ك ي س

Arabic

Root

ك ي س • (k-y-s)

1. shrewdness, wit

Derived terms

• Form I: كَاسَ (kāsa, “to be clever, to be acute in intellect, to have a sharp mind; to overcome in intellect, to surpass by shrewdness”)
  • Verbal noun: كَيْس (kays), كِيَاسَة (kiyāsa)
  • Active participle: كَائِس (kāʔis)
  • Passive participle: مَكِيس (makīs)
• Form II: كَيَّسَ (kayyasa, “to render clever, to make sharp in intellect”)
  • Verbal noun: تَكْيِيس (takyīs)
  • Active participle: مُكَيِّس (mukayyis)
  • Passive participle: مُكَيَّس (mukayyas)
• Form III: كَايَسَ (kāyasa, “to vie with in intellect, to contend with in sharpness of mind”)
  • Verbal noun: مُكَايَسَة (mukāyasa)
  • Active participle: مُكَايِس (mukāyis)
  • Passive participle: مُكَايَس (mukāyas)
• Form IV: أَكَاسَ (ʔakāsa, “to bring forth clever children”)
  • Verbal noun: إِكَاسَة (ʔikāsa)
  • Active participle: مُكِيس (mukīs)
• Form IV: أَكْيَسَ (ʔakyasa, “to bring forth clever children”)
  • Verbal noun: إِكَاسَة (ʔikāsa)
  • Active participle: مُكِيس (mukīs)
• Form V: تَكَيَّسَ (takayyasa, “to pretend sharpness of intellect”)
  • Verbal noun: تَكَيُّس (takayyus)
  • Active participle: مُتَكَيِّس (mutakayyis)

• كَيِّس (kayyis, “sharp in intellect”)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1837) “ك ي 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, page 74
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ك ي س”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[2], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2639–2640
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ك ي س”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1132