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وقص

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

أَوْقَصُ ذ A man (S, Mgh) short in the neck; (S, A, Mgh, K;) naturally so: (TA:) or having the neck inclining and short: (A'Obeyd, TA:) fem. وَقْصَاآءُ. (A, TA.) -A2- خُدْ أَوْقَصَ الطَّرِيقَيْنِ (tropical:) Take thou the nearer of the two ways: (Ibn- 'Abbád, K: *) or shorter thereof. (A, TA.)

Derived headwords

أَوْقَصُ
  1. 1.
خُدْ أَوْقَصَ الطَّرِيقَيْنِ