Lane's Lexicon (Edward Lane, 1863)

قُبَّاحٌ ذ A bear (K, TA) that is extremely aged, or old and weak. (TA.)

قَابِحٌ ذ [as part, n. of قَبُحَ]: see 1, first quarter, in two places.

مَقْبُوحٌ ذ , of which the pl. occurs in the Kur [xxviii. 42]. (S, L, Msb,) Removed (S, Msb, K, TA) far (TA) from good, or prosperity, (S, K,) or from all that is good: (L, TA;) or from success, or the attainment of that which he desires or seeks; (Msb;) like as are the dog and the pig: (AZ, L, TA:) or driven away like a dog: (ISd, TA:) or rendered foul, unseemly, unsightly, ugly, or hideous, in form. (I'Ab, TA.) [See also مَشْقُوحٌ, in the first paragraph of art. شقح.]

مَقَابِحُ ذ Bad, evil, abominable, foul, or unseemly, qualities or dispositions [&c.]; contr. of [مَحَاسِنُ and] مَمَادِحُ. (L. [See قُبْحٌ.])

1 قَبَرَ ذ , aor. قَبُرَ and قَبِرَ , inf. n. قَبْرٌ (S, Msb, K) and مَقْبَرٌ, (K,) He buried a corpse; (S, Msb, K:) concealed it in the earth. (TA.)

4 اقبرهُ ذ He made him to be buried: so in the Kur, lxxx. 21: (Fr, S:) where it is meant that man is not made by God to be thrown, when dead, to the dogs, (S,) or to the birds and wild beasts. (Fr.) ― -b2- He ordered that he should be buried. (S, Mgh, Msb.) ― -b3- [ He permitted that he should be buried. ] The tribe of Temeem said to El-Hejjáj, who had slain Sálih the son of 'Abder-Rahmán, أَقْبِرْنَا صَالِحًا, meaning, Permit us to bury Sálih. (S, * TA.) You say also اقبر القَوْمَ, meaning, He gave them their slain that they might burg him. (K.) ― -b4- He assigned to him, or made for him, a grave (ISk, S, Msb, K) to be buried in it: (S:) he made him to have a grave. (Mgh.) ― -b5- Accord. to some, He ordered him to dig a grave. (TA.)

قَبْرٌ ذ A grave, tomb, sepulchre, or place of burial, of a human being: (K:) pl. قُبُور. (S, Msb, K.)

قُبَرٌ ذ : see قَبَّرٌ.

قُبَّرٌ ذ (S, Msb, K) and ↓ قُبَرٌ (K) and ↓ قُنْبُرَاآءُ (S, K) and ↓ فُنْبُرٌ, this last occurring in a Rejez, to be cited below, (S,) The [ lark; ] a kind of bird, (S, K,) resembling the حُمَّرَة; (TA;) a kind of small bird; (Msb:) n. un. قُبَّرَةٌ (S, Msb, K) and قُبَرَةٌ (K) and قُنْبُرَةٌ, (S, Msb,) which last is the form used by the vulgar, (S,) or it is not allowable, or it is a form of weak authority, (K,) and is also pronounced قُنْبَرَةٌ: (Msb:) pl. of قنبراء, (S, K,) and of قنبرة, (Msb,) قَنَابِرُ. (S, Msb, K.) AO cites, from a Rejez of Jendel Ibn-El-Muthennà Et- Tahawee, جَاآءَ الشِّتَاآءُ وَا@جْثَأَلَّ القُنْبُرُ [ The winter came, and the lark plumed himself ]. (S.)

قُنْبُرٌ ذ : see قُبَّرٌ.

قُنْبُرَاآءُ ذ : see قُبَّرٌ.

مَقْبَرٌ ذ and مَقْبُرٌ: see مَقْبُرَةٌ.

