ك ي س
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”)
- Verbal noun: كَيْس (kays), كِيَاسَة (kiyāsa)
- Active participle: كَائِس (kāʾis)
- Passive participle: مَكِيس (makīs)
- Form II: كَيَّسَ (kayyasa, “to render clever, to make sharp in intellect”)
- Verbal noun: تَكْيِيس (takyīs)
- Active participle: مُكَيِّس (mukayyis)
- Passive participle: مُكَيَّس (mukayyas)
- Form III: كَايَسَ (kāyasa, “to vie with in intellect, to contend with in sharpness of mind”)
- Verbal noun: مُكَايَسَة (mukāyasa), كِيَاس (kiyās)
- Active participle: مُكَايِس (mukāyis)
- Passive participle: مُكَايَس (mukāyas)
- Form IV: أَكَاسَ (ʾakāsa, “to bring forth clever children”)
- Verbal noun: إِكَاسَة (ʾikāsa)
- Active participle: مُكِيس (mukīs)
- Form IV: أَكْيَسَ (ʾakyasa, “to bring forth clever children”)
- Verbal noun: إِكَاسَة (ʾikāsa)
- Active participle: مُكِيس (mukīs)
- Form V: تَكَيَّسَ (takayyasa, “to pretend sharpness of intellect”)
- Verbal noun: تَكَيُّس (takayyus)
- Active participle: مُتَكَيِّس (mutakayyis)
- 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; 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