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ق-ص-ص

The Arabic root ق-ص-ص (q-s-s)

Form I verb قَصَّ: to cut

15 words in the dictionary are built from ق-ص-ص, including verbs in Forms I, III, VI, VIII, X. Each verb is listed with the nouns that come from it: its verbal noun (masdar), its participles, and words derived from it.

Most common

Noun
story
Noun
event
Verb · Form I
قَصَّ
to cut
Noun
مِقَصّ
scissors
Noun
قَصَّاص
one who clips or cuts often
Verb · Form I
قَصَّ
to narrate
Noun
قَصّ
clipping
Noun
قُصَاصَة
small and unwanted piece

Verbs and the nouns that come from them

قَصَّ · present يَقُصُّ
Form I · The plain action

to cut; to cut (“to remove and place in memory in order to paste at a later time”); to clip off, to shear, to cut off

قَصّ
Verbal noun
clipping
قَاصّ
Active participle
مَقْصُوص
Passive participle
مِقَصّ
Derived noun
scissors
قَصَّاص
Derived noun
one who clips or cuts often
قَصَّ · present يَقُصُّ
Form I · The plain action

to narrate, to relate, recount, to tell, to impart, to communicate (news, a story, etc.); to make a speech, to lecture, to recite; to follow one's tracks

قَصّ
Verbal noun
قَاصّ
Active participle
مَقْصُوص
Passive participle
قَاصَّ · present يُقَاصُّ
Form III · Done to or with someone

to retaliate upon, to make quit

مُقَاصَّة
Verbal noun
قِصَاص
Verbal noun
verbal noun of قَاصَّ
مُقَاصّ
Active participle
مُقَاصّ
Passive participle
تَقَاصَّ · present يَتَقَاصُّ
Form VI · Mutual action

to requite, give tit-for-tat, mutually take revenge or retaliate against each other, make it even between each other, impart equal shares to one another

تَقَاصّ
Verbal noun
مُتَقَاصّ
Active participle
اِقْتَصَّ · present يَقْتَصُّ
Form VIII · Reflexive, often idiomatic

to punish, repay, or to crop; to narrate

اِقْتِصَاص
Verbal noun
مُقْتَصّ
Active participle
مُقْتَصّ
Passive participle
اِسْتَقَصَّ · present يَسْتَقِصُّ
Form X · Seeking or considering

to ask (someone) to retaliate

اِسْتِقْصَاص
Verbal noun
مُسْتَقِصّ
Active participle
مُسْتَقَصّ
Passive participle

Other nouns and adjectives

Noun
story
Noun
event
قُصَاصَة
Noun
small and unwanted piece
قَصَّة
Noun
gypsum
قُصَاص
Noun
the part where the growth of the hair terminates and it get…

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