See also: قفس

Arabic

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Root
ف ق س (f q s)
1 term

Pronunciation

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Verb

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فَقَسَ (faqasa) I (non-past يَفْقِسُ (yafqisu), verbal noun فُقُوس (fuqūs))

  1. to hatch
  2. to kill
  3. to creep out of the egg
  4. to expand, to blossom
  5. to prevent by force
  6. to pull down (someone) by the hair
  7. to shoot, fire off a gun
  8. to lose patience, to grow ill-tempered, to become vexed

Conjugation

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References

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Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “فقس”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary[1], London: W.H. Allen

Libyan Arabic

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ف ق س
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Pronunciation 1

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Verb

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فقس (fgaṣ) I

  1. (of the eyes) to pop

Pronunciation 2

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فقس (fguṣ) I

  1. to hatch

Pronunciation 3

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فقس (faggaṣ) II

  1. to hatch
  2. (vulgar) to bend over