قصب

Back-formation from قَصَّاب (qaṣṣāb, “butcher”) borrowed from Aramaic קצבא / ܩܰܨܳܒܳܐ (qaṣṣābā), therewith forming a root ق ص ب (q-ṣ-b). Doublet of indigenous Arabic قَضَبَ (qaḍaba, “to cut off, to trim”).

قَصَبَ • (qaṣaba) I (non-past يَقْصِبُ (yaqṣibu), verbal noun قَصْب (qaṣb))

1. to cut up (a slaughtered animal)

قَصْب • (qaṣb) m

1. verbal noun of قَصَبَ (qaṣaba) (form I)

From the root ق ص ب (q-ṣ-b) of the aforementioned verb meaning “to be segment”, “to be cut into sections”, “to be severed”; stemming from a reed's divisions or from being collected as cut pieces; compare قَضْب (qaḍb).

قَصَب • (qaṣab) m (collective, singulative قَصَبَة f (qaṣaba))

1. stalk
2. reed, cane (especially sugarcane)
3. thread, filament
   • a. 1100, الرشيد بن الزبير [ar-rašīd ibn az-zubayr], edited by محمد حمید الله [muḥammad ḥamīdullāḥ] and صلاح الدين المنجد [ṣalāḥ ad-dīn al-munajjid], كتاب الذخائر والتحف [kitāb aḏ-ḏaḵāʔir wa-t-tuḥaf]‎, al-Kuwayt: دائرة المطبوعات والنشر, published 1959, pages 61 line 3 a fine–62 line 2:

     وفلسقيتان أُخريان من بِلّوْر مربّط ففضة، مذهّبة الناحية الواحدة، مشبكة بجواهر، وفي وسطها درات، وفي الناحية الأخُرَى أَربع قصبات فضة مطلية بذهب، وكرنيب وكوز فضة مطليّان بذهب مجرى فيهما الجوهر.

     And two other flasks are of crystals twined with silver, gildened in one corner, netted with jewels, and in their mids pearls, and in the other corner four threads of silver thatched with gold, and a bowl and a mug of silver layered both with gold and woven with gemstones.

4. pipe

• → Afar: kasab

• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 258
• Freytag, Georg (1835) “قصب”, 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 450
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “قصب”, 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 746
• Löw, Immanuel (1928) Die Flora der Juden‎ (in German), volume 1, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 662–685

From Arabic قَصَب (qaṣab).

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.sˤab/

قصب • (gaṣab) m (collective, singulative قَصَبة f (gaṣaba))

1. stalk
2. reed, cane (especially sugarcane)

Borrowed from Arabic قَصَب (qaṣab).

قصب • (qasab)

1. reed; cane

   Synonym: نی (ney)

2. fine linen cloth (traditionally made in Egypt)
   • c. 1060, Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Safarnāma [Book of Travels]‎:

     آنجا قصب رنگین بافند از عمامه‌ها و وقایه‌ها و آنچه زنان پوشند. از این قصب‌های رنگین هیچ جا مثل آن نبافند که در تنیس، و آنچه سپید باشد به دمیاط بافتند، و آنچه در کارخانه سلطانی بافند به کسی نفروشند و ندهند.

     ānjā qasab-i rangēn bāfand az imāma-hā u wiqāya-hā u ānči zanān pōšand. az īn qasab-hā-yi rangēn hēč jā misl-i ān na-bāfand ki dar tinnīs, w-ānči sapēd bāšad ba dumyāt bāftand, w-ānči dar kārxāna-yi sultānī bāfand ba kasē na-furōšand u na-dahand.

     Colored linen cloth is woven there for turbans, head scarves, and the things women wear. Nowhere is the like of this colored linen cloth woven other than in Tinnīs; and the white ones were woven in Damietta. Whatever is woven in the king's workshops are neither sold nor gifted to anyone.

Borrowed from Arabic قَصْب (qaṣb).

قصب • (qasb)

1. Synonym of خرمای زاهدی (xormâ-ye zâhedi, “Zahidi palm date”).