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لقس

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

1 لَقِسَتْ نَفْسُهُ ذ , (S, A, K,) aor. لَقَسَ , (S, K,) inf. n. لَقَسٌ, (S, TA,) His soul [or stomach ] heaved; or became agitated by a tendency to vomit; or became heavy; syn. غَثَتْ, [q. v.,] (S, A, K,) and خَبُثَتْ; (S, K;) مِنَ الشَّىْءِ in consequence of the thing. (S, K.) Mohammad desired his followers to use this expression instead of خَبُثَتْ نَفْسُهُ, which he disliked. (K, TA.) ― -b2- With اـِلى الشَّىْءِ following it, His soul strove with him to incline him to the thing, (K,) and became greedy for it. (TA.) [But Az seems to disapprove of this explanation.]

Derived headwords

لَقِسَتْ نَفْسُهُverb
  1. 1.
مِنَ الشَّىْءِ
اـِلى الشَّىْءِ