كنس
1 كَنَسَ, (
S,
A,
Mgh,
Msb,)
aor. ـُ (
S,
Msb,) or ـِ (
Mgh,)
inf. n. كَنْسٌ, (
S,
Mgh,
Msb,) He swept (
Mgh,
TA) a house, or chamber, (
S,
A,
Mgh,
Msb,) or place, (
TA,) with a مِكْنَسَة [or broom]. (
A,
Mgh.)
b2: مَرُّوا بِهِمْ فَكَنَسُوهُمْ (
tropical:) They passed by them and swept them away, or destroyed them;
syn. كَسَحُوهُمْ. (
A,
TA.)
A2: كَنَسَ, (
S,
A,
Mgh,
Msb,
K,)
aor. ـِ (
S,
Msb,
K,) or ـُ (
Mgh,)
inf. n. كُنُوسٌ, (
Mgh,
Msb,) He (an antelope) entered his كِنَاس, (
S,
A,
Mgh,
Msb,
K,) i. e., his covert, or hiding-place, among trees; (
S,
K;) or abode; (
Msb;) or cave; (
TA;) as also ↓ تكنّس (
S,
A,
Mgh,
K) and ↓ اكتنس;) (
A,
TA;) which two verbs are likewise said of a wild bull or cow, in the same sense. (
TA.) [Hence,] ↓ تكنّس also signifies (
tropical:) He (a man,
TA) entered the tent: (
K:) or hid himself, and entered the tent. (
TA.) And ↓ تكنّست (
tropical:) She (a woman) entered the هَوْدَج [or camel-litter]: (
K:)
app. taken from the saying of Lebeed, فَتَكَنَّسُوا قُطْنًا, meaning, and they entered هَوَادِج [or camel-litters] covered with cloths of cotton. (
TA.)
b2: [Hence also,] كَنَسَتِ النُّجُومُ, (
Zj,)
aor. ـِ (
AO,
Zj,
S,
K,)
inf. n. كُنُوسٌ, (
Lth,
Zj,) (
tropical:) The stars hid themselves in their place, or places, of setting, (
AO,
Zj,
S,
K, *) like antelopes in their كُنُس [or coverts]: (
K:) [or] continued in their courses and then departed, returning: (
Zj:) or the stars [here meaning planets] became stationary in their circuiting or revolving. (
Lth.) See كَانِسٌ.
5 تَكَنَّسَ see 1; the former, in four places.
8 إِكْتَنَسَ see 1; the former, in four places.
كِنَاسٌ A gazelle's covert, or hiding-place, among trees: (
S,
K:) so called because he sweeps (يكنس) the sand, or in the sand, [
accord. to different copies of the
K,] until he reaches the soil, or moist earth: (
K, *
TA:) or his abode: (
Msb:) or cave: (
TA:) and [in like manner]
↓ مَكْنِسٌ a place into which a gazelle or a wild bull or cow enters to protect itself therein from the heat: (
TA:)
pl. [of pauc.] أَكْنِسَةٌ (
TA) and [of mult.] كُنُسٌ and كُنَّسٌ (
K) and [
pl. pl., i. e.,
pl. of كُنُسٌ,] كُنُسَاتٌ. (
TA.) كُنَاسَةٌ Sweepings; (
S,
Mgh,
Msb,
K;) the dust of a house that is swept and thrown into a heap. (
Lh.)
b2: Also, The place of sweepings; (
Mgh;) the place where sweepings are thrown. (
TA.) كَنِيسَةٌ A place of worship (
K) of the Christians; [a Christian church:] (
S,
A,
K:) or of the Jews; (
Sgh,
K;) i. e., of the Jews only: [a Jewish synagogue;] that of Christians being called بِيعَةٌ: (
Sgh:) [Chald כְנישָׁה: (Golius:)] or both; (
Mgh,
Msb;) being sometimes applied to the former [in classical times, as it is in the present day, as well as to the latter]: (
Msb:) or of unbelievers, (
K,) absolutely: (
TA:) an arabicized word, [from the Chaldee mentioned above, or] from [the Persian word] كُنِسْتْ (
Az,
Mgh) or كَنَسْتْ (
TA) [signifying “ a firetemple ”]:
pl. كَنَائِسُ. (
A,
Msb.)
A2: A thing resembling [the kind of camel-litter called] a هَوْدَج, composed of twigs, or branches, stuck in a مَحْمِل or a رَحْل, with a cloth thrown over them, in which the rider sits in the shade and conceals himself: (
Mgh,
Msb:) of the measure فَعِيلَةٌ from كُنُوسٌ [an
inf. n. of كَنَسَ]: (
Mgh:)
pl. as above. (
Msb.) كَنَّاسٌ One who sweeps حُشُوش [meaning privies]. (
A,
TA.) كَانِسٌ An antelope, (
S,
A,
TA,) and a wild bull, (
TA,) entering his كِنَاس, (
S,
A,
TA,) i. e., his covert, or hiding-place, among trees: (
S:)
fem. with ة: (
Zj:)
pl. كُنَّسٌ, both of the
masc. and
fem., (
Zj,) and كَوَانِسُ, of the
masc., (
A,) [and of the
fem. also
accord. to rule,] and كُنُوسٌ. (
TA.)
b2: [Hence,] الكُنَّسُ, (
S,) or الجَوَارِى الكُنَّسُ, (
K,) [in the
Kur, lxxxi. 16,] (
tropical:) The stars; because they hide themselves in their place of setting: (
AO,
S:) or the stars that rise running their course, and hide themselves in their places of setting: (
Zj:) or all the stars; because they appear by night and lie hidden by day: (
K:) or
i. q. الخُنَّسُ, (
K,
TA,) i. e., السَّيَّارَةُ, (
TA,) or السَّيَّارَاتُ, (
Bd,) or الخُنَّسُ السَّيَّارَةُ, (
S,) the five stars, [or planets,] Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, and Mercury; (
TA;) because they hide themselves in their place of setting, like antelopes in their كُنُس [or coverts]; (
K;) or because they become hidden beneath the light of the sun: (
Bd:) or the stars [meaning plants] that become hidden in their courses, and run their courses and become stationary in their places of circuiting, and then circuit [again]; every star [of those thus named] having a circuit in which it becomes stationary, and [then] revolves [again], and then it departs, returning: (
Lth:) or the angels: (
K:) or the wild bulls or cows, and the wild antelopes, (
Zj,
K,) that enter their كُنُس [or coverts] when the heat is vehement. (
Zj.) مَكْنِسٌ: [
pl. مَكَانِسُ:] see كِنَاسٌ.
b2: [Hence,] مَكَانِسُ الرَّيْبِ (assumed
tropical:) The places of suspicion. (
TA.) مِكْنَسَةٌ A broom; a thing with which one sweeps: (
S,
A,
Msb:)
pl. مَكَانِسُ. (
A,
TA.) مُكَنِّسٌ A maker of brooms. (Golius, from
Meyd.)
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