قصيل

Arabic

Etymology

The passive participle of قَصَلَ (qaṣala, “to mow, to cut off or small”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /qa.sˤiːl/

Noun

قَصِيل • (qaṣīl) m (collective, singulative قَصِيلَة f (qaṣīla), plural قُصْلَان (quṣlān))

1. shredded green barley that one gives horses to eat, bere, forage
   • a. 1135, Ibn ʿAbdūn, “Un document sur la vie urbaine et les corps de métiers à Séville au début du XII^e siècle: Le traité d’Ibn ʿAbdūn publié avec une introduction et un glossaire”, in Évariste Lévi-Provençal, editor, Journal asiatique‎^[1], number 2, published 1934, page 240 (٤٨) 5:

Declension

Declension of noun قَصِيل (qaṣīl)

Collective	basic collective triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	قَصِيل qaṣīl	الْقَصِيل al-qaṣīl	قَصِيل qaṣīl
Nominative	قَصِيلٌ qaṣīlun	الْقَصِيلُ al-qaṣīlu	قَصِيلُ qaṣīlu
Accusative	قَصِيلًا qaṣīlan	الْقَصِيلَ al-qaṣīla	قَصِيلَ qaṣīla
Genitive	قَصِيلٍ qaṣīlin	الْقَصِيلِ al-qaṣīli	قَصِيلِ qaṣīli
Singulative	singulative triptote in ـَة (-a)
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	قَصِيلَة qaṣīla	الْقَصِيلَة al-qaṣīla	قَصِيلَة qaṣīlat
Nominative	قَصِيلَةٌ qaṣīlatun	الْقَصِيلَةُ al-qaṣīlatu	قَصِيلَةُ qaṣīlatu
Accusative	قَصِيلَةً qaṣīlatan	الْقَصِيلَةَ al-qaṣīlata	قَصِيلَةَ qaṣīlata
Genitive	قَصِيلَةٍ qaṣīlatin	الْقَصِيلَةِ al-qaṣīlati	قَصِيلَةِ qaṣīlati
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	قَصِيلَتَيْن qaṣīlatayn	الْقَصِيلَتَيْن al-qaṣīlatayn	قَصِيلَتَيْ qaṣīlatay
Nominative	قَصِيلَتَانِ qaṣīlatāni	الْقَصِيلَتَانِ al-qaṣīlatāni	قَصِيلَتَا qaṣīlatā
Accusative	قَصِيلَتَيْنِ qaṣīlatayni	الْقَصِيلَتَيْنِ al-qaṣīlatayni	قَصِيلَتَيْ qaṣīlatay
Genitive	قَصِيلَتَيْنِ qaṣīlatayni	الْقَصِيلَتَيْنِ al-qaṣīlatayni	قَصِيلَتَيْ qaṣīlatay
Paucal (3-10)	sound feminine paucal
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	قَصِيلَات qaṣīlāt	الْقَصِيلَات al-qaṣīlāt	قَصِيلَات qaṣīlāt
Nominative	قَصِيلَاتٌ qaṣīlātun	الْقَصِيلَاتُ al-qaṣīlātu	قَصِيلَاتُ qaṣīlātu
Accusative	قَصِيلَاتٍ qaṣīlātin	الْقَصِيلَاتِ al-qaṣīlāti	قَصِيلَاتِ qaṣīlāti
Genitive	قَصِيلَاتٍ qaṣīlātin	الْقَصِيلَاتِ al-qaṣīlāti	قَصِيلَاتِ qaṣīlāti
Plural of variety	basic broken plural triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	قُصْلَان quṣlān	الْقُصْلَان al-quṣlān	قُصْلَان quṣlān
Nominative	قُصْلَانٌ quṣlānun	الْقُصْلَانُ al-quṣlānu	قُصْلَانُ quṣlānu
Accusative	قُصْلَانًا quṣlānan	الْقُصْلَانَ al-quṣlāna	قُصْلَانَ quṣlāna
Genitive	قُصْلَانٍ quṣlānin	الْقُصْلَانِ al-quṣlāni	قُصْلَانِ quṣlāni

Descendants

• → Asturian: alcacer
• → Galician: alcacén, alcacer, alquecer, arcacel, elcacer
• → Portuguese: alcacel, alcacer, in Old Galician-Portuguese also alcacede, alcaceira, alcaceire
• → Spanish: alcacel, alcacer, alcarcel, alcancel, in the Canaries alcaíl

References

• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 1039
• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2019), Dictionnaire des emprunts ibéro-romans. Emprunts à l’arabe et aux langues du Monde Islamique (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 73
• Corriente, Federico (2008) “قصيل”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 70a
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “قصيل”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[2] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 360a
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne, Engelmann, Wilhelm Hermann (1869) Glossaire des mots espagnols et portugais, dérivés de l’arabe‎^[3] (in French), 2^nd edition, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 78