كِسْرَى
Root: كسر
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كِسْرَى
and كَسْرَى, the former of which is the more chaste, accord. to Th and others, and it alone is allowed by Aboo-'Amr Ibn-El-'Alà, A name applied to the king of the Persians, or a surname of the kings of the Persians, like النَّجَاشِىُّ, a name of the king of Abyssinia, , arabicized from خُسْرَوْ, which means “ possessing ample dominion, ” in the Persian language: so they say: but خُسْرَوْ is itself arabicized from خُوشْ رُوْ, which means, in that language, “ goodly in countenance ”: [but that خسرو is an arabicized word may reasonably be doubted:] accord. to IDrst, it is changed into كسرى because there is no word in Arabic having the first letter with damm and ending with و; and the خ is changed into ك to shew that it is Arabicized: the pl. is أَكَاسِرَةٌ, contr. to analogy, and كَسَاسِرَةٌ and أَكَاسِرُ and كُسُورٌ, [all of which are also] contr. to analogy: by rule it should be كِسْرَوْنَ, like عِيسَوْنَ and مُوسَوْنَ.
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