ك ن ز

Arabic

Etymology

All from the borrowing كَنْز (kanz).

Root

ك ن ز • (k-n-z)

1. makes words to do with hoarding, treasuring

Derived terms

• Form I: كَنَزَ (kanaza, “to bury in the ground; to hoard together, to amass”)
  • Verbal noun: كَنْز (kanz)
  • Active participle: كَانِز (kāniz)
  • Passive participle: مَكْنُوز (maknūz)
• Form VIII: اِكْتَنَزَ (iktanaza, “to pack closely, to compact”)
  • Verbal noun: اِكْتِنَاز (iktināz)
  • Active participle: مُكْتَنِز (muktaniz)
  • Passive participle: مُكْتَنَز (muktanaz)

• كَنْز (kanz, “treasure”)
• كِنَاز (kināz, “carnous, of compacted flesh”)
• كَنِيز (kanīz, “canned dates”)
• كَنَّاز (kannāz, “treasurer”)
• كَنِز (kaniz, “of a firm texture, carnous”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ك ن ز”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 493
• Freytag, Georg (1837) “ك ن ز”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 63
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ك ن ز”, 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^[3] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 934
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ك ن ز”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[4], London: Williams & Norgate, page 2633
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “كنز”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 987