ḳys
basic morphological information

v. (II)

to estimate
оценивать
قيّس
CSOL I 597
text examples

ḳayyeséyt ˁámok ‘I sized up the situation and said’ (CSOL I 18:30)

other notes

Also see ḳiyás ‘measure’: éṣbeḥ éˀefo wa-kúľľema di-gédaḥ ri wa-zéḷaḳ wa-déḷaḳ rího biľá ḥoz wa-biľá ḳiyás ‘The people also came there in the morning, and everybody who came drank and took away water, for it was plentiful: limitless and immeasurable.’ (CSOL I 7:21)

etymology

Borrowed from Arabic.