قسي

Arabic

Etymology 1

Root
ق س و (q-s-w)

Adjective

قَسِيّ • (qasiyy)

  1. firm, hard, dure
Declension

Etymology 2

Possibly from Latin cassus (vain). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

قَسِّيّ • (qassiyy) m

  1. coins from bad silver
    • 7th century CE, Ṣaḥīḥ al-Buḵāriyy, 77:80:
      نَهَانَا النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ عَنْ سَبْعٍ نَهَى عَنْ خَاتَمِ الذَّهَبِ ـ أَوْ قَالَ حَلْقَةِ الذَّهَبِ ـ وَعَنِ الْحَرِيرِ، وَالإِسْتَبْرَقِ، وَالدِّيبَاجِ، وَالْمِيثَرَةِ الْحَمْرَاءِ، وَالْقَسِّيِّ، وَآنِيَةِ الْفِضَّةِ،
      nahānā n-nabiyyu ṣallā llāhu ʕalay-hi wasallama ʕan sabʕin nahā ʕan ḵātami ḏ-ḏahabi - ʔaw qāla ḥalqati ḏ-ḏahabi - wa-ʕani l-ḥarīri, wa-l-ʔistabraqi, wa-d-dībāji, wa-l-mīṯarati l-ḥamrāʔi, wa-l-qassiyyi, wa-ʔāniyati l-fiḍḍati,
      The Prophet (PBUH) forbade us seven things, signets of gold, silk, brocade, silk brocade, red saddle pillows, fake silver coins, and silverware.
Declension

Verb

قُسِّي • (qussī) (form I)

  1. second-person feminine singular active imperative of قَسَّ (qassa)

References

  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 196
  • Freytag, Georg (1835) “قسي”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 445a
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