كيس

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See also: کیش and گیس

Arabic

Etymology 1

From Aramaic כִּיסָא (kīsā, sack; purse); from Akkadian 𒋢𒃻𒉌𒌓 (kīsu, leather bag for weights and silver; silver capital; treasury); cognates with Classical Syriac ܟܺܝܣܳܐ (kīsā) and Hebrew כִּיס (kîs).

Noun

كِيس (kīsm or f (plural أَكْيَاس (ʔakyās) or كِيَسَة (kiyasa))

  1. bag, sack
  2. purse
  3. scrotum
Declension
Descendants
  • Gulf Arabic: چيس (čīs)

Etymology 2

From the root ك ي س (k-y-s).

Adjective

كَيِّس (kayyis) (feminine كَيِّسَة (kayyisa), masculine plural أَكْيَاس (ʔakyās) or كَيْسَى (kaysā), feminine plural كِيَاس (kiyās), elative أَكْيَس (ʔakyas))

  1. cunning, acute, sharp-witted, shrewd
Declension

Verb

كَيَّسَ (kayyasa) II, non-past يُكَيِّسُ‎ (yukayyisu)

  1. to render clever, to make sharp in intellect
Conjugation

Noun

كَيْس (kaysm

  1. verbal noun of كَاسَ (kāsa) (form I)
Declension

References

  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 197
  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “كيس”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 74
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “كيس”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[2], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2639–2640
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “كيس”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary[3], London: W.H. Allen, page 902
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “كيس”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1132