قشدة

Arabic

قِشْدَة

Alternative forms

• قِشْد (qišd) — rare
• قِشْطَة (qišṭa)

Etymology

From the root ق ش ط (q-š-ṭ) and a dialectal pronunciation thereof (also ك ش ط (k-š-ṭ)), denoting “to scrape”, “to strip off”, “to remove or take off”, “to skim”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /qiʃ.da/

Noun

قِشْدَة • (qišda) f

1. ream, cream

Declension

Declension of noun قِشْدَة (qišda)

Singular	singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	قِشْدَة qišda	الْقِشْدَة al-qišda	قِشْدَة qišdat
Nominative	قِشْدَةٌ qišdatun	الْقِشْدَةُ al-qišdatu	قِشْدَةُ qišdatu
Accusative	قِشْدَةً qišdatan	الْقِشْدَةَ al-qišdata	قِشْدَةَ qišdata
Genitive	قِشْدَةٍ qišdatin	الْقِشْدَةِ al-qišdati	قِشْدَةِ qišdati

Derived terms

• قِشْدِيّ (qišdiyy, “creamy; cream-coloured”)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1835) “قشدة”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 446
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “قشدة”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[2], London: Williams & Norgate, page 2525
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “قشدة”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1026