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كلس

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

كِلْسٌ ذ (S, K) and by poetic licence. ↓ كِلِّسٌ (IJ) i. q. صَارُوجٌ [i. e. Quick time, and the mixtures thereof, with which are plastered tanks, or cisterns, and baths, &c. ], (S, K.) or the like thereof, (TA,) with which one builds: (S, TA:) or that with which a wall, or the inside of a palace or the like, is plastered, resembling جِص [or gypsum ], without baked bricks. (TA.) A poet says, (S,) namely 'Adee Ibn-Zeyd, describing El-Hadr, a city between the Tigris and Euphrates, (TA,) شَادَهُ مَرْمَرًا وَجَلَّلَهُ كِلْ سًا فَلِلطَّيْرِ فِى ذُرَاهُ وُكُورُ [ He raised it high, of marble, and covered it with quick time, and there were nests for the birds in its tops ]: or, accord. to As, the right reading is وَخَلَّلَهُ كِلْسًا, with خ, meaning, and put صاروج into the interstices of its stones; and he used to laugh at him who related it in the former manner, with ج. (TA.) But see 2.

Derived headwords

كِلْسٌ
  1. 1.
شَادَهُ مَرْمَرًا وَجَلَّلَهُ كِلْ
سًا فَلِلطَّيْرِ فِى ذُرَاهُ وُكُورُ
وَخَلَّلَهُ كِلْسًا