ك ي س

ك ي س • (k-y-s)

1. shrewdness, wit

• 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 (kāʔis)
  • 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 (ʔakāsa, “to bring forth clever children”)
  • Verbal noun: إِكَاسَة‎ (ʔikāsa)
  • Active participle: مُكِيس‎ (mukīs)
• Form IV: أَكْيَسَ‎ (ʔakyasa, “to bring forth clever children”)
  • Verbal noun: إِكَاسَة‎ (ʔikāsa)
  • 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”)

• 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