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كَانِسٌ

Root: كنس

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كَانِسٌ An antelope, and a wild bull, entering his كِنَاس, i. e., his covert, or hiding-place, among trees: fem. with ة: pl. كُنَّسٌ, both of the masc. and fem., and كَوَانِسُ, of the masc., [and of the fem. also accord. to rule,] and كُنُوسٌ.
2 [Hence,] الكُنَّسُ, or الجَوَارِى الكُنَّسُ, [in the Kur, lxxxi. 16,] The stars; because they hide themselves in their place of setting: or the stars that rise running their course, and hide themselves in their places of setting: or all the stars; because they appear by night and lie hidden by day: or i. q. الخُنَّسُ, i. e., السَّيَّارَةُ, or السَّيَّارَاتُ, or الخُنَّسُ السَّيَّارَةُ, the five stars, [or planets,] Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, and Mercury; because they hide themselves in their place of setting, like antelopes in their كُنُس [or coverts]; or because they become hidden beneath the light of the sun: or the stars [meaning plants] that become hidden in their courses, and run their courses and become stationary in their places of circuiting, and then circuit [again]; every star [of those thus named] having a circuit in which it becomes stationary, and [then] revolves [again], and then it departs, returning: or the angels: or the wild bulls or cows, and the wild antelopes, that enter their كُنُس [or coverts] when the heat is vehement.
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