Arabic root

ك-ا-س

Kaf-Alif-Sin

1 word from this root family

About this root

Kaf-Alif-Sin (ك-ا-س) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: kaʾs (glass (drinking glass)).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 6 times in 6 verses, across 5 of the 114 suras. The first is in 37:45. The form كَأْس (glass (drinking glass)) accounts for all of them.

Themes: Dining, Home

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
كَأْس kaʾs	glass (drinking glass)	noun, A1	6×	At the Restaurant - Part 1

“In the Quran” counts every occurrence of that dictionary form, in any of its senses.

In the Quran

يُطَافُ عَلَيْهِم بِكَأْسٍ مِّن مَّعِينٍۭ

A cup from a gushing spring is brought round for them,

Quran 37:45

يَتَنَـٰزَعُونَ فِيهَا كَأْسًا لَّا لَغْوٌ فِيهَا وَلَا تَأْثِيمٌ

There they pass from hand to hand a cup wherein is neither vanity nor cause of sin.

Quran 52:23

بِأَكْوَابٍ وَأَبَارِيقَ وَكَأْسٍ مِّن مَّعِينٍ

With bowls and ewers and a cup from a pure spring

Quran 56:18

Arabic text: Tanzil Quran Text (Uthmani 1.1), CC BY 3.0, tanzil.net. English: Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), public domain, via Project Gutenberg. Counts and verse choice: Quranic Arabic Corpus morphology data (corpus.quran.com).