ق ب س

Arabic

Root

ق ب س • (q-b-s)

1. related to things being taken from other things

Derived terms

• Form I: قَبَسَ (qabasa, “to take from, to derive, to obtain”)
  • Verbal noun: قَبْس (qabs)
  • Active participle: قَابِس (qābis)
  • Passive participle: مَقْبُوس (maqbūs)
• Form IV: أَقْبَسَ (ʔaqbasa, “to make obtain”)
  • Verbal noun: إِقْبَاس (ʔiqbās)
  • Active participle: مُقْبِس (muqbis)
  • Passive participle: مُقْبَس (muqbas)
• Form VIII: اِقْتَبَسَ (iqtabasa, “to acquire, to obtain, to derive, to take from”)
  • Verbal noun: اِقْتِبَاس (iqtibās)
  • Active participle: مُقْتَبِس (muqtabis)
  • Passive participle: مُقْتَبَس (muqtabas)

• مِقْبَس (miqbas, “firewood; socket”)
• قَابُوس (qābūs, “man of beautiful facial features”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ق ب س”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 299
• Freytag, Georg (1835) “ق ب س”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 389–390
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ق ب س”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[3], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2480–2481
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ق ب س”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 995