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كيس

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

5 تكيّس ذ He affected acuteness or sharpness or quickness of intellect, shrewdness, cleverness, ingeniousness, skilfulness, knowledge, or intelligence: [see تَعَقَّلَ:] or did so, not having it: syn. تَظَرَّفَ: (S, K, TA:) he feigned, or made a show of, كَيْس [i. e. acuteness or sharpness or quickness of intellect; &c.]. (TA.) ― -b2- See also 1.

Derived headwords

تكيّسverb
  1. 1.