مقص

Tool noun from the verb قَصَّ (qaṣṣa, “to cut”).

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• IPA^(key): /mi.qasˤsˤ/

مِقَصّ • (miqaṣṣ) m (plural مِقَصَّات (miqaṣṣāt) or مَقَاصّ (maqāṣṣ))

1. scissors
2. a clipping tool

   nail clipper/clippers

   مِقَصُّ أَظَافِرَ

   miqaṣṣu ʔaẓāfira

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• Egyptian Arabic: مقص (maʔáṣṣ)
• Hijazi Arabic: مقص (magaṣṣ)
• Maltese: mqass
• Moroccan Arabic: مقص (mqaṣṣ)
• → Hausa: àlmakàshī
  • → Yoruba: àlùmọ́gàjí
• → Northern Kurdish: meqes
• → Ottoman Turkish: مقص (makas), مقاص (makas)
  • Turkish: makas
  • → Armenian: մախաս (maxas), մախկազ (maxkaz)
  • → Romanian: macaz
• → Swahili: mkasi

From Arabic مِقَصّ (miqaṣṣ).

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مقص • (maʾáṣṣ) m

1. scissors

From Arabic مِقَصّ (miqaṣṣ).

• IPA^(key): /ma.ɡasˤsˤ/

مقص • (magaṣṣ) m (plural مقصات (magaṣṣāt))

1. scissors

From Arabic مِقَصّ (miqaṣṣ).

• IPA^(key): /mqasˤː/

مقص • (mqaṣṣ) m (plural مقاص (mqāṣṣ))

1. scissors

• مقص الضفار (mqaṣṣ eḍ-ḍfār, “nail clipper”)

 

• مقاص (makas)

Borrowed from Arabic مِقَصّ (miqaṣṣ, “scissors”).

مقص • (makas) (definite accusative مقصی (makası), plural مقصلر (makaslar))

1. scissors, shears, a tool used for cutting consisting of two crossing blades
2. any combination of metal or timber somewhat resembling a pair of scissors in form
3. shears, an apparatus consisting of two or more spars used for raising heavy weights
4. (architecture) truss, a triangular structure made of beams and used to support a roof

   Synonym: چاتی (çatı)

• Turkish: makas
• → Armenian: մախաս (maxas), մախկազ (maxkaz)
• → Romanian: macaz

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “makas”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3026
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “مقص”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 455a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مقص”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1209
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Forfex”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 601
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مقص”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4841
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “makas”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مقص”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1944