كلس

Arabic

FWOTD – 14 September 2019
كِلْس

Etymology

From Classical Syriac ܟܠܫܐ (kelšā), from Ancient Greek χάλιξ (khálix).

Noun

كِلْس (kils) m

  1. lime, chalk, whitewash

Declension

Derived terms

  • كِلْسِيّ (kilsiyy)
  • كَلَّسَ (kallasa)

Verb

كَلَّسَ (kallasa) II, non-past يُكَلِّسُ‎ (yukallisu)

  1. to calcify, to saturate with chalk
  2. to trample upon as to press it together, to apply force upon the surface of

Conjugation

Descendants

  • Kurdish
    Northern Kurdish: kisl
    Central Kurdish: قسڵ (qisll)

References

  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), كلس”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 483
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 8
  • Freytag, Georg (1837), كلس”, 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 54
  • Guidi, Ignazio (1879) Della sede primitiva dei popoli semitici (in Italian), Rome: Tipi del Salviucci, page 16
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), كلس”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 923
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