جص

Arabic

Etymology

Ultimately, as Classical Syriac ܓܨܐ (gaṣṣā, “gypsum”) and Middle Persian gc (gač, “gypsum”) > Persian گچ (gač, “gypsum”), from Akkadian 𒅎𒌓 (IM.BABBAR /⁠gaṣṣu⁠/, “gypsum”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒisˤsˤ/, IPA(key): /d͡ʒasˤsˤ/

Noun

جِصّ or جَصّ • (jiṣṣ or jaṣṣ) m

  1. gypsum
  2. (synecdochically)
    1. parget, plaster
    2. mortar, grout

Declension

Derived terms

  • جَصَّصَ (jaṣṣaṣa, “to apply gypsum on”)
  • جَصَّاص (jaṣṣāṣ, “gypsum-preparer”)
  • جَصَّاصَة (jaṣṣāṣa, “place where gypsum is made”)
  • جِصِّيّ (jiṣṣiyy), جَصِّيّ (jaṣṣiyy, “gypsum-related”)

Verb

جَصَّ • (jaṣṣa) I, non-past يَجُصُّ‎ (yajuṣṣu)

  1. to be bound too tightly, to the point of suffering (used of cattle)

Conjugation

References

  • “جص” in Almaany
  • “gaṣṣu”, in The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD)‎, volume 5, G, Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 1956, page 54
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 9
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “جص”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 428
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “جص”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “جص”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎ (in French), Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie
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