كبست
See also: گپ شپ and کبست
Arabic
Etymology 1
From Persian کبست (kabast, “colocynth”). For meaning the colocynth’s pulp, apparently influenced by the Arabic root ك ب س (k-b-s) related to pressing, squeezing.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.bast/
Noun
كَبَسْت • (kabast) m (obsolete, rare)
- pulp of the colocynth
- Holonyms: حَنْظَل (ḥanẓal), حَدَج (ḥadaj), عَلْقَم (ʿalqam)
- a. 1050, مروان بن جناح [Marwān ibn Janāḥ], Gerrit Bos, Fabian Käs, editors, كتاب التلخيص [kitāb at-talḵīṣ] [On the Nomenclature of Medicinal Drugs], Leiden: Brill, published 2020, DOI:, →ISBN, 654 (fol. 43v,16–17), page 938:
- كبست هو الحنظل، وإذا قيل شحم الكبست فإنّما يراد شحم الحنظل.
- kabast is the colocynth, and if someone in a recipe demands kabast grease he wants colocynth pulp.
- 1179, أبو الخير الإشبيلي [Abū al-Ḵayr al-ʾIšbīliyy], Joaquín Bustamante, Federico Corriente y Mohand Tilmatine, editor, كتاب عمدة الطبيب في معرفة النبات لكل لبيب [Libro base del médico para el conocimiento de la botánica por todo experto] (Fuentes Arábico-Hispanas), volume I, Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional, published 2004, page 256 Nr. 2399:
- كبَسْت: هو شحم الحنظل.
- kabast is the pulp of the colocynth.
Declension
Declension of noun كَبَسْت (kabast)
| Singular | basic singular triptote | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
| Informal | كَبَسْت kabast | الْكَبَسْت al-kabast | كَبَسْت kabast |
| Nominative | كَبَسْتٌ kabastun | الْكَبَسْتُ al-kabastu | كَبَسْتُ kabastu |
| Accusative | كَبَسْتًا kabastan | الْكَبَسْتَ al-kabasta | كَبَسْتَ kabasta |
| Genitive | كَبَسْتٍ kabastin | الْكَبَسْتِ al-kabasti | كَبَسْتِ kabasti |
Verb
كَبَسْتُ • (kabastu) (form I)
- first-person singular past active of كَبَسَ (kabasa)
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كُبِسْتُ • (kubistu) (form I)
- first-person singular past passive of كَبَسَ (kabasa)
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كَبَسْتَ • (kabasta) (form I)
- second-person masculine singular past active of كَبَسَ (kabasa)
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كُبِسْتَ • (kubista) (form I)
- second-person masculine singular past passive of كَبَسَ (kabasa)
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كَبَسْتِ • (kabasti) (form I)
- second-person feminine singular past active of كَبَسَ (kabasa)
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كُبِسْتِ • (kubisti) (form I)
- second-person feminine singular past passive of كَبَسَ (kabasa)
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كَبَسَتْ • (kabasat) (form I)
- third-person feminine singular past active of كَبَسَ (kabasa)
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كُبِسَتْ • (kubisat) (form I)
- third-person feminine singular past passive of كَبَسَ (kabasa)
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كَبَّسْتُ • (kabbastu) (form II)
- first-person singular past active of كَبَّسَ (kabbasa)
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كُبِّسْتُ • (kubbistu) (form II)
- first-person singular past passive of كَبَّسَ (kabbasa)
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كَبَّسْتَ • (kabbasta) (form II)
- second-person masculine singular past active of كَبَّسَ (kabbasa)
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كُبِّسْتَ • (kubbista) (form II)
- second-person masculine singular past passive of كَبَّسَ (kabbasa)
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كَبَّسْتِ • (kabbasti) (form II)
- second-person feminine singular past active of كَبَّسَ (kabbasa)
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كُبِّسْتِ • (kubbisti) (form II)
- second-person feminine singular past passive of كَبَّسَ (kabbasa)
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كَبَّسَتْ • (kabbasat) (form II)
- third-person feminine singular past active of كَبَّسَ (kabbasa)
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كُبِّسَتْ • (kubbisat) (form II)
- third-person feminine singular past passive of كَبَّسَ (kabbasa)