qusoTaAsN * and qisoTaAsN A balance, or instrument for weighing: (S, Msb, K; and Bd in xvii. 37:) or the most even and most just kind thereof: or such as is just, of whatever kind it be: (K:) or i. q. qab~aAnN [ a steelyard ]: or, as Lth thinks, the iron of the qb~An : or i. q. $aAhiynN [the beam of a balance ]: (TA:) or i. q. farasoTuwnN [an arabicized Persian word, signifying a public standard of weights or measures ]: (Zj, TA:) also written qSTAs : (K:) said to be Arabic, from AlqisoTu , meaning “ justice: ” (Msb:) or a Greek word arabicized; (IDrd, Msb, K;) and its being so does not impugn the truth of the Kur-án's being [altogether] Arabic; for when a foreign word is used by the Arabs, and made by them conformable with their language in respect of desinential syntax and determinateness and indeterminateness and the like, it becomes Arabic: (Bd, ubi supra:) pl. qasaATiysu . (Msb.)
The corpus record — Arabic
قِسْطَاس
qistaas
qusoTaAsN * and qisoTaAsN A balance, or instrument for weighing: (S, Msb, K; and Bd in xvii. 37:) or the most even and most just kind thereof: or such as is just, of whatever kind it be: (K:) or i. q. qab~aAnN [ a steelyard ]: or, as Lth thinks, the iron of the qb~An : or i. q. $aAhiynN [the beam of
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- The Quran 2 · 0.16/10k
What it meant — Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon
In the wild
- قِسْطَاسِ Quran 17:35 (Al-Isra 35)
- قِسْطَاسِ Quran 26:182 (Ash-Shu'ara 182)
Quran text from Tanzil (tanzil.net), distributed verbatim per its license. Morphological facts derived from the Quranic Arabic Corpus (corpus.quran.com, Kais Dukes), stated as facts with source credit. Dictionary senses from Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon (1863-93, public domain), via the Perseus Digital Library.