كسرة

Arabic

Etymology

Instance noun of the verb كَسَر (kasar, to break), from the root ك س ر (k-s-r).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kas.ra/

Noun

كَسْرَة (kasra) f (plural كَسَرَات (kasarāt))

  1. (linguistics, grammar) kasra (a vowel in Arabic signifying an /i/ sound)
    Hypernym: حَرَكَة (ḥaraka)
  2. instance noun of كَسَرَ (kasara)

Declension

كِسْرَة

Noun

كِسْرَة (kisra) f (plural كِسَر (kisar) or كِسْرَات (kisrāt))

  1. fragment
    أَعْطِنِي وَظِيفَةً مَعَ ٱلْأَحْبَارِ لِآكُلَ كِسْرَةَ خُبْزٍ
    ʔaʕṭinī waẓīfatan maʕa l-ʔaḥbāri liʔākula kisrata ḵubzin
    Give me a job with the priests that I may eat a fragment of bread.
  2. (Sudan, Chad, Algeria, Tunisia) a type of flatbread

Declension

Descendants

  • Nobiin: kisra

References

  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), كسرة”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 885
  • Wehr, Hans (1979), كسر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 968
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