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كيت

Root entry · 5 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to filling or stuffing something, particularly a container. It also extends to making things easy or preparing them, and refers to bags or sacks. Additionally, it is used idiomatically to mean 'such and such'.

Derived headwords

كيتverb
  1. 1.
    to fillboth

    To fill a container, to stuff it.

تكييتاnoun
  1. 1.
    fillingboth

    The act of filling a container; stuffing.

الجهازnoun
  1. 1.
    making easyclassical

    To make something easy or facilitate it.

الأكياتnoun
  1. 1.
    bagsboth

    Plural of 'kīs', meaning bags or sacks.

كيت وكيتother
  1. 1.
    such and suchclassical

    An expression used to mean 'so and so' or 'this and that', referring to something unspecified.

Parallel reading

كيت الوعاء تكييتا: حشاه
To fill a container, to stuff it.
والجهاز: يسره
And 'al-jihāz' means to make it easy.
والأكيات: الأكياس
And 'al-akiyāt' are bags.
كيت وكيت، ويكسر آخرهما، أي: كذا وكذا
'Kayt wa kayt', and the last letter of both is vocalized with kasra, meaning: so and so.
والتاء فيهما هاء في الأصل
And the 'tāʼ' in both of them is originally a 'hāʼ'.