ك ن س
Appearance
Arabic
[edit]Root
[edit]ك ن س • (k-n-s)
- related to sweeping
- related to retreating, hiding (derivative due to animal (gazelle) behavior of entering hiding-place with swept ground (كِنَاس) )
Derived terms
[edit]- Form I: كَنَسَ (kanasa, “to hide, to retreat”)
- Form I: كَنَسَ (kanasa, “to sweep”)
- Form V: تَكَنَّسَ (takannasa, “to hide, to retreat”)
- Verbal noun: تَكَنُّس (takannus)
- Active participle: مُتَكَنِّس (mutakannis)
- Form VIII: اِكْتَنَسَ (iktanasa, “to hide, to retreat”)
- Verbal noun: اِكْتِنَاس (iktinās)
- Active participle: مُكْتَنِس (muktanis)
- كِنَاس (kinās, “covert, den, burrow”)
- كُنَاسَة (kunāsa, “sweepings”)
- كَنَّاسَة (kannāsa, “sweeping tool”)
- كَنَّاس (kannās, “sweeper, scavenger”)
- كَنِيسَة (kanīsa, “congregation”)
- كَنِيس (kanīs, “congregation”)
- مَكْنَس (maknas, “hiding place”)
- مِكْنَسَة (miknasa, “broom”)
References
[edit]- Freytag, Georg (1837) “ك ن س”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 63–64
- Lane, Edward William (1863) “ك ن س”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[2], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2633–2634
- Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ك ن س”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 1122–1123