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Mandaic
ḳdš - (pa.) to sanctify
(MD 405)
Being used only in derision of Jewish and Christian religious phraseology, the root acquired an opposite meaning ‘to be sinful, godless’.
Reconstruction
PS
*ḳdš
- sacred
(HALOT 1066)