Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane (d. 1876) المعجم العربي الإنجليزي لإدوارد وليام لين

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كنث

Entries on كنث in 5 Arabic dictionaries by the authors Murtaḍa al-Zabīdī, Tāj al-ʿArūs fī Jawāhir al-Qamūs, Al-Khalīl b. Aḥmad al-Farāhīdī, Kitāb al-ʿAin, Ibn Manẓūr, Lisān al-ʿArab, and 2 more

كنث



كُنْثَةٌ A نَوَرْدجَة (in the TA, نَوَرْدَحَة, with ح unpointed,) made of myrtle, and of the branches of the [kind of willow called] خِلَاف (spread out, TA), upon which sweet-smelling plants are arranged, or disposed, in regular series, and which is then folded: (Lth, K:) the Nabathean word is كنثا. (L.) It is a circular thing (دَائِرَة) of myrtle, and of branches of willow, upon which sweet-smelling plants are disposed, or arranged, and which is then folded like a volume, or roll, and made in the form of a basket: the damsels prepare this for ornament in the days of the springseason, and amuse themselves with it. نوردجة is an arabicized word, from the Persian نَوَرْدهْ, pass. part. n. of نَوَرْدِيدَنْ, and meaning “ folded, ” or “ twisted ” (TK, [as explained to me by a very learned Turk, who, however, thinks the words not very clear.])

كوث

Entries on كوث in 8 Arabic dictionaries by the authors Al-Ṣāḥib bin ʿAbbād, Al-Muḥīṭ fī l-Lugha, Murtaḍa al-Zabīdī, Tāj al-ʿArūs fī Jawāhir al-Qamūs, Ibn Sīda al-Mursī, Al-Muḥkam wa-l-Muḥīṭ al-Aʿẓam, and 5 more

كوث

2 كوّث, inf. n. تَكْوِيثٌ, It (growing corn or the like) became composed of four leaves, and of five. (En-Nadr, K.) A2: كوّث بِغَائِطِهِ, inf. n. تَكْوِيثٌ, He voided his excrement [in form] resembling the heads of hares, or rabbits. (K.) كَاثٌ i. q. كَاثٌّ, [q. v. in art. كث]. (K.) كَوْثٌ A قَفْش, or kind of short boot: (AM, K:) app. an arabicized word. (AM, L.) كَوْثَةٌ What is composed of four leaves, and of five: referring to growing corn and the like: n. un. of كَوْثٌ. (TA.) A2: كَوْثَةٌ, or ↓ كُوثَةٌ, [as in different copies of the K, the latter being the reading in the TA, which mentions كويثة as another reading,] Abundance of herbage, or of the goods, conveniences, or comforts, of life; plenty; fruitfulness. (K.) كُوْثَةٌ: see كَوْثَةٌ.

كُوِثِىٌّ Short: like كُوتِىٌّ [q. v.]. (T.)
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