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Arabic dictionary

Dictionary Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane (d. 1876)

Entry كرس

2 كرّسهُ, (TA,) inf. n. تَكْرِيسٌ, (K, TA,) He put it, or placed it, namely, anything, one part upon another. (TA.)

He put it together, one part to another. (TA.)

He founded it, namely, a building. (K, TA.) 4 اكرست الدَّارُ The house had in it compacted dung and urine of camels or of sheep or goats: S, A, * TA:) and in like manner you say of a place: (TA:) and اكرست الدّابَّةُ The beast of carriage had upon it, (K, TA,) i. e., upon its tail, (TA,) compacted dung and urine. (K, TA.) See كِرْسٌ.

5 تكرّس It (anything) became put, or placed, one part upon another. (TA.)

It became compacted and cohering; (A, * TA;) as also ↓ تكارس. (TA.)

It (the foundation of a building) became hard and strong. (TA.)

He collected together fire-wood, &c. (Msb.) 6 تَكَاْرَسَ see 5. كِرْسٌ Compacted, or caked, or a cake of, dung and urine of camels and of sheep or goats, (S, * A, * K, * TA,) in a house, and upon the traces of men's abode: (TA:) and also, compacted clay or mud: (TA:) pl. أَكْرَاسٌ. (A, TA.) [Hence,] كِرْسُ الحَوْضِ The place in which the camels stand at the watering-trough or tank, and which in consequence becomes compacted [by the mixture of their dung and urine with the soil]. (TA.)

كِرْسُ بِنَآءٍ [The foundation, or lowest part of a building: see 2]. (TA.)

One of the أَكْرَاس [meaning series or strings of beads] of [the necklaces and similar ornaments called] قَلَائِد and وُشُح and the like: you say, قِلَادَةٌ ذَاتُ كِرْسَيْنِ [a necklace of two such series], and ذَاتُ أَكْرَاسٍ ثَلَاثَةٍ [of three such series], when you join one part to another [in several places, by larger beads: see قِلَادَةٌ مُكْرَسَةٌ, below]. (Lth, K. *) كَرِسٌ: see مُكْرِسٌ. كُرْسِىٌّ and (sometimes, S, Msb) كِرْسِىٌّ (S, Msb, K) A throne; syn. سَرِيرٌ: (K:) a chair: (TK:) a seat not larger than is sufficient for one person: (Bd, ii. 256:) [and a stool:] pl. كَرَاسِىٌّ (S, Msb, K) and sometimes كَرَاسٍ, agreeably with a rule mentioned by ISk. (Msb.) It is the place [or seat] of the king, and of the learned man: and hence, as used in the Kur ii. 256, it is explained as signifying (tropical:) Dominion: (A:) and (tropical:) the power of God, whereby He holds the heavens and the earth: (TA:) and (tropical:) knowledge: (A, K:) which last explanation is ascribed to I'Ab: but the truth is, that I'Ab explained it as there signifying the [foot-stool of God; or] place of the feet: but as to the عَرْش [of God], this is immeasurable: (Az, TA:) or it signifies the sphere of the stars. (TA, art. عرش.) [Hence, also, you say,] هُوَ مِنْ أَهْلِ الكُرْسِىِّ (tropical:) He is of the people of science. (TK.) [And hence,] الكَرَاسِىُّ is also used [elliptically] to signify (tropical:) The learned men; accord. to Ktr. (A.)

Also, A prop, or support, for a wall. (TA.)

[ذَاتُ الكُرْسِىِّ The Constellation Cassiopeia: see خَضِيبٌ.] كِرْيَاسٌ A privy on the top of the roof of a house, (S, A, * Msb, K,) with a conduit from the ground, (K,) or, as in some lexicons, to the ground: one that is below is not so called: (TA:) or the privy of an upper chamber: (MF:) of the measure فِعْيَالٌ, (Az, Msb, K,) from كِرْسٌ, meaning, “ compacted dung and urine of camels, or of sheep or goats: ” (Az, * A, * K, TA:) so called because of the filth that adheres to it, and becomes compacted: (Az, TA:) incorrectly said by some to be also written كِرْبَاسٌ, with the single-pointed letter [ب]: the pl. is كَرَايِيسُ. (TA.) كُرَّاسٌ: see what next follows. كُرَّاسَةٌ [A quire, or parcel, of paper, generally consisting of five sheets, forming ten leaves, of a book; also vulgarly called كَرَّاسَةٌ and كَرَّاسٌ;] one of what are termed ↓ كُرَّاسٌ and كَرَارِيسُ; [كُرَّاسٌ being a coll. gen. n. and كَرَارِيسُ a pl.;] (S, A, K;) a portion of a صَحِيفَة [i. e. book or volume]: (A, K:) so called because compacted: (TA:) or from تَكَرَّسَ signifying “ he collected together ” fire-wood, &c. (Msb.) You say, فِى هٰذِهِ الكُرَّاسَةِ عَشْرُ وَرَقَاتٍ [In this quire of a book are ten leaves]. (A.) And هٰذَا الكِتَابُ عِدَّةُ كَرَارِيسَ [This book is composed of a number of quires]. (A.) And قَرَأْتُ كُرَّاسَةً مِنْ كِتَابِ سِيبَوَيْهِ [I read a quire of the Book of Seebaweyh]. (A.) And التَّاجِرُ مَجْدُهُ فِى كِيسِهِ وَالعَالِمُ مَجْدُهُ فِى كَرَارِيسِهِ [The merchant's glory is in his purse, and the learned man's glory is in his quires of books]. (A.) مُكْرَسٌ: see مُكْرِسٌ.

قِلَادَةٌ مُكْرَسَةٌ and ↓ مُكَرَّسَةٌ A necklace in which the pearls or other beads are strung upon two strings, and these are joined together by divisions of large beads: so in the TS and K, excepting that in the latter, فِى خَيْطٍ is erroneously put for فِى خَيْطَيْنِ. (TA.) [See كِرْسٌ, last signification.] And [in like manner], ↓ نَظْمٌ مُكَرَّسٌ and مُتَكَرِّسٌ A string of beads one above another. (TA.) رَسْمٌ مُكْرِسٌ (S) (in the L and TA مُكْرَسٌ, but the former, being agreeable with the verb, (see 4,) is probably the right reading,] Traces of men's abode in which is a compacted mixture of dung and urine of camels or of sheep or goats. (S, L, * TA. * [And accord. to the second and third of these authorities, ↓ كَرِسٌ seems to signify the same.]) مُكَرَّسٌ: see مُكْرَسٌ: the former, in two places. مُتَكَرِّسٌ: see مُكْرَسٌ: the former, in two places.

7 اِنْكَرَسَ فِى الشَّىْءِ He entered into the thing and concealed himself. (IKtt, in TA, art. نمس.) كُرْسِىُّ الخَاتَمِ (T, K, art. بظر) The bezel of the ring. (TK.) كِرْسَنَّةٌ , thus written: (TA:) [Bitter vetch:] see خَانِقٌ. كِرْسِنِىٌّ [or كَرْسَنِىٌّ] A sort of حِمَّص. (The Minháj, in TA, art. حمص.)