قس

Arabic

Etymology 1

Verb

قَسَّ (qassa) I, non-past يَقُسُّ‎ (yaqussu)

  1. to seek, to pursue
  2. to strive, to aspire
Conjugation

Noun

قَسّ (qass) m

  1. verbal noun of قَسَّ (qassa) (form I)
Declension

Etymology 2

Clipping of قِسِّيس (qissīs) (spoken قَسِّيس (qassīs)), from Classical Syriac ܩܫܝܫܐ (qašīšā, priest).

Noun

قَسّ (qass) m (plural قُسُوس (qusūs) or قُسُس (qusus))

  1. (Christianity) priest, presbyter, curate, clergyman, minister, parson, prebend, rector, cassock, chaplain, padre, pastor, father, vicar
Declension

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

قِسْ (qis) (form I)

  1. second-person masculine singular active imperative of قَاسَ (qāsa)

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1835), قس”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 441
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), قس”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, pages 734–735
  • Lane, Edward William (1863), قس”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 2521
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), قس”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 835
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), قس”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1023

Persian

Etymology

Compare Kurdish quz (pussy) and Persian کس (kos, pussy).

Noun

قس (qos)

  1. (dialectal, vulgar, slang) pussy, cunt, fanny
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