55%RatingSave Gender Masculine Usage Arabic Scripts قيس(Arabic) Pronounced Pron. KIES [key·IPA] Meaning & History Means "measurement" in Arabic. This was the real name of Majnun, the lover of Layla, in Nizami Ganjavi's 12th-century poem Layla and Majnun. Related NamesFamily Tree·Details VariantKais Categories literature, measurements, poems, sizes