كسم

From Ottoman Turkish كسم‎ (kesim).

كسم • (kasm) m (archaic)

1. cut, fit, shape

• كسمة‎ (kasma, “fit”)
• كسم (kassim, “to fit”)
• اتكسم‎ (itkassim, ikassim)

كسم • (kassim) (perfect, Verb form II) (archaic)

1. to fit, to try to apply or mould the form of to

• Hinds, Martin; Badawi, El-Said (1986) A Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic, Beirut: Librairie du Liban, page 751b
• Littmann, Enno (1954), “Türkisches Sprachgut im Ägyptisch-Arabischen”, in Fritz Meier, editor, Westöstliche Abhandlungen : Rudolf Tschudi zum 70. Geburtstag überreicht von Freunden und Schülern‎, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, page 124 of 107–127
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “كسم”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, page 885b
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “كسم”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 969b

• كسیم‎ (kesim)

كسمك‎ (kesmek, “to cut”) +‎ ـم‎ (-im). Some meanings are inspired by Arabic قِسْم‎ (qism, “part”).

كسم • (kesim)

1. cut, the wise in which something is snithen
2. manner, fashion, form, habit
3. rebate, affermage fee

• Turkish: kesim
• → Egyptian Arabic: كسم‎ (kasm)
• → Armenian: քէսիմ (kʿēsim)
• → Bulgarian: ке́си́м (késím)
• → Macedonian: ќесим (ḱesim)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ће̑сӣм, ке̑сӣм

  Latin: ćȇsīm, kȇsīm

• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “كسم”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1028a
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “كسم”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3954
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “kesim”, in Nişanyan Sözlük