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كَسْرٌ

Root: كسر

Full Definition

كَسْرٌ : see كِسْرٌ, throughout.
2 A fraction, or broken part of an integral, as the half, and the tenth, and the fifth; what does not amount to an integral portion: pl. كُسُورٌ. You say, ضَرَبَ الحُسَّابُ الكُسُورَ بَعْضَهَا فِى بَعْضٍ [The calculator multiplied the fractions together].
3 Little in quantity or number: as though it were a fraction of much.
4 A crease, wrinkle, ply plait, or fold, in skin, and in a garment or piece of cloth; (JK, S, * K, * voce غَرٌّ, in the CK غُرّ; and so accord. to the explanation of the pl. in the present art. in the TA;) as also مَكْسِرٌ : (accord. to the explanations of its pl. in the S, Mgh, Msb voce غَضْنٌ:) pl. of the former كُسُورٌ: (JK, S, voce غَرٌّ; and TA in the present art.;) and of the latter, مَكَاسِرُ. (S, Mgh, Msb, voce غَضْنٌ; &c.)
5 See also كُسُورٌ, below.

def.2 [As a conventional term in grammar, A vowel-sound, well known; the sign for which is termed كَسْرَةٌ .]
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