيَكْفِيكَهُمُ اللَّهُ وَهُوَ السَّمِيعُ الْعَلِيمُ ١٣٧

فَسَيَكْفِيكَهُمُ fasayakfīkahumu · So will suffice you against them

So if they believe in the same as you believe in, then they have been [rightly] guided; but if they turn away, they are only in dissension, and Allāh will be sufficient for you against them. And He is the Hearing, the Knowing. (Surah Al-Baqarah, 2:137)

إِذْ تَقُولُ لِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ أَلَن يَكْفِيَكُمْ أَن يُمِدَّكُمْ رَبُّكُم بِثَلَاثَةِ آلَافٍ مِّنَ الْمَلَائِكَةِ مُنزَلِينَ ١٢٤

يَكْفِيَكُمْ yakfiyakum · enough for you

[Remember] when you said to the believers, "Is it not sufficient for you that your Lord should reinforce you with three thousand angels sent down? (Surah Ali 'Imran, 3:124)

أَلَيْسَ اللَّهُ بِكَافٍ عَبْدَهُ وَيُخَوِّفُونَكَ بِالَّذِينَ مِن دُونِهِ وَمَن يُضْلِلِ اللَّهُ فَمَا لَهُ مِنْ هَادٍ ٣٦

بِكَافٍ bikāfin · sufficient

Is not Allāh sufficient for His Servant [i.e., Prophet Muḥammad (ﷺ)]? And [yet], they threaten you with those [they worship] other than Him. And whoever Allāh leaves astray - for him there is no guide. (Surah Az-Zumar, 39:36)

Surahs where it comes most

Each meaning is taken from the word-by-word translation of the verses, so a word can show two meanings from different contexts. Root and base-word data come from the Quranic Arabic Corpus.