Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ك

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2 كَلَّفَ نَفْسَهُ شَيْئًا ذ He tasked himself with a thing, as also ↓ تَكَلَّفَ شَيئًا . ― -b2- كَلَّفَهُ أَمْرًا He tasked him to do a thing; imposed upon him the task of doing a thing. ― -b3- So تَكْلِيفٌ The imposition of a task or duty. ― -b4- A task; compulsory work; a duty imposed. ― -b5- كَلَّفَهُ الأَمْرَ He imposed upon him the thing, or affair; syn. حَمَّلَهُ إِِيَّاهُ. (Msb.) ― -b6- كَلَّفَ نَفْسَهُ He put himself to trouble or inconvenience; like ↓ تَكَلَّفَ alone. ― -b7- كَلَّفَهُ كَذَا He imposed upon him the task of doing, or procuring, or bringing, such a thing. ― -b8- كَلَّفَهُ أَمْرًا He imposed upon him a thing, or an affair, in spite of difficulty, trouble, or inconvenience: (Msb:) he ordered him to do a thing that was difficult, troublesome, or inconvenient, to him: (S, K:) he made, required, or constrained, him to do a thing; exacted of him the doing a thing; meaning, a thing that was difficult, troublesome, or inconvenient to him: (Kull, 123; and the Lexicons, passim.) See جَتَّمَهُ. ― -b9- تَكْلِيفٌ An imposition; a requisition: con straint, &c.