قسر

قَسْوَرَةٌ ذ Mighty; (M, K;) that overpowers, or subdues, others: (M, TA:) also strong; applied to a man: and courageous: (TA:) pl. قَسَاوِرُ. (M.) ― -b2- A lion; as also ↓ قَسْوَرٌ: (S, M, K:) because he overcomes and overpowers. (TA.) So in the Kur, [lxxiv. 51,] كَأَتَّهُمْ حُمُرٌ مُسْتَنْفِرَةٌ فَرَّتْ مِنْ قَسْوَرَةٍ [ As though they were asses taking fright and running away at random that have fled from a lion ]. (S, M.) Or it has here the signification next following. (S.) ― -b3- Hunters that shoot, or cast: (S, K:) sing. ↓ قَسْوَرٌ; (K;) accord. to Lth.; [and in the M it is said that ↓ قَسْوَرٌ signifies a shooter, or caster: or, accord. to some, a hunter: ] but this is a mistake; for قسورة is a coll. n., having no sing.; and Fr says, that in the verse of the Kur cited above, it means shooters, or casters of missile weapons: it is also related of 'Ikrimeh, that it was said to him that قسورة signifies, in the Abyssinian language, a lion; but he said that is signification is that given above on the authority of Fr, and that the lion in the Abyssinian language is called عَنْبَسَة: and Ibn-'Arafeh says قسورة is of the measure فَعْوَلَةٌ from القَسْرُ; and that the meaning [in the Kur] is, as though they were asses made to take fright and run away by shooting or hunting &c. (TA.) Or, accord. to I'Ab, in the passage above cited, it has the signification here next following. (IKt, TA.) -A2- The sound of men, (IKt, K, TA,) and their voices, or cries. (IKt, TA.)