مَقْبُرَةٌ ذ and مَقْبَرَةٌ (S, Mgh, Msb, K) and مَقْبِرَةٌ and مِقْبَرَةٌ (K) and ↓ مَقْبَرٌ, (Lth, S, Mgh,) with fet-h only, (Mgh,) this last occurring in poetry, (S,) but agreeable with analogy, (IB,) and ↓ مَقْبُرٌ. (MF, and TA voce أَلُوكٌ, [under which see some remarks on words of this form in the present work,]) A cemetery, burial-place, or place of graves: (Msb, K:) or the place of a grave: (Mgh:) or the last of the above words has this latter signification: (Lth:) pl. (of مقبرة and مقبر, Mgh) مَقَابِرُ. (S, Mgh, Msb.)

مَقْبَرِىٌّ ذ and مَقْبُرِىٌّ applied to a man [ A keeper of a cemetery: or of a grave or tomb: or a gravedigger ]. (S.)

1 قَبَسَ نَارًا ذ , aor. قَبِسَ , (Msb, K,) inf. n. قَبْسٌ, (T, K,) He took fire, مِنْهُ [ from him; ] (K;) as also ↓ اقتبسها: (S, K:) or he took fire from the main mass thereof; (Msb;) as also ↓ اقتبس [alone]. (Msb, K.) ― -b2- [Hence,] قَبَسَ عِلْمًا, (and مِنَ العِلْمِ, TA,) (assumed tropical:) He acquired knowledge, مِنْهُ [ from him; ] (Ks, K, TA;) as also ↓ اقتبسهُ: (Ks, S, K, TA:) or he learned knowledge; as also ↓ اقتبس. (Msb.) ― -b3- [Hence also, قَبَسَ حُمَّى (assumed tropical:) He caught a fever from another; as also ↓ اقتبسها.] You say, هٰذِهِ حُمَّى قَبْسٍ (assumed tropical:) This is a fever caught from another; not accidentally inbred: (A, TA:) but Sgh explains it differently, as signifying an accidental fever. (TA.) And الحُمَّى مِنْ غَيْرِهِ وَلَمْ ↓ اقتبس تَعْرِضْ لَهُ مِنْ نَفْسِهِ (assumed tropical:) [ He caught the fever from another; and it did not accidentally come to him from himself ]. (A, TA.) -A2- قَبَسَ مِنْهُ نَارًا, aor. قَبِسَ , inf. n. قَبْسٌ, [ He sought from him fire; (see its part. n., below;)] (S;) [and so ↓ اقتبسه, for اقتبس مِنْهُ نَارًا; for you say,] اِقْتَبَسْنَا فُلَانًا فَأَبَى ان يُقْبِسَنَا, meaning, [ We sought fire from such a one, and he refused ] to give us fire. (TA.) ― -b2- [And hence, قَبَسَ عِلْمًا (assumed tropical:) He sought knowledge; (see, again, its part. n., below;) and so ↓ اقتبسهُ; as appears from an explanation of the part. n. of this latter also; and from the saying,] أَتَانَا فُلَانٌ يَقْتَبِسُ العِلْمَ فَأَقْبَسْنَاهُ, meaning, (assumed tropical:) [ Such a one came to us seeking knowledge, and ] we taught him. (TA.) -A3- Also, قَبَسَ النَّارَ He lighted, or kindled, the fire. (IKtt.) -A4- See also 4, passim.

4 اقبسهُ ذ He gave him a قَبَس [a brand, or burning stick, or burning piece of fire-wood ]: (S, K:) or he gave him fire: and ↓ قَبَسَهُ he brought him fire: (TA:) and اقبسهُ نَارًا (Ks, S, Msb) he gave him fire; (S, * Msb, TA;) as also نَارًا ↓ قَبَسَهُ. (Yz, Ks, IAar, S.) ― -b2- [Hence,] اقبسهُ (assumed tropical:) He taught him: (K:) and اقبسهُ عِلْمًا, (Yz, Ks, IAar, S, A, Msb,) and خَيْرًا, (A, TA,) (assumed tropical:) he taught him knowledge, (S, * Msb, TA,) and (assumed tropical:) good; (TA;) as also عِلْمًا ↓ قَبَسَهُ, (Ks, IAar, S, A, Msb, TA,) and خَيْرًا: (A:) the latter verb is sometimes thus used; (IAar, TA;) or is allowable: (Ks, TA:) or only the former: (A:) [but it seems to be indicated in the TA, that you say. خَيْرًا ↓ قَبَسَهُ as meaning (assumed tropical:) he brought him good: ] and you say also مَالًا ↓ قَبَسَهُ [app. meaning (assumed tropical:) he gave him property ]. (IAar, TA.) -A2- اقبس فُلَانًا نَارًا He sought fire for such a one. (Yz, * S, * K.)

