قسيس

Arabic

قِسِّيس

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the Classical Syriac ܩܫܝܫܐ (priest).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /qis.siːs/

Noun

قِسِّيس (qissīs) m (plural قِسِّيسُون (qissīsūn) or قَسَاوِسَة (qasāwisa))

  1. (Christianity) priest, clergyman, pastor, parson

Declension

References

  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 275
  • Rudolph, Wilhelm (1922) Die Abhängigkeit des Qorans von Judentum und Christentum (in German), Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, page 7
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), قسيس”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1023
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