قَلَنْسُوَةٌ

(S, A, Msb, K) and ↓ قُلَنْسِيَةٌ (S, K) and ↓ قَلْسُوَةٌ and ↓ قَلْسَاةٌ (TA) A certain thing that is worn upon the head, (K, TA,) well known; (TA;) [a cap, generally high and pointed, but sometimes close-fitting, which was worn by the Arabs, sometimes alone, and sometimes beneath the turban: there was also one kind which was round, like a melon: (see أُرْصُوصَةٌ:) and a cowl, or hood, of a pointed form: see طُرْطُورٌ, and بُرْنُسٌ, and عَرَقِيَّةٌ: 'Abd-El-Lateef applies the term قَلَنْسُوَة نُحَاس to the cap of copper which covered the head of the obelisk standing on the site of Heliopolis, now called El-Matareeyeh:] the kind worn by the Companions [of the Prophet] was such as fitted close to the head, [not pointed, or] not going away into the air: (K in article بطح:) plural قَلَانِسُ and قَلَاسٍ (S, Msb, K) and قَلَانِيسُ and قَلَاسِىٌّ and قَلَنْسٍ, which last is [properly a coll. gen. n. of which قَلَنْسُوَةٌ is the n. un., being] originally قَلَنْسُوٌ, for there is no noun ending with an infirm letter preceded by a dammeh, wherefore the و is changed into ى, and the dammeh into a kesreh, and then the word becomes like قَاضٍ [for قَاضِىٌ]. (S, K.) The diminutive is ↓ قُلَيْنِسَةٌ and ↓ قُلَيْسِيَةٌ and ↓ قُلَيْنِيسَةٌ and ↓ قُلَيْسِيَّةٌ: (S, K:) but not قُلَيْنِيسِيَةٌ; for the Arabs form no diminutive of a word of five [or more] letters so as to preserve all the letters, unless the fourth be a letter of prolongation. (TA.)