8 اـِقْتَبَسَ see 1, passim.

قَبَسٌ ذ Fire: (TA:) or a live coal: (Bd, xx. 10:) or [more commonly, and more properly, like نَفَضٌ in the sense of مَنْفُوضٌ;] a firebrand (شُعْلَةٌ مِنْ نَارٍ, T, S, A, Msb, K, * and Bd ubi supra,) taken from the main mass of fire; (T, A, Msb, * K;) as also ↓ مُقْتَبَسٌ and ↓ مِقْبَسٌ (A) and ↓ مِقْبَاسٌ: (S, A, Msb, K:) the last two [properly] signify a thing [ such as a stick, or piece of fire-wood, ] with which one has taken fire: (TA:) and قَبَسٌ is also explained as signifying a live coal, or piece of fire, (جِذْوَةٌ مِنْ نَارٍ,) which one takes upon the end of a stick: (TA:) [and ↓ قَبْسَةٌ also signifies the same; as appears from an application thereof in the K, art. جذو, where الجِذْوَةُ is explained by القَبْسَةُ مِنَ النَّارِ; and from the saying,] مَا أَنَا اـِلَّا قَبْسَةٌ مِنْ نَارِكَ [lit., I am nought but a piece from thy fire; app. meaning, my subsistence, or the like, is derived from thee]. (A, TA.) It is said in a trad. of 'Alee, حَتَّى أَوْرَى قَبَسَ القَابِسِ (assumed tropical:) So that he manifested a light of truth to the seeker thereof. (TA.)

قَبْسَةٌ ذ [inf. n. of un. of 1; A single act of taking fire; &c. Hence the saying,] مَا زُرْتُكَ اـِلَّا كَقَبْسَةِ العَجْلَانِ [ I did not visit thee save like the hasty person's single act of taking fire ]. (TA.) -A2- See also قَبَسٌ.

قَابِسٌ ذ [act. part. n. of 1; Taking fire; a taker of fire; &c. Hence the saying,] مَا أَنْتَ اـِلَّا كالقَابِسِ العَجْلَانِ [ Thou art none other than like the hasty taker of fire ]. (A.) ― -b2- [(assumed tropical:) Acquiring, or learning, knowledge; an acquirer, or a learner, of knowledge. ] -A2- Seeking, or a seeker of, fire: pl. أَقْبَاسٌ; its only broken pl. (TA.) ― -b2- (assumed tropical:) Seeking, or a seeker of, knowledge; as also ↓ مُقْتَبِسٌ. (TA.) ― -b3- القَوَابِسُ [pl. of القَابِسُ, like as الفَوَارِسُ is pl. of الفَارِسُ,] (assumed tropical:) Those who teach men what is good. (TA.)

مَقْبِسٌ ذ The place of the fire-brand: i. e., firewood that has been lighted: or charcoal that has become hard; opposed to حُمَمَةٌ, which is [a piece of] charcoal that does not hold together: pl. مَقَابِسُ. (Msb.)

مِقْبَسٌ ذ : see قَبَسٌ.

مِقْبَاسٌ ذ : see قَبَسٌ.

مُقْتَبَسٌ ذ : see قَبَسٌ.

مُقْتَبِسٌ ذ : see قَابِسٌ.

