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الكعص

Root entry · 3 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to the act of eating, with a specific mention of it being a variant of another root. It also encompasses the sounds made by small creatures like mice and chicks.

Derived headwords

الكَعْصnoun
  1. 1.
    eatingclassical

    The act of consuming food. This is noted as a linguistic variant of the root الكأص.

كَعَصَverb
  1. 1.
    to eatclassical

    To consume food. This is presented as a variant of the verb from the root الكأص.

كَعِيصnoun
  1. 1.
    sound of mouseclassical

    The characteristic vocalization or noise made by a mouse.

  2. 2.
    sound of chickclassical

    The characteristic vocalization or noise made by a young bird, a chick.

Parallel reading

الكعص، كالمنع: الأكل، لغة في الكأص.
Al-Ka's, like Al-Man', means eating, a linguistic variant of Al-Ka's.
وكعيص الفأر والفرخ: أصواتهما.
And the ka'is of the mouse and the chick: their sounds.