*ksʾ: 'full moon'

Root

Field	Value
Reconstruction	*ksʾ
Meaning	'full moon'
Basis	project

Reflexes

Language	Form	Sources	Note
Pre-Islamic North Arabian	Safaitic ksʾ (Al-Jallad 2026, 83)	Al-Jallad 2026 83	gloss withheld
Hebrew	keseʾ, kēseh (HALOT 487)	HALOT 487	gloss withheld
Ugaritic	yrḫ ksʾ (HALOT 487)	HALOT 487
Phoenician	ksʾ, in the name ʿbdksʾ (HALOT 487); ksʾ, in wbksʾm (Krahmalkov 237)	HALOT 487; Krahmalkov 237	gloss withheld
Syrian Aramaic	kesāʾ (HALOT 487)	HALOT 487	gloss withheld
Arabic	kusʾ (HALOT 487)	HALOT 487
Akkadian	kusēʾu, agû (HALOT 487)	HALOT 487	gloss withheld

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Notes

HALOT 487 takes Hebrew keseʾ as a loan from Akkadian kusēʾu. Al-Jallad (2026, 83) adds Jewish Babylonian ksʾʾ (kessā). The one Safaitic attestation reads b-ksʾ mlḥ 'at the setting of mlḥ' (C 523).

Updated 3 November 2026

*ksʾ: 'full moon'

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