ق ص ص

Arabic

Etymology

Compare Hebrew ק־צ־ץ.

Root

ق ص ص • (q-ṣ-ṣ)

1. related to clipping

Derived terms

• Form I: قَصَّ (qaṣṣa, “to cut, to clip; to narrate”)
  • Verbal noun: قَصّ (qaṣṣ)
  • Active participle: قَاصّ (qāṣṣ)
  • Passive participle: مَقْصُوص (maqṣūṣ)
• Form II: قَصَّصَ (qaṣṣaṣa, “to cut”)
  • Verbal noun: تَقْصِيص (taqṣīṣ)
  • Active participle: مُقَصِّص (muqaṣṣiṣ)
  • Passive participle: مُقَصَّص (muqaṣṣaṣ)
• Form III: قَاصَّ (qāṣṣa, “to retaliate upon”)
  • Verbal noun: مُقَاصَّة (muqāṣṣa)
  • Active participle: مُقَاصّ (muqāṣṣ)
  • Passive participle: مُقَاصّ (muqāṣṣ)
• Form IV: أَقَصَّ (ʔaqaṣṣa, “to cause making cuts”)
  • Verbal noun: إِقْصَاص (ʔiqṣāṣ)
  • Active participle: مُقِصّ (muqiṣṣ)
  • Passive participle: مُقَصّ (muqaṣṣ)
• Form V: تَقَصَّصَ (taqaṣṣaṣa, “to follow, to persecute”)
  • Verbal noun: تَقَصُّص (taqaṣṣuṣ)
  • Active participle: مُتَقَصِّص (mutaqaṣṣiṣ)
  • Passive participle: مُتَقَصَّص (mutaqaṣṣaṣ)
• Form VI: تَقَاصَّ (taqāṣṣa, “to retaliate upon each other”)
  • Verbal noun: تَقَاصّ (taqāṣṣ)
  • Active participle: مُتَقَاصّ (mutaqāṣṣ)
• Form VIII: اِقْتَصَّ (iqtaṣṣa, “to follow, to persecute; to become clipped; to retaliate”)
  • Verbal noun: اِقْتِصَاص (iqtiṣāṣ)
  • Active participle: مُقْتَصّ (muqtaṣṣ)
  • Passive participle: مُقْتَصّ (muqtaṣṣ)
• Form X: اِسْتَقَصَّ (istaqaṣṣa, “to demand retaliation from”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِقْصَاص (istiqṣāṣ)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَقِصّ (mustaqiṣṣ)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَقَصّ (mustaqaṣṣ)

• قَصَص (qaṣaṣ)
• قَصَّاص (qaṣṣāṣ, “who cuts or narrates much”)
• قُصَاص (quṣāṣ, “the part where the growth of the hair terminates and it gets cut”)
• قُصَاصَة (quṣāṣa, “clippings”)
• قَصَّاصَة (qaṣṣāṣa, “clipping machine”)
• مِقَصّ (miqaṣṣ, “scissors”)
• أُقْصُوصَة (ʔuqṣūṣa, “tale, narration”)
• قِصَّة (qiṣṣa, “mode of clipping; tale, narration”)
• قُصَّة (quṣṣa, “piece of hair that sticks out so it would be cut”)
• قَصِيصَة (qaṣīṣa, “camel or horse used for following things; Erysimum gen. et spp.”)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1835) “ق ص ص”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 449–450
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ق ص ص”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[2], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2526–2528
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ق ص ص”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 1027–1028