مكس

Root entry · 8 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the act of taking or collecting taxes, tolls, or unjust fees, often through coercion or by an official collector. It extends to the general concept of taxation and the person who levies these charges.

Derived headwords

مَكَسَverb

1.
he haggled in sellingboth
he haggled in selling

يَمْكِسُverb

1.
to levy taxboth
Present tense of the verb 'to levy tax', indicating the ongoing action of collecting fees or tolls.

مَكْسًاnoun

1.
taxationboth
The act or process of levying and collecting taxes, tolls, or unjust fees.

مَاكَسَverb

1.
he haggledboth
he haggled
2.
he haggledboth
he haggled

مُمَاكَسَةnoun

1.
bargainingclassical
The act of haggling or engaging in protracted negotiation.

مَكَاسًاnoun

1.
bargainingclassical
A form of bargaining or haggling.

المَكْسُnoun

1.
tax collectionboth
tax collection

المَاكِسُnoun

1.
tax collectorboth
tax collector

Parallel reading

مكس في البيع يمكس بالكسر مكسا

He levied a tax on the sale, he levies with a kasra, a taxation.

وماكس مماكسة ومكاسا

And he bargained a bargaining and haggling.

والمكس أيضا: الجباية

And al-muks also: the collection of taxes.

والماكس: العشار

And al-māks: the tax collector.

لا يدخل صاحب مكس الجنة

The one who levies taxes will not enter Paradise.

والمكس: ما يأخذه العشار

And al-muks: what the tax collector takes.

أفي كل أسواق العراق إتاوة

Is it that in every market of Iraq there is a tribute?

وفي كل ما باع امرؤ مكس درهم

And in everything a man sells, there is a tax of a dirham.