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تكيّس

Root: كيس

Form: 5

Full Definition

تكيّسV He affected acuteness or sharpness or quickness of intellect, shrewdness, cleverness, ingeniousness, skilfulness, knowledge, or intelligence: [see تَعَقَّلَ:] or did so, not having it: syn. تَظَرَّفَ: he feigned, or made a show of, كَيْس [i. e. acuteness or sharpness or quickness of intellect; &c.].
2 See also 1.

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