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كسس

Root entry · 4 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to specific types of preserved food and drink, particularly date wine and dried meat. It also extends to a physical characteristic related to teeth.

Derived headwords

الْكَسِيسnoun
  1. 1.
    date wineclassical

    A type of wine made from dates.

الْكَسِيسnoun
  1. 1.
    dried meatclassical

    Meat that is dried on stones, then pounded and preserved for provisions.

الْكَسَسnoun
  1. 1.
    short teethclassical

    The condition of having short teeth.

أَكَسّadjective
  1. 1.
    having short teethclassical

    A man who has short teeth.

Parallel reading

فإن تسق من ms0701 أعناب وج فإننا * لنا العين تجرى من كسيس ومن خمر *
If you give to drink from the grapes of Najd, then indeed * for us the spring flows with date wine and [other] wine.
والكسيس أيضا: لحم يجفف على الحجارة، ثم يدق ويتزود.
And al-kasis is also: meat dried on stones, then pounded and prepared as provisions.
والكسس: قصر الاسنان.
And al-kassas: shortness of teeth.
يقال: رجل أكس.
It is said: a man with short teeth.