Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

كَسَبَ, aor. ـِ {يَكْسِبُ}, inf. n. كَسْبٌ (Ṣ, Ḳ, Mṣb) and كِسْبٌ (Ḳ), He collected [wealth, &c.]; (Ṣ, Ḳ;) as alsoاكتسبهُ↓. (Ṣ.) This is the original signification. (Ṣ.)

[Hence,] He gained, acquired, or earned, wealth or the like; as alsoاكتسب↓. (Mṣb.) كَسَبْتُ شَيْئًا andاكْتَسَبْتُهُ↓ are syn., [signifying I gained a thing]. (Ṣ.)

Hence [also], كَسَبَ andاكتسب↓ (Ṣ, Ḳ, Mṣb) andتكسّب↓ (Ḳ) He sought, sought after, or sought to gain, sustenance, or the like, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) for his family: (Mṣb:) or كَسَبَ signifies he got, or obtained, or gained, acquired, or earned, [sustenance,, &c.]; andاكتسب↓, he applied himself with art and diligence [to get, or obtain, or gain, acquire, or earn, sustenance, &c.; he laboured to earn, or gain, sustenance]: (Sb, Ḳ:) [so] also تكسّب↓ is explained by تَكَلَّفَ الكَسْبَ he applied himself, as to a task, to gain, &c. (Ṣ.)

كَسَبَ is also said to signify, and originally, both he sought, or sought after, [sustenance]; and he laboured in seeking, or seeking after, sustenance. (TA.)

اكتسب↓ has a more intensive signification than كَسَبَ; and hence, in the last verse of the second chap. of the Ḳur [لَهَا مَا كَسَبَتْ وَعَلَيْهَا مَا ٱكْتَسَبَتْ To it shall be given what reward it hath earned, and upon it shall be executed what punishment it hath drawn upon itself], the latter is used with reference to what is good; and the former, with reference to what is evil. (IJ.) You say, كَسَبَ خَيْرًا ‡ [He gained, or earned, or did, good]: andاكتسب↓ شَرًّا ‡ [He gained, or earned, or did, evil]. (A.)

[This distinction, however, is not always observed: for] كَسَبَ signifies, He did either a good or an evil deed: [because he who does so earns, or draws upon himself, reward or punishment.] (Jel in ii. 281; and iii. 24;, &c.) Andاكتسب↓ He committed an act of which he was accusable. (Jel in xxxiii. 58.) كَسَبَ إِثْمًا andاكتسبهُ↓ signify He [committed, or] burdened himself with (تَحَمَّلَ), a sin, or crime. (Mṣb.)

كَسَبَهُ مَالًا, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) andاكسبهُ↓ مالا, (IAạr, IAth, Ḳ,) but the former is the more approved: the latter is by Fr and some others rejected: (TA:) He caused him to gain, acquire, or earn, wealth: (IAth, Mṣb:) or he assisted him to gain, acquire, or earn, wealth. (IAth.) كسبهُ عِلْمًا He caused him to gain, or acquire, knowledge. (Mṣb.) [In like manner,]اسْتَكْسَبْتُ↓ العَبْدَ I caused the slave to gain, or make gain; the verb having here the sense of the measure أَفْعَلْتُهُ; like as اِسْتَخْرَجْتُهُ signifies أَخْرَجْتُهُ. (Mṣb.) [See an ex. voce أَدِيمٌ.]

نَهَى عَنْ كَسْبِ الإِمَاءِ [He (Moḥammad) forbade the making female slaves to earn money, or the like, (by prostitution)]. (TA, from a trad.)

مَا كَسَبَ in the Ḳur cxi, 2, is said to signify His children. A man's children are among the things termed his كَسْب. (TA.)

كَسَبَهُ عَجَبًا It occasioned, or caused, him to wonder. (TA, voce أَعْجَبَ.)

كَسْبٌ inf. n. of 1. q. v.

فُلَانٌ طَيِّبُ الكَسْبِ, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) andالمَكْسَبِ↓, andالمَكْسِبِ↓, (Ḳ,) andالمَكْسِبَةِ↓, andالكِسْبَةِ↓, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) andالكَسِيبَةِ↓, (IM,) [Such a one makes good gain: كَسْبٌ, &c. signifying gain, acquisition, or earning: and also a deed, whether good or evil].

كُسْبٌ i. q. كُنجارق [or كَنْجَارَهُ], a Persian word, called by some of the people of Es-Sawád كُسْبَج [or كُسْبَه; i. e., The dregs of sesamegrain, or the like, from which the oil has been expressed]; (TA;) dregs remaining after the expression of oil: (Ṣ, Ḳ:) [as also كُزْبٌ:] from the Persian كشب, (AM,) [or rather كُسْبَه, or كُسْبَج]. See also تَخٌّ.

كَسَابِ The wolf. (L, Ḳ.)

A name of a bitch: (Ṣ:) one of the names of the bitch: (ISd:) as alsoكَسْبَةُ↓: (Ḳ:) as كُسَيْبٌ↓ is a name of the dog; i. e., of the male: (Ḳ:) names thus used as ominous of gain, [or of capturing game]: (IM:) كَسَابِ, as a name of a hunting bitch, means كَاسِبَةٌ. (TA, art. برح.)

كَسُوبٌ [so in the copies of the Ḳ in my hands; but by the place in which it is mentioned in the TA, it is implied that it is كَسُّوبٌ↓: see also لَسُوبٌ] A thing; anything. مَا لَهُ كَسُوبٌ He has not anything. (Ḳ.)

رَجُلٌ كَسُوبٌ, andكَسَّابٌ↓, A man who makes much gain. (Ḳ.)

كُسَيْبٌ: see كَسَابِ.

إِبْنُ الكُسَيْبِ Bastard. (Ḳ.)

كَسُّوبٌ A certain plant. (Ḳ.)

See also كَسُوبٌ.

الكَوَاسِبُ i. q. الجَوَارِحُ, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) here meaning The members (either of a man or of a bird) by means of which is gained, acquired, or earned, sustenance, or the like. (MF.) [The explanation in the TA, الجَوَارِحُ مِنَ الإِنْسَانِ وَالطَّيْرِ, seems, at first sight, to signify preyers, whether men or birds: but this meaning I do not think to be the one intended.]

أَبُو كَاسِبٍ The wolf. (Ḳ.)

اِكْتِسَابِىٌّ [Acquired knowledge, such as is acquired by study: as alsoكَسْبِىٌّ↓:] opp. to ضَرُورِىٌّ as meaning [natural or instinctive, or] such as the creature has by [Divine] appointment. (Kull p. 232.)