قلس

Denominal verb of قَلَنْسُوَة (qalansuwa).

قَلَّسَ • (qallasa) II (non-past يُقَلِّسُ (yuqallisu), verbal noun تَقْلِيس (taqlīs))

1. to put the قَلَنْسُوَة (qalansuwa) on

Apparently a twentieth-century borrowing (?) from Hebrew קִלֵּס (qilles, “to mock”) = Ugaritic 𐎖𐎍𐎕 (qlṣ, “to scorn”). Semantical doublet of سَلَقَ (salaqa) in the meaning which got borrowed from Ge'ez ተሳለቀ (täsaläḳä, “to scoff at”) (the Ethiopic cognate to the Northwest Semitic by metathesis).

قَلَّسَ • (qallasa) II (non-past يُقَلِّسُ (yuqallisu), verbal noun تَقْلِيس (taqlīs))

1. to mock, to deride

Borrowed from Classical Syriac ܩܰܠܶܣ (qalles, “to praise”), in Jewish Aramaic קַלֵּס, according to Rabin ultimately a bifurcated cultic word that is reflected in the opposite sense as Ugaritic 𐎖𐎍𐎕 (qlṣ, “to scorn”), Hebrew קִלֵּס (qilles, “to mock”) and Ge'ez ተሳለቀ (täsaläḳä, “to scoff at”) and is from Hittite (/⁠kalleš-⁠/, “to call, to invite”) from cultic contexts.

قَلَّسَ • (qallasa) II (non-past يُقَلِّسُ (yuqallisu), verbal noun تَقْلِيس (taqlīs)) (rare, obsolete)

1. to receive with songs or dance performances

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not sure if the same as 3 – 4 is included in Wehr while the former is from the time of ʿumar.”)

قَلَّسَ • (qallasa) II (non-past يُقَلِّسُ (yuqallisu), verbal noun تَقْلِيس (taqlīs))

1. to bow before

Apparently onomatopoeic.

قَلَسَ • (qalasa) I (non-past يَقْلِسُ (yaqlisu), verbal noun قَلْس (qals) or قَلَس (qalas))

1. to belch, to regurgitate, to vomit
   • 7th century CE, Bulūḡ al-Marām, 1:89:

     مَنْ أَصَابَهُ قَيْءٌ أَوْ رُعَافٌ, أَوْ قَلَسٌ, أَوْ مَذْيٌ فَلْيَنْصَرِفْ فَلْيَتَوَضَّأْ, ثُمَّ لِيَبْنِ عَلَى صَلَاتِهِ, وَهُوَ فِي ذَلِكَ لَا يَتَكَلَّمُ

     man ʔaṣābahu qayʔun ʔaw ruʕāfun, ʔaw qalasun, ʔaw maḏyun falyanṣarif falyatawaḍḍaʔ, ṯumma liyabni ʕalā ṣalātihi, wahuwa fī ḏalika lā yatakallamu

     Whoever vomits, bleeds through the nose, or released seminal discharge should go, perform ablution and then go over to his prayer, and he may not speak in the process.

قَلْس or قَلَس • (qals or qalas) m

1. verbal noun of قَلَسَ (qalasa) (form I)

From Ancient Greek κάλως (kálōs, “rope, cable”). Aramaic but found as Classical Syriac ܩܠܣܐ at Bar Bahlul.

قَلْس • (qals) m (plural قُلُوس (qulūs))

1. rope, cable

• “qls”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “قلس”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 394
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 228
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 284
• Freytag, Georg (1835) “قلس”, 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 488
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “قلس”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 2558
• Rabin, Chaim (1963) “Hittite Words in Hebrew”, in Orientalia, volume 32, number 2, →DOI, pages 122–123
• Vollers, Karl (1897) “Beiträge zur Kenntniss der lebenden arabischen Sprache in Aegypten”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎ (in German), volume 51, page 302
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “قلس”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1052