قَاسَmeasure

Example sentences

• فقال قيسوا ما بين الأرضين فإلى أيتهما كان أدنى فهو له،

  He said, 'Measure the distance between the two lands, and whichever he is closer to is his.'

  قِيسُوا — you measure. This is a plural command 'measure!' (the '-u' addresses several), from a hollow verb whose weak middle collapses. The imperative is the bare ordering shape. It tells them to gauge the distances. Its object follows.

  From: Righteous Company →

• فقاسوا فوجدوه أدنى إلى الأرض التي أراد،

  They measured and found he was closer to the land he intended.

  فَقَاسُوا — They measured. This is 'so' plus a hollow past verb 'measured' ('-u' = 'they') — 'so they measured'. The weak middle collapses in the past stem. The 'fa-' steps the story on. The subject 'they' rides in the verb.

  From: Righteous Company →

• فقاس مع النص والفقيه إذا جاء نص لا يقيس،

  So he made an analogy against the text, whereas a jurist does not use analogy when a text is given.

  فَقَاسَ — so he analogized. The fused front letter marks a 'so/then' consequence of the boast just made. The rest is a past-tense verb with a built-in 'he' subject, reporting that he reasoned by analogy as the outcome of his reasoning.

  From: Adam and the Rebel →

• فقاس مع النص والفقيه إذا جاء نص لا يقيس،

  So he made an analogy against the text, whereas a jurist does not use analogy when a text is given.

  يَقِيسُ — he analogizes. A present-tense verb with a built-in 'he' subject, under the negator before it, reading 'he does not reason by analogy'. The ongoing form marks this as the jurist's general practice, denied here when a text is available.

  From: Adam and the Rebel →