كعك

Root entry · 2 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns a type of bread or baked good, often ring-shaped and hollow. It also refers to the person who makes it and places associated with its sale.

Derived headwords

الكَعْكnoun

1.
Bread, baked goodboth
A well-known type of bread or baked good, often ring-shaped and hollow. It is sometimes described as hard or dry bread.
2.
Persian loanwordclassical
Considered by some lexicographers to be a Persian word ('kak') that was Arabized.

الكَعْكِيّnoun

1.
Baker of ka'kboth
A person who makes or sells ka'k (the baked good).

Parallel reading

الكَعْك: خبز، معروف

Al-ka'k: bread, well-known.

قال الجوهري: فارسي معرب وأنشد للراجز: يا حبذا الكعك بلحم مثرود وخشكنان مع سويق مقنود

Al-Jawhari said: It is an Arabized Persian word. And he recited for a poet: How wonderful is al-ka'k with stewed meat, and khashkanan with sweetened suwaik.

وقال الصاغاني: هو تعريب كاك

And Al-Saghani said: It is the Arabization of 'kak'.

وقال الليث: أظنه معربا

And Al-Layth said: I think it is Arabized.

وقال غيره: هو الخبز اليابس

And others said: It is dry bread.

والكعكي: من يصنع ذلك

And al-ka'ki: one who makes that.

ويطلق الآن الكعك على ما يصنع من الخبز كالحلقة أجوف

And now al-ka'k is used for what is made from bread like a hollow ring.

وأجوده ما جب من الشام ويتهادى به

And its best is what is brought from Sham and exchanged as gifts.

وسوق الكعكيين مشهور بمصر

And the market of the ka'k makers is famous in Egypt.

وأبو القاسم مسلم بن أحمد الدمشقي الكعكي، حدث عن ابن أبي نصر

And Abu al-Qasim Muslim bin Ahmad al-Dimashqi al-Ka'ki, narrated from Ibn Abi Nasr.