کس
Persian
Etymology 1
From Middle Persian AYŠ (kas, “person, somebody”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [kas]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [kʰʲæs]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [kʰäs]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | kas |
Dari reading? | kas |
Iranian reading? | kas |
Tajik reading? | kas |
Noun
کس • (kas) (plural کسان (kasân))
- (archaic) person
- one, person, somebody (in relative clauses)
- c. 1260, Rumi, “2:1080−1081”, in The Masnavi:
- چون کسی کاو از مرض گل داشت دوست، گر چه پندارد که آن خود قوت اوست، قوت اصلی را فرامش کرده است، روی در قوت مرض آورده است.
- čon kas-i k-u az maraz gel dâšt dust, gar če pendârad ke ân xod qut-e u-st, qut-e asli-râ farâmoš karde ast, ruy dar qut-e maraz âvorde ast.
- As [in the case of] one who from disease has become fond of [eating] clay—though he may suppose that that [clay] is indeed his [natural] food, he has [in reality] forgotten his original food and has betaken himself to the food of disease.
Related terms
Etymology 2
From Proto-Indo-European *kuḱis (“(female) pubic hair; vulva”). Cognate with Northern Kurdish quz (“vagina, vulva, cunt, pussy”), Hawrami [script needed] (kʷsî, “vulva”), Lithuanian kūšỹs (“pubic hair, vulva”) and Latvian kūsis (“pubic hair, vulva”). Possibly a euphemism from the older meaning "belly", preserved in Sanskrit कुक्षि (kukṣí, “belly”). Old Armenian կոյս (koys, “virgin”) may be an Iranian borrowing. Note also Ancient Greek κυσός (kusós, “vagina; anus”).
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [kus]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [kʰos]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [kʰus]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | kus |
Dari reading? | kus |
Iranian reading? | kos |
Tajik reading? | kus |
Noun
کس • (kos) (plural کسها (kos-hâ))
Descendants
References
- Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “quz”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary[1], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 498b
- Edelʹman, D. I. (2011) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume IV, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 411–412
- Horn, Paul (1893) Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, § 852, page 190
- Hübschmann, Heinrich (1895) Persische Studien [Persian Studies] (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, page 87
- Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q., editors (1997), Encyclopedia of Indo-European culture, London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, page 507
Urdu
Etymology
From Classical Persian کُس (kus, “pussy, cunt”).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /kʊs/
Pronoun
کس • (kis) (Hindi spelling किस)
Noun
کس • (kus) f (Hindi spelling कुस)
Derived terms
- کُس مَرانی (kus-marānī, “haroltry”)
References
- “کس”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “کس”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John Thompson (1884) “کس”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC
- “کس”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
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