ك ن س

ك ن س • (k-n-s)

1. related to sweeping
2. related to retreating, hiding (derivative due to animal (gazelle) behavior of entering hiding-place with swept ground (كِنَاس) )

• Form I: كَنَسَ‎ (kanasa, “to hide, to retreat”)
  • Verbal noun: كُنُوس‎ (kunūs)
  • Active participle: كَانِس‎ (kānis)
• Form I: كَنَسَ‎ (kanasa, “to sweep”)
  • Verbal noun: كَنْس‎ (kans)
  • Active participle: كَانِس‎ (kānis)
  • Passive participle: مَكْنُوس‎ (maknūs)
• Form V: تَكَنَّسَ‎ (takannasa, “to hide, to retreat”)
  • Verbal noun: تَكَنُّس‎ (takannus)
  • Active participle: مُتَكَنِّس‎ (mutakannis)
• Form VIII: اِكْتَنَسَ‎ (iktanasa, “to hide, to retreat”)
  • Verbal noun: اِكْتِنَاس‎ (iktinās)
  • Active participle: مُكْتَنِس‎ (muktanis)

• كِنَاس‎ (kinās, “covert, den, burrow”)
• كُنَاسَة‎ (kunāsa, “sweepings”)
• كَنَّاسَة‎ (kannāsa, “sweeping tool”)
• كَنَّاس‎ (kannās, “sweeper, scavenger”)
• كَنِيسَة‎ (kanīsa, “congregation”)
• كَنِيس‎ (kanīs, “congregation”)
• مَكْنَس‎ (maknas, “hiding place”)
• مِكْنَسَة‎ (miknasa, “broom”)

• Freytag, Georg (1837), “ك ن 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, pages 63–64
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “ك ن س”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2633–2634
• Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “ك ن س”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 1122–1123