kısas
Meaning
Punishing the guilty in the same way they committed the crime; talion.
kıssa
Translations
talion
قِصَاصPronounced as (IPA)
/kɯˈsas/
Etymology
In summary
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قصاص (ḳıṣaṣ, ḳaṣaṣ, “the application of the law of talion, putting a man to death for manslaughter”), from Arabic قِصَاص (qiṣāṣ), verbal noun of قَاصَّ (qāṣṣa).
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