كُرَّاسَةٌ
Root: كرس
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كُرَّاسَةٌ
[A quire, or parcel, of paper, generally consisting of five sheets, forming ten leaves, of a book; also vulgarly called كَرَّاسَةٌ and كَرَّاسٌ;] one of what are termed
كُرَّاسٌ and كَرَارِيسُ; [كُرَّاسٌ being a coll. gen. n. and كَرَارِيسُ a pl.;] a portion of a
صَحِيفَة [i. e. book or volume]: so called because compacted: or from تَكَرَّسَ signifying “ he collected together ” fire-wood, &c. You say, فِى هٰذِهِ الكُرَّاسَةِ عَشْرُ وَرَقَاتٍ [In this quire of a book are ten leaves]. And هٰذَا الكِتَابُ عِدَّةُ
كَرَارِيسَ [This book is composed of a number of quires]. And قَرَأْتُ كُرَّاسَةً مِنْ كِتَابِ
سِيبَوَيْهِ [I read a quire of the Book of Seebaweyh]. And التَّاجِرُ مَجْدُهُ فِى كِيسِهِ وَالعَالِمُ مَجْدُهُ
فِى كَرَارِيسِهِ [The merchant's glory is in his purse, and the learned man's glory is in his quires of books].
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