1 قَبَصَهُ ذ , aor. قَبِصَ , (M, A, K,) inf. n. قَبْصٌ, (S, M,) He took it with the ends of his fingers; (S, M, A, K;) the action which it denotes being less than that termed قَبْضٌ; (M;) the latter signifying the “ taking with the whole of the hand; ” (Bd, xx. 96;) as also ↓ قبصّهُ, (Ibn-'Abbád, K,) inf. n. تَقْبِيصٌ. (TA.) Thus, accord. to one reading, [in the Kur, xx. 96,] فَقَبَصْتُ قَبْصَةً مِنْ أَثَرِ الرَّسُولِ; (S, M, A, TA;) and, accord. to another, قُبْصَةً; (TA;) [in each] with ص [in both instances] instead of ض, with which the passage is commonly read; (TA;) meaning, [ And I took with the ends of my fingers somewhat ] of the dust from the footstep of the horse of the messenger Gabriel. (Jel.) [But see قبض.] You say also, قُبْصَةً ↓ اـِقْتَبَصْتُ [ I took for myself somewhat with the ends of my fingers ]. (A.) And مِنْ أَنْوَارِكَ ↓ جِئْتُ لِأَقْتَبِسَ وَأَقْتَبِصَ مِنْ اآثَارِكَ (tropical:) [ I came to acquire of thy lights of knowledge, and pick up somewhat of thy traditions ]. (A.)

2 قَبَّصَ see 1.

8 اـِقْتَبَصَ see 1, in two places.

قَبْصٌ ذ : see قِبْصٌ, throughout.

قِبْصٌ ذ A great number (AO, S, M, K) of men or people; (S, K;) as also ↓ قَبْصٌ: (M, TA:) thus applied it is like a dim. applied to that which is esteemed great. (El-Fáïk, O.) You say, اـِنَّهُمْ لَفِى قِبْصِ الحَصَى Verily they are numerous as the pebbles. (TA.) And هُوَ فِى قِبْصِ الحَصَى, and ↓ قَبْصِهَا, He is in, or among, a multitude that cannot be numbered. (O, TA.) [See also a verse of ElKumeyt cited in the first paragraph of art. ثرو.] ― -b2- A place where a number is collected together of ants; as also ↓ قَبْصٌ: (M:) and of bees; as also the latter word: (TA:) or where a great number of ants is collected together: (El-'Eyn, TA:) or where a great quantity of sand is collected together; as also the latter word. (Ibn-'Abbád, K.)

قَبْصَةٌ ذ What one takes with the ends of his fingers; as also ↓ قُبْصَةٌ, (K,) and ↓ قَبِيصَةٌ: (S, Msb:) [in the L, قُبَيْصَةٌ; but this is the dim. of the first and second of the above words:] or, accord. to some, the first is a noun signifying the act [ of so taking ]: (M:) and the second, (M,) or this and the first also, (K,) signifies what one's two hands carry, of food, or wheat: (M, K:) the pl. of ↓ قُبْصَةٌ is قُبَصٌ. (TA.)

قُبْصَةٌ ذ : see قَبْصَةٌ, throughout.

قَبِيصٌ ذ : see what next follows.

قَبِيصَةٌ ذ : see قَبْصَةٌ. ― -b2- Also, (M, K,) and ↓ قَبِيصٌ, (M, TA,) Dust, or earth, (M, K,) and pebbles, (Ibn-'Abbád, K, TA,) collected together. (M, K, TA.)

قَابِصَةٌ ذ sing. of قَوَابِصُ; which signifies Bodies [ of men ]; syn. طَوَائِفُ; and a number collected together. (TA.)

