# مقص
## Arabic
### Etymology

Tool noun from the verb قَصَّ (qaṣṣa, “to cut”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mi.qasˤsˤ/

### Noun

مِقَصّ • (miqaṣṣ) m (plural مِقَصَّات (miqaṣṣāt) or مَقَاصّ (maqāṣṣ))
* scissors
* a clipping tool
    مِقَصُّ أَظَافِرَ ― miqaṣṣu ʔaẓāfira ― nail clippers

#### Descendants

* Egyptian Arabic: مقص (maʔáṣṣ)
* Hijazi Arabic: مقص (magaṣṣ)
* Maltese: mqass
* Moroccan Arabic: مقص (mqaṣṣ)
* → Hausa: àlmakàshī
** → Yoruba: àlùmọ́gàjí
* → Northern Kurdish: meqes
* → Ottoman Turkish: مقص (makas), مقاص (makas)
** Turkish: makas
** → Armenian: մախաս (maxas), մախկազ (maxkaz)
** → Romanian: macaz
* → Swahili: mkasi

## Egyptian Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic مِقَصّ (miqaṣṣ).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ma.ʔasˤː/, [mæˈʔɑsˤ]

### Noun

مقص • (maʔaṣṣ) m (plural مقصات (maʔaṣṣāt))
* scissors

## Hijazi Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic مِقَصّ (miqaṣṣ).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ma.ɡasˤsˤ/

### Noun

مقص • (magaṣṣ) m (plural مقصات (magaṣṣāt))
* scissors

## Moroccan Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic مِقَصّ (miqaṣṣ).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mqasˤː/

### Noun

مقص • (mqaṣṣ) m (plural مقاص (mqāṣṣ))
* scissors

#### Derived terms

* مقص الضفار (mqaṣṣ eḍ-ḍfār, “nail clipper”)

## Ottoman Turkish
### Alternative forms

* مقاص (makas)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مِقَصّ (miqaṣṣ, “scissors”).

### Proper noun

مقص • (makas) (definite accusative مقصی (makası), plural مقصلر (makaslar))
* scissors, shears, a tool used for cutting consisting of two crossing blades
* any combination of metal or timber somewhat resembling a pair of scissors in form
* shears, an apparatus consisting of two or more spars used for raising heavy weights
* (architecture) truss, a triangular structure made of beams and used to support a roof
    Synonym: چاتی (çatı)

#### Derived terms

* دمیر یول مقصی (demir yol makası, “railway switch”)
* عربه مقصی (ʼaraba makası, “carriage spring”)
* مقص بندی (makas bendi, “cross-leg throw in wrestling”)
* مقصجی (makascı, “maker or seller of scissors”)
* موم مقصی (mum makası, “candle snuffer”)
* یارم مقص (yarım makas, “two half shots linked together”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: makas
* → Armenian: մախաս (maxas), մախկազ (maxkaz)
* → Romanian: macaz

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “makas”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3026
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “مقص”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 455a
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مقص”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1209
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Forfex”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 601
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مقص”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 4841
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “makas”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مقص”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1944