كرس

• IPA^(key): /kar.ra.sa/

كَرَّسَ • (karrasa) II (non-past يُكَرِّسُ (yukarrisu), verbal noun تَكْرِيس (takrīs))

1. (transitive) to put together, to found, to consolidate, to strengthen, to enshrine
2. (ditransitive) to focus, to dedicate, to devote, to set aside

• IPA^(key): /kirs/

كِرْس • (kirs) m (plural أَكْرَاس (ʔakrās) or أَكَارِيس (ʔakārīs))

1. foundation, lowest part of a building, base
2. origin, stock, foundation
3. conjoined buildings, conjunct abodes, stables
4. clump of sharn or ball of dung, compacted cake of dung and urine of livestock

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:براز

5. the place where livestock stands and is compacted from the mixture of soil and excrement
6. throng, compacted crowd of people

   Synonym: زَرَافَة (zarāfa)

7. line of beads, string of pearls in a necklace

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• Fleischer, Heinrich Leberecht (1885) Kleinere Schriften‎ (in German), volume 1, Leipzig: S. Hirzel, pages 181–182
• Freytag, Georg (1837) “كرس”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 25
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “كرس”, 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, page 884
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “كرس”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 2605
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “كرس”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, page 881
• Ullmann, Manfred (1959–1970) Wörterbuch der klassischen arabischen Sprache. Band I (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, pages 125b–128a
• Wahrmund, Adolf (1887) “كرس”, in Handwörterbuch der neu-arabischen und deutschen Sprache‎ (in German), volume 2, Gießen: J. Ricker’sche Buchhandlung, page 569
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “كرس”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1095
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “كرس”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, pages 960–961

• IPA^(key): /ciˈɾɛs/

كرس • (kires)

1. Alternative form of كراس (kiras, “sweet cherry”)