1 قَبَضَهُ ذ , (S, M, A, Mgh, Msb,) or قَبَضَهُ بِيَدِهِ, (O, K,) aor. قَبِضَ , (A, Msb, K,) inf. n. قَبْضٌ, (S, Msb,) He took it with his hand, (A, O, K,) by actual touch, or feel: (O:) or the former signifies he closed his hand upon it: (Lth:) [ he grasped it; griped it; clutched it; seized it: ] or he took it with the whole of his hand: (Bd, xx. 96:) or i. q. أَجَذَهُ [ he took it in any manner: he took it with his hand: he took possession of it: and he received it ]: (S, M, Mgh, Msb:) and قَبَضَ عَلَيْهِ, and بِهِ, (M,) or قَبَضَ عَلَيْهِ بِيَدَهِ, (A, Mgh, Msb, K,) aor. and inf. n. as above, (M,) he grasped it, clutched it, laid hold upon it, or seized it, with his hand; syn. أَمْسَكَهُ: (A, K:) or he seized it (أَنْحَى عَلَيْهِ) with the whole of his hand: (M:) or he closed, or contracted, his fingers upon it: (Mgh, Msb:) it is also said, by MF, that some assert قَبْضٌ to signify the “ taking with the ends of the fingers; ” but this is a mistranscription, for قَبْضٌ, with the unpointed ص. (TA [in which it is said, in another place in this art., that ↓ تَقْبِيضٌ has also this last signification; but this is evidently, in like manner, a mistranscription, for تَقْبِيضٌ.]) You say, قَبَضَ المَتَاعَ [ He took, or received, the commodity, or the commodities, or goods ]. (A.) And قَبَضَ مِنْهُ الدَّيْنَ [ He took, or received, from him the debt ]. (M, K, in art. قضى; &c.). And it is said in the Kur, [xx. 96,] فَقَبَضْتُ قَبْضَةً مِنْ أَثَرِ الرَّسُولِ, (M,) and, accord. to an extraordinary reading, ↓ قَبِيضَةً, (B,) meaning [ And I took a handful ] of the dust from the footstep of the hoof of the horse of the messenger [Gabriel]: (IJ, M:) and ↓ اـِقْتَبَضَ مِنْ أَتَرِهِ قَبْضَةً signifies the same as قَبَضَ: and قَبَصَ [q. v.] is [said to be] a dial. form thereof. (TA.) And you say, قَبَضَ الطَّائِرَ He collected, or comprehended, the bird in his grasp. (A.) And قَبَضَ عَلَى عُرْفِ الفَرَسِ [ He grasped, or laid hold upon, the mane of the horse ]. (A.) ― -b2- It is also used metaphorically, to denote the having an absolute property in a thing, to dispose of it at pleasure, without respect to the hand; as in the phrase قَبَضْتُ الأَرْضَ, and الدَّارَ, (tropical:) I had, or took, or got, possession of the land, and of the house. (TA.) And [in like manner] it is said in a trad., يَقْبِضُ ا@للّٰهُ الأَرْضَ, and السَّمَاآءَ, (assumed tropical:) God will comprehend, or collect together, [ within his sole possession, (see قُبْضَةٌ,)] the earth, and the heaven. (TA.) [In like manner] you say also, قَبَضَ عَلَى غَرِيمِهِ (tropical:) [ He arrested his debtor: used in this sense in the present day]. (A.) And قَبَضَ ا@للّٰهُ رُوحَهُ (tropical:) God took his soul. (TA.) And قَبَضَهُ ا@للّٰهُ (tropical:) God caused him to die. (Msb.) And قُبِضَ (tropical:) He (a man, S, M, A) died: (S M, A, * K:) and also (assumed tropical:) he (a sick man) was at the point of death; in the state of having his soul taken; in the agony of death. (L, TA.) And قَبَضْتُهُ عَنِ الأَمْرِ (assumed tropical:) I removed him from the thing, or affair. (Msb.) ― -b3- قَبَضَهُ, aor. as above, (M, K,) and so the inf. n., (S, M, Mgh,) also signifies the (assumed tropical:) contr. of بَسَطَهُ; (S, * M, Mgh, * K;) and so ↓ قبّضهُ, (IAar, M,) inf. n. تَقْبِيضٌ. (TA.) [As such, (assumed tropical:) He contracted it; or drew it together. ] You say, قَبَضَ رِجْلَهُ وَبَسَطَهَا (tropical:) [ He contracted his leg, and extended it ]. (A.) And قَبَضَ كَفَّهُ [ He clenched his hand ]. (S, Mgh, Msb, K, in art. برجم.). And قَبَضَ يَدَهُ عَنْهُ (assumed tropical:) [ He drew in his hand from it: or] he refrained from laying hold upon it. (K.) Whence the saying in the Kur, [ix. 68,] وَيَقْبِضُونَ أَيْدِيَهُمْ, meaning (assumed tropical:) [ And they draw in their hands, or refrain, ] from expenditure, or from paying the [poor-rate called] زَكَاة. (TA.) You say also, جَنَاحَهُ ↓ قبّض (assumed tropical:) He (a bird) contracted his wing: (M:) or قَبَضَ, or قَبَضَ جَنَاحَهُ, (assumed tropical:) he contracted his wing to fly. (TA.) And hence, (TA,) قَبَضَ, aor. as above; (S, K;) or قَبُضَ (M;) [or both;] inf. n. [of the former] قَبْضٌ (S, K,) and [of the latter, as indicated in the M,] قَبَاضَةٌ (S, M, A, K) and قَبَاضٌ; (M;) (tropical:) He (a bird, S, K, and a horse, A, and a man, S, or other [animal], K,) was quick, (S, M, A, K,) in flight, or in going or pace. (K.) يَقْبِضْنَ, said of birds, in the Kur, [lxvii. 19,] is [said to be] an ex. of this signification. (S, K. *) You say also, قَبَضَتِ الاـِبِلُ (tropical:) The camels were quick in their pace; at every spring therein, putting their legs together. (A.) And ↓ اـِنْقَبَضَ (tropical:) He, or it, (a company of men, M,) went, or journeyed, and was quick. (Lth, M, K.) And فِى فُلَانٌ ↓ اـِنْقَبَضَ حَاجَتِهِ (tropical:) Such a one was quick, and light, or active, in accomplishing his want. (A.) And قَبْضٌ also signifies i. q. نَزْوٌ (assumed tropical:) [The act of leaping, &c.]. (TA.) ― -b4- [Also, as contr. of بَسَطَهُ,] (assumed tropical:) He collected it together. (Az.) And hence, (Az,) قَبَضَ الاـِبِلَ, (Az, M,) aor. قَبِضَ , inf. n. قَبْضٌ (Az, S, M) (assumed tropical:) He drove (Az, S, M) the camels violently, or roughly, (Az, M.) or quickly: (S:) because the driver collects them together, when he desires to drive them; for when they disperse themselves from him, the driving of them is difficult: (Az, TA:) and بِهَا ↓ اـِنْقَبَضَ [signifies the same, or, agreeably with an explanation given above, (tropical:) he went quickly with them ]. (M.) And العَيْرُ يَقْبِضُ عَانَتَهُ (assumed tropical:) The he-ass drives away his she-ass. (M.) ― -b5- [As such also,] قَبَضَهُ; (A;) and ↓ قبّضهُ, (S, M, K,) inf. n. تَقْبِيضٌ; (S;) (tropical:) He, or it, drew it, collected it, or gathered it, together; contracted it, shrank it, or wrinkled it. (S, M, A, * K.) You say, قَبَضَ وَجْهَهُ (tropical:) He, or it, contracted, or wrinkled, his face ]. (A.) And قَبَضَتِ النَّارُ الجِلْدَةَ (tropical:) [ The fire [...]

