كركس

Root entry · 3 derived lemmas

This root primarily deals with concepts of repetition, being restricted or confined, and a specific type of rolling or tumbling motion. It also describes individuals of mixed or questionable lineage, often implying a lack of noble ancestry.

Derived headwords

الكَركسَةnoun

1.
repetitionboth
The act of repeating something or causing it to be repeated.
2.
hesitationclassical
The act of hesitating or wavering; indecision.
3.
gait of the confinedclassical
A specific manner of walking associated with someone who is fettered or restricted.
4.
rolling downboth
The act of tumbling or rolling from a higher place to a lower one.

المُكَرْكَسadjective

1.
son of enslaved mothersclassical
A person born to enslaved mothers, or whose lineage is traced through multiple enslaved women.
2.
of mixed/low lineageclassical
Describing someone of questionable or mixed ancestry, implying a lack of noble birth.
3.
fetteredclassical
Bound or restricted, as if by chains or fetters.

تَكَرْكَسَverb

1.
to roll downboth
To tumble or roll from a higher place to a lower one.

Parallel reading

الكركسة: ترديد الشيء.

Al-karkasah: repeating something.

والمكركس: الذي ولدته الإماء؛

And al-mukarkas: he whose mother was an enslaved woman;

وقيل: إذا ولدته أمتان أو ثلاث فهو المكركس.

And it is said: if two or three enslaved women bore him, he is al-mukarkas.

المكركس الذي أم أمه وأم أبيه وأم أمه وأم أبيه إماء، كأنه المردد في الهجناء.

Al-mukarkas is one whose mother, his father's mother, his mother's mother, and his father's mother's mother were all enslaved women, as if he were repeatedly mixed among the base-born.

والمكركس: المقيد؛

And al-mukarkas: the fettered one;

فهل يأكلن مالي بنو نخعية، ... لها نسب في حضرموت مكركس؟

So will the sons of Nakh'iyyah eat my wealth? ... they have a lineage in Hadramawt that is fettered/of low origin?

والكركسة: التردد.

And al-karkasah: hesitation.

والكركسة: مشية المقيد.

And al-karkasah: the gait of the fettered one.

والكركسة: تدحرج الإنسان من علو إلى سفل،

And al-karkasah: a person rolling from a high place to a low one,

وقد تكركس.

And he has rolled down.