قصر

6 تقاصر ذ He feigned, or pretended, (أَظْهَرَ,) shortness; (M, Sgh, K;) as also ↓ تَقَوْصَرَ: (Sgh, K:) or, accord. to some, these two verbs have different significations: see the latter below. (TA.) ― -b2- [And He contracted himself, or drew himself together. (See R. Q. 1 in art. فذ.)] ― -b3- تقاصرت نَفْسُهُ (assumed tropical:) He (lit. his spirit, or soul,) became abject, mean, contemptible, or despicable; syn. تَضَاآءَلَتْ. (M.) ― -b4- تقاصر الظِّلُّ (tropical:) The shade became contracted. (M, TA.) ― -b5- See also 1, in two places.