2 قَبَّضَ see a remark appended to the first sentence in this art. : ― -b2- see also فَبَضَهُ as contr. of بَسَطَهُ, in six places. ― -b3- قَبَّضَهُ المَالَ, (S, * M, K, *) or المَتَاعَ, (A,) inf. n. تَقْبِيضٌ, (S, K,) He gave to him, (S, M, K,) in his grasp, or possession, (K,) i. e. to him who should receive it, (S,) the property, (S, M,) or commodity, or commodities, or goods; (A;) i. e. he transferred it to his possession; (TA;) [lit. he made him to take it, to take it with his hand, to grasp it, or to receive it; ] as also اـِيَّاهُ ↓ أَقْبَضَهُ. (A.)

3 قابضهُ ذ , inf. n. مُقَابَضَةٌ (AZ, A) and قِبَاضٌ, (Er-Rághib, TA in art. شرى,) He bartered, or exchanged commodities, with him. (AZ, in TA, art, خوص.) [See also قَايَضَهُ.]

4 اقبضهُ المَتَاعَ ذ [or المَالَ]: see 2. -A2- القبضهُ He put, or made, a handle to it, (S, M, A, K,) namely a knife, (S, M, A,) and a sword. (S, K.)

5 تقبّض ذ quasi-pass. of قَبَّضَهُ as contr. of بَسَطَهُ; (M;) as also ↓ اِنْقَبَضَ is of قَبَضَهُ in the same sense, (S, * M, K, *) being contr. of اِنْبَسَطَ. (S, K.) [As such,] both signify (assumed tropical:) It became drawn, collected, or gathered, together; or it drew, collected, or gathered, itself together; or contracted; or shrank; syn. of the former, تَجَمَّعَ; (TA;) and of the latter, اِنْضَمَّ [which also signifies it became drawn and joined, or adjoined, to another thing; &c.]. (O, K.) So the latter signifies in the phrase فِى حَاجَتِى ↓ انقبض (assumed tropical:) [ It became comprised in, or adjoined to, the object of my want ]. (O.) ― -b2- [As such also,] the former signifies (tropical:) It (a man's face, A, or the part between the eyes, M,) became contracted, or wrinkled; (M, A; *) and in like manner a piece of skin, in, or upon, a fire; meaning it became contracted, shrunken, or shrivelled; it shrank: (so in different copies of the S:) or it (skin, K, or the skin of a man, TA) became contracted, or shrunken; (K, TA;) and so an old man. (A.) ― -b3- [As such also,] تَقبّض عَنْهُ (tropical:) He shrank, or shrank with aversion, from him, or it; (S, M, A, K;) as also عَنْهُ ↓ اِنْقَبَضَ: (A:) [see an ex. of the latter near the end of 1.] ↓ الاِنْقِبَاضُ عَنِ النَّاسِ also signifies (assumed tropical:) The withdrawing, removing, or retiring, from men. (TA.) And عَنِ الأَمْرِ ↓ اِنْقَبَضَ (assumed tropical:) He removed, or became removed, from the thing, or affair. (Msb.) ― -b4- تقبّض عَلَى الأَمْرِ (tropical:) He paused, or waited, at the thing, or affair; syn. تَوَقَّفَ. (M, A.) ― -b5- تقبّض اـِلَيْهِ (assumed tropical:) He leaped, or sprang, towards him. (Sgh, K.) ― -b6- See also 1; last third of the paragraph.

6 تقابض المُتَيَايِعَانِ ذ [ The two parties in an affair of traffic bartered, or exchanged commodities, each with the other: see 3]. (A.)

7 انقبض ذ It (a thing) became مَقْبُوض [meaning taken, taken with the hand, grasped, or received ]. (S.) ― -b2- See also 5, in six places. ― -b3- And see 1, in three places, about the middle of the paragraph.

8 اقتبضهُ لِنَفْسِهِ ذ [ He took it, took it with his hand, grasped it, clutched it, seized it, took possession of it, or received it, for himself ]. (A.) See an ex. in 1, before the first break in the paragraph.

قَبْضٌ ذ The act of taking, taking with the hand; [ grasping; clutching; seizing; ] taking possession of; or receiving. (S, Msb.) ― -b2- And [hence], Possession; (S, TA;) as also ↓ قَبْضَةٌ: (S, M, Mgh, Msb, TA:) or the latter is a n. un. [signifying an act of taking, or taking with the hand; a grasp; a seizure; &c.]. (TA.) You say, صَارَ الشَّىْءُ فِى قَبْضِكَ, and ↓ قَبْضَتِكَ, The thing became in thy possession. (S, M. *) And هٰذِهِ الدَّارُ فِى قَبْضِى, (TA,) and ↓ قَبْضَتِى, (M, TA,) This house is in my possession; (M, TA;) like as you say, فِى يَدَى. (TA.)

