قس

قَسَّ • (qassa) I (non-past يَقُسُّ (yaqussu), verbal noun قَسّ (qass))

1. to seek, to pursue
2. to strive, to aspire

قَسّ • (qass) m

1. verbal noun of قَسَّ (qassa) (form I)

Clipping of قِسِّيس (qissīs), from Classical Syriac ܩܫܝܫܐ (qašīšā, “priest”).

قَسّ or قِسّ • (qass or qiss) m (plural قُسُوس (qusūs) or قُسُس (qusus))

1. (Christianity) clergyman; priest; pastor, minister

   دَرَجَاتُ الْقِسِّيسِيَّةِ عِنْدَ الْمَلْكَانِيَّةِ وَالْيَعَاقِبَةِ ثَلَاثَةٌ: أُسْقُفٌ، وَقِسٌّ، وَشَمَّاسٌ.

   darajātu l-qissīsiyyati ʕinda l-malkāniyyati wālyaʕāqibati ṯalāṯatun: ʔusqufun, waqissun, wašammāsun.

   The orders of the priesthood in the Eastern and Oriental Churches are three: bishop, priest, and deacon.

   شَاهَدْتُ خُطْبَةً لِقِسٍّ أَمْرِيكِيٍّ.

   šāhadtu ḵuṭbatan liqissin ʔamrīkiyyin.

   I watched a sermon by an American pastor.

The word is a synonym of كَاهِن (kāhin, “priest”) in Arabic episcopal Christianity. In congregationalist Christianity, قِسّ (qiss) corresponds to several Protestant titles, like "pastor" or "minister," while كَاهِن (kāhin, “priest”) is not used, since these denominations have no priesthood.

• قُسُوسِيّ (qusūsiyy, “priestly, ordination”)
• قُسُوسَة (qusūsa, “priesthood”)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

قِسْ • (qis) (form I) /qis/

1. second-person masculine singular imperative of قَاسَ (qāsa)

• Freytag, Georg (1835) “قس”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 441
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “قس”, 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 (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 734–735
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “قس”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 2521
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “قس”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, page 835
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “قس”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1023

Compare Northern Kurdish quz (“pussy”) and Persian کس (kos, “pussy”).

قس • (qos)

1. (dialectal, vulgar, slang) pussy, cunt, fanny