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الكريص

Root entry · 10 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns a type of cheese or curdled milk product, its preparation, and related actions like pounding or mixing. It also extends to terms for containers used with milk and the act of gathering.

Derived headwords

الكَرِيصnoun
  1. 1.
    Curdled milk productboth

    A type of cheese or curdled milk, often made with specific herbs or chickpeas, but not all types of cheese.

حَمْصِيصnoun
  1. 1.
    Chickpeasclassical

    A type of legume, specifically chickpeas, mentioned as an ingredient in the preparation of 'karis'.

حُمَاضnoun
  1. 1.
    Sorrelclassical

    A plant, sorrel, which is cooked with milk and then dried to be eaten in summer.

يُكْرَصverb
  1. 1.
    to be mixedclassical

    Passive form of 'karasa', meaning to be mixed, referring to the curdled milk product being mixed with dates.

كَرِصَverb
  1. 1.
    to mixclassical

    To mix curdled milk and dates together.

يَكْرُصُهُverb
  1. 1.
    to pound itclassical

    To pound or crush something, specifically referring to pounding the curdled milk product.

دَقَّverb
  1. 1.
    to poundboth

    To pound or crush, used as a synonym for 'karasa' in the context of preparing the curdled milk.

المِكْرَصnoun
  1. 1.
    Milk containerclassical

    A vessel or waterskin used for milking or holding milk.

تَكْرِيصًاnoun
  1. 1.
    eating the karisclassical

    The act of eating the curdled milk product known as 'karis'.

الاكْتِرَاصnoun
  1. 1.
    gatheringclassical

    The act of gathering or collecting, possibly referring to collecting food items.

Parallel reading

الأقط يكثر مع الطراثيث، أو مع الحمصيص، لا كل أقط.
Curdled milk is abundant with herbs, or with chickpeas, not all curdled milk.
وإنما حمرته لأنه لم يذكر سوى لفظة مختلة، والذخيرة، وأن يطبخ الحماض باللبن، فيجفف، فيؤكل في القيظ، أو يكرص: أي: يخلط الأقط والتمر، والموضع يتخذ فيه الأقط.
Its error is because it only mentioned a defective word, and the ذخيرة, and that sorrel is cooked with milk, then dried, to be eaten in the heat, or it is mixed: meaning: curdled milk and dates are mixed, and the place where curdled milk is made.
وقد كرصه يكرصه: دقه.
And he pounded it, he pounds it: meaning, he crushed it.
والمكرص، كمنبر: إناء، أو سقاء يحلب فيه اللبن.
And al-mikras, like minbar: a vessel, or a waterskin in which milk is milked.
وكرص تكريصا: أكل الكريص.
And karasa, takrisan: meaning, he ate the karis.
والاكتراص: الجمع.
And al-iktiras: meaning, the gathering.