كسر

From the root ك س ر (k s r), related to breaking.

• IPA^(key): /ka.sa.ra/

كَسَرَ • (kasara) I (non-past يَكْسِرُ (yaksiru), verbal noun كَسْر (kasr))

1. (transitive) to break, to crash, to smash
2. (transitive) to defeat, to rout
3. (transitive, linguistics) to mark or pronounce (a consonant) with a kasra

Verbal noun of كَسَرَ (kasara, “to break”).

كَسْر • (kasr) m (plural كُسُور (kusūr) or كُسُورَات (kusūrāt))

2. verbal noun of كَسَرَ (kasara) (form I)
3. breach, fracture
4. breakage
5. (arithmetic) fraction
6. contrition, affliction
7. (linguistics) the sound of short /i/

According to Wehr, the plural كُسُورَات (kusūrāt) is used in the sense “fractions”.

• كَسْرَة (kasra)

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “كسر”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[1], London: W.H. Allen

Intensive form II verb derived from form I كَسَرَ (kasara, “to break”).

• IPA^(key): /kas.sa.ra/

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كَسَّرَ • (kassara) II (non-past يُكَسِّرُ (yukassiru), verbal noun تَكْسِير (taksīr))

1. (transitive) to break into pieces, to shatter, to smash
2. (Arabic grammar, transitive) to turn into a broken plural

• Wehr, Hans (1979) “كسر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *keser (“adze”), a development of *kes- (“to cut”), whence كسمك (kesmek, “to cut”).

كسر • (keser)

1. adze, a cutting tool that has a curved blade set at a right angle to the handle

   Synonym: فاس (fas)

• Turkish: keser
• → Armenian: քէսէր (kʻēsēr)

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “keser1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2567
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “كسر”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[2], Vienna: F. Beck, page 390a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كسر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[3] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1026
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Securis”, 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^[4], Vienna, column 1530
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كسر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[5], Vienna, column 3950
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “keser”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كسر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1547

From Arabic كَسَرَ (kasara).

• IPA^(key): /ka.sar/, [ˈka.sar]

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كسر • (kasar) I (present بكسر (biksir))

1. to break
2. to defy