قرص

قُرْصٌ ذ and ↓ قُرْصَةٌ A round cake (K, * TA,) of bread; (S, K, TA;) syn. خُبْزَةٌ (K, TA) and رَغِيفٌ: (TA:) or such as is very small: (TA:) [or, accord. to present usage, small, but thick: ] the former word is the more common: (TA:) or a [ round ] piece of dough: (M, A: *) [and any similar thing, small, and of a round, flattened form: ] pl., (of the former, S, Msb,) أَقْرَاصٌ [a pl. of pauc.] and قِرَصَةٌ (S, M, Msb, K) and قِرَاصٌ, (M, TA,) [both pls. of mult.;] and (of قُرْصَةٌ, S, TA,) قُرَصٌ; (S, K;) and أَقْرِصَةٌ [is a pl. of pauc. of either]. (K, art. بت.) ― -b2- Hence, as being likened to the thing above mentioned, (M,) القُرْصُ, (M, TA,) or قُرْصُ الشَّمْسِ, (S, A, TA,) or ↓ القُرْصَةُ, (K,) The disk (عَيْن) of the sun: (S, M, K, TA:) and sometimes the sun, as a common, or general, term: (M:) or the disk (عين) of the sun when it is setting: (TA:) you say, غَابَ قُرْصُ الشَّمْسِ [ the disk of the sun set, or disappeared ]: (A, TA:) or the عين of the sun is called ↓ قُرْصَة, with ة, at the setting. (Lth, TA.) ― -b3- See also مُقَرَّصٌ. ― -b4- [قُرْصُ شَهْدٍ or عَسَلٍ A honey-comb: or the same, and شَهْدٍ ↓ قُرْصَةُ or عَسَلٍ, a portion of a honey-comb: pl. قِرَصَة.]