كبس

From the root ك ب س (k-b-s). The “intercalation” meaning is a semantic loan from Classical Syriac ܟܒܰܫ (kḇaš) – the etymologically corresponding verb in Syriac – and its derivatives.

كَبْس • (kabs) m

1. verbal noun of كَبَسَ (kabasa) (form I)
2. pressure, squeeze, pressing
3. raid, attack
4. pickling, preservation (in vinegar, etc.)
5. intercalation

كَبَسَ • (kabasa) I, non-past يَكْبِسُ‎ (yakbisu)

1. to press, to exert pressure, to squeeze
2. to attack, to raid
3. to intercalate
4. to pickle, to preserve (in vinegar, etc.)
5. to marinate
6. to conserve

• كَبْسَة (kabsa)

كَبَّسَ • (kabbasa) II, non-past يُكَبِّسُ‎ (yukabbisu)

1. to press hard, to squeeze hard
2. to massage

• كَابُوس (kābūs, “nightmare”)

كِبْس • (kibs) m (plural كُبُوس (kubūs))

1. earth, sludge, especially one which one presses into watercourses to control them or which divides ditches or another pressed construction
   • a. 1000, المقدسي, edited by Michael Jan de Goeje, أحسن التقاسيم في معرفة الأقاليم [ʾaḥsan at-taqāsīm fī maʿrifa al-ʾaqālīm] (Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum; 3)‎, Leiden: E. J. Brill, published 1877, 1906, page 164 a:

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From Arabic كَبَسَ (kabasa).

• IPA^(key): /ka.bas/, [ˈka.bas]

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كبس • (kabas) I (present بكسر (bikbis))

1. to press, to click

   Synonyms: ضغط (ḍaḡaṭ), عصّ (ʕaṣṣ)