قصب

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See also: قصت, قضب, and قضت

Arabic

Etymology 1

Back-formation from قَصَّاب (qaṣṣāb, butcher) borrowed from Aramaic קצבא /‎ ܩܰܨܳܒܳܐ (qaṣṣābā), therewith forming a root ق ص ب (q-ṣ-b). Doublet of indigenous Arabic قَضَبَ (qaḍaba, to cut off, to trim).

Verb

قَصَبَ (qaṣaba) I, non-past يَقْصِبُ‎ (yaqṣibu)

  1. to cut up (a slaughtered animal)
Conjugation

Noun

قَصْب (qaṣbm

  1. verbal noun of قَصَبَ (qaṣaba) (form I)
Declension

Etymology 2

قَصَب السُّكَّر‏

From the root ق ص ب (q-ṣ-b) meaning "to be segment", "to be cut into sections", "to be severed"; stemming from a reed's divisions or from being collected as cut pieces; compare قَضْب (qaḍb).

Noun

قَصَب (qaṣabm (collective, singulative قَصَبَة f (qaṣaba))

  1. stalk
  2. reed, cane (especially sugarcane)
  3. thread, filament
  4. pipe
Declension

References

  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 258
  • Freytag, Georg (1835) “قصب”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 450
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “قصب”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc[2] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 746
  • Löw, Immanuel (1928) Die Flora der Juden[3] (in German), volume 1, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 662–685