Root

ك ل س

2 verbs · 8 nouns and adjectives

Verbs

Nouns and adjectives

Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 8 entries
  • كَلَسَ Form I Open entry
    : see 2.
  • كلّس Form II He plastered
    , inf. n. تَكْلِيسٌ, He plastered (طَرَّ) a building with كِلْس; as also ↓ كَلَسَ, inf. n. كَلْسٌ: he made smooth [with plaster]: when a thing is thickly plastered, it is termed مُقَرْمَدٌ. (TA.) See كِلْسٌ. ― -b2- As used by the alchemists, [He calcined a substance;] he dissolved a body so that it became like كِلْس. (TA.)
  • كِلْسٌ Quick time, and the mixtures thereof, with which are plastered tanks, or cisterns, and baths, &c
    (S, K) and by poetic licence. ↓ كِلِّسٌ (IJ) i. q. صَارُوجٌ [i. e. Quick time, and the mixtures thereof, with which are plastered tanks, or cisterns, and baths, &c.], (S, K.) or the like thereof, (TA,) with which one builds: (S, TA:) or that with which a wall, or the inside of a palace or the like, is plastered, resembling جِص [or gypsum], without baked bricks. (TA.) A poet says, (S,) namely 'Adee Ibn-Zeyd, describing El-Hadr, a city between the Tigris and Euphrates, (TA,) " شَادَهُ مَرْمَرًا وَجَلَّلَهُ كِلْ سًا فَلِلطَّيْرِ فِى ذُرَاهُ وُكُورُ " [He raised it high, of marble, and covered it with quick time, and there were nests for the birds in its tops]: or, accord. to As, the right reading is وَخَلَّلَهُ كِلْسًا, with خ, meaning, and put صاروج into the interstices of its stones; and he used to laugh at him who related it in the former manner, with ج. (TA.) But see 2.
  • كِلِّسٌ Open entry
    : see كِلْسٌ.
  • كَلَّاسٌ Open entry
    : see مُكَلِّسٌ.
  • كَلَّاسَةٌ A time-kiln
    [ A time-kiln: so in the present day.]
  • كَيْلُوسٌ Chyle
    [Chyle; from the Greek χυλός;] a term applied by the physicians to the food when it is digested in the stomach before it departs thence and becomes blood; also called كَيْمُوسٌ. (L.) [But the latter word more properly signifies “ chyme, ” and in this sense is used by modern physicians.]
  • مُكَلِّسٌ A lime-burner
    A lime-burner; (Golius, on the authority of Meyd;) [as also ↓ كَلَّاسٌ: or this latter signifies a seller of quick lime.]

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