كسم

See also: کسم

Egyptian Arabic

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish كسم (kesim).

Noun

كسم • (kasm) m (archaic)

1. cut, fit, shape

Derived terms

• كسمة f (kasma, “fit”)
• كسم (kassim, “to fit”, verb)
• اتكسم (itkassim, ikkassim, verb)

Verb

كسم • (kassim) II (archaic)

1. to fit, to try to apply or mould the form of to

References

• Hinds, Martin, Badawi, El-Said (1986) A Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic‎^[1], Beirut: Librairie du Liban, page 751b
• Littmann, Enno (1954) “Türkisches Sprachgut im Ägyptisch-Arabischen”, in Fritz Meier, editor, Westöstliche Abhandlungen : Rudolf Tschudi zum 70. Geburtstag überreicht von Freunden und Schülern‎^[2], Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, page 124
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “كسم”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[3], London: W.H. Allen, page 885b
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “كسم”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 969b

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• كسیم (kesim)

Etymology

كسمك (kesmek, “to cut”) +‎ ـم (-im). Some meanings are inspired by Arabic قِسْم (qism, “part”).

Noun

كسم • (kesim)

1. cut, the wise in which something is snithen
2. manner, fashion, form, habit
3. rebate, affermage fee

Descendants

• Turkish: kesim
• → Egyptian Arabic: كسم (kasm)
• → Armenian: քէսիմ (kʻēsim)
• → Bulgarian: ке́си́м (késím)
• → Macedonian: ќесим (ḱesim)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ће̑сӣм, ке̑сӣм

  Latin script: ćȇsīm, kȇsīm

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كسم”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[4], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1028a
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كسم”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[5], Vienna, column 3954
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kesim”, in Nişanyan Sözlük