قَبَضٌ ذ i. q. مَقْبُوضٌ; (Mgh, K;) like هَدَمٌ in the sense of مَهْدُومٌ, and نَفَضٌ in the sense of مَنْفُوضٌ; (TA;) meaning What is taken, of articles of property (S, M) of people: (S:) what is collected, (Lth,) or taken and collected, (Mgh,) of spoils, before they are divided. (Lth, Mgh.) You say, دَخَلَ مَالُ فُلَانٍ فِى القَبَضِ The property of such a one entered into what was taken of the articles of property of the people. (S.) And اـِطْرَحَهُ فِى القَبَضِ (A, Mgh) Throw thou it among the things that have been taken: (Mgh:) said to Saad Ibn-Abee- Wakkás, when he slew Sa'eed Ibn-El-'Ás, and took his sword: so in a trad. (TA.) And in another trad. it is said, جُعِلَ سَلْمَانُ عَلَى قَبَضٍ Selmán was set over spoils that were taken and yet undivided, to guard and divide them. (Mgh.)

قَبْضَةٌ ذ : [pl. قَبَضَاتٌ:] see قَبْضٌ, in three places. ― -b2- See also قُبْضَةٌ, in four places. ― -b3- And see مَقْبِضٌ. ― -b4- Also, [The measure of a man's fist, from side to side; ] four finger-breadths; (Mgh, Msb, voce جَرِيبٌ;) the sixth part of the common ذِرَاع [or cubit: but in the present day, the measure of a man's fist with the thumb erect; which is about six inches and a quarter ]: pl. قَبَضَاتٌ. (Mgh, Msb, vocibus ذِرَاعٌ and جَرِيبٌ.)

قُبْضَةٌ ذ (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K) [ A handful; ] what one takes with the hand, or grasps; (S, K;) مِنْ كَذَا [ of such a thing ]; (Mgh;) as, for instance, مِنْ سَوِيقٍ [ of meal of parched barley ]; (S;) or مِنْ تَمْرٍ [ of dates ]; (S, A, Msb;) i. e. كَفّاً; (S;) as also ↓ قَبْضَةٌ; (S, M, A, K;) but the former is the more common; (S, K;) and ↓ قَبِيضَةٌ: (B:) or the first is a subst. in the sense of مَقْبُوضٌ, and the second is a n. un.: (TA:) the pl. of the first is قُبَضٌ. (TA.) You say also, كَفِّى ↓ هٰذَا قَبْضَةُ This is the quantity that my hand grasps. (M.) See two other exs. of the second word, and an ex. of the third, in 1, before the first break in the paragraph. It is also said in the Kur, [xxxix. 67,] وَا@لْأَرْضُ جَمِيعًا يَوْمَ القِيَامَةِ ↓ قَبْضَتُهُ, i. e. قُبْضَتُهُ, for قَبْضَةٌ is an inf. n. [of un.] used as a subst., or is for ذَاتُ قَبْضَةٍ, (Bd,) and the literal signification is, [ And the earth altogether shall be ] his handful [ on the day of resurrection ]; (Bd, Jel;) meaning in his possession (Jel, TA) alone, (TA,) and at his free and absolute disposal: (Jel:) Th says, that this is like the phrase هٰذِهِ الدَّارُ فِى قَبْضَتِى, meaning as explained above, voce قَبْضٌ; but this opinion is not valid:) (M:) another reading is ↓ قَبْضَتَهُ, in the accus. case, (M, Bd,) as an adv. n.; that which is determinate being thus likened to what is vague; (Bd;) and this is allowed by some of the grammarians; but it is not allowed by any one of the grammarians of El-Basrah. (M.) It is also said, in the trad. of Bilál and the dates, فَجَعَلَ يَجِىْءُ بِهِ قُبَضًا قُبَضًا [ And he set about bringing them (the pronoun referring to التَّمْر the dates ) handfuls by handfuls ]. (TA.)

قُبَضَةٌ ذ , (K,) or قُبَضَةٌ رُفَضَةٌ, (S, M, A, TA,) to this