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Arabic
Root
ك ي س • (k-y-s)
- shrewdness, wit
Derived terms
- Form I: كَاسَ (kāsa, “to be clever, to be acute in intellect, to have a sharp mind; to overcome in intellect, to surpass by shrewdness”)
- Form II: كَيَّسَ (kayyasa, “to render clever, to make sharp in intellect”)
- Form III: كَايَسَ (kāyasa, “to vie with in intellect, to contend with in sharpness of mind”)
- Form IV: أَكَاسَ (ʔakāsa, “to bring forth clever children”)
- Form IV: أَكْيَسَ (ʔakyasa, “to bring forth clever children”)
- Form V: تَكَيَّسَ (takayyasa, “to pretend sharpness of intellect”)
- كَيِّس (kayyis, “sharp in intellect”)
References
- Freytag, Georg (1837) “ك ي س”, 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 74
- Lane, Edward William (1863) “ك ي س”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2639–2640
- Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ك ي س”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1132