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كمس

Root entry · 4 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to places and locations, particularly in a poetic context. It also extends to a technical, medical term for digested food, possibly of foreign origin.

Derived headwords

كَامِسnoun
  1. 1.
    placeclassical

    A location or a specific spot.

فلقد أرانا يا سمي بحائل، ... نرعى القري فكامسا فالأصفرا — 'By God, my namesake, he showed us in Hail... grazing the villages, then Kams, then Al-Asfar.'
كِيمُوسِيَّةnoun
  1. 1.
    need for foodclassical

    A state of requiring food and nourishment; hunger.

ليس له كيفية ولا كيموسية — 'He has no modality nor need for food.'
الكِيمُوسnoun
  1. 1.
    digested foodclassical

    In medical terminology, food that has been digested in the stomach before being expelled or transformed into blood.

هو الطعام إذا انهضم في المعدة قبل أن ينصرف عنها ويصير دما — 'It is the food when digested in the stomach before it leaves it and becomes blood.'
الكِيلُوسnoun
  1. 1.
    chyleclassical

    Also called chyle, referring to the digested food in the stomach.

ويسمونه أيضا الكيلوس — 'And they also call it chyle.'

Parallel reading

فلقد أرانا يا سمي بحائل، ... نرعى القري فكامسا فالأصفرا
By God, my namesake, he showed us in Hail... grazing the villages, then Kams, then Al-Asfar.
ليس له كيفية ولا كيموسية
He has no modality nor need for food.
الكيموسية: عبارة عن الحاجة إلى الطعام والغذاء.
Al-Kimūsiyyah: is an expression for the need for food and nourishment.
والكيموس في عبارة الأطباء: هو الطعام إذا انهضم في المعدة قبل أن ينصرف عنها ويصير دما
And al-Kimūs in the expression of physicians: it is the food when it is digested in the stomach before it leaves it and becomes blood.
ويسمونه أيضا الكيلوس.
And they also call it al-Kailūs.
قال أبو منصور: لم أجد فيه من كلام العرب المحض شيئا صحيحا
Abu Mansur said: I did not find anything sound in it from the pure speech of the Arabs.
قال؛ وأما قول الأطباء في الكيموسات وهي الطبائع الأربع فكأنها من لغات اليونانيين.
He said; as for the statement of the physicians regarding al-Kimūsāt, which are the four temperaments, it seems to be from the Greek languages.