قَاسَ measure in Arabic
قَاسَ is how you say “measure” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
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.
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More example sentences
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.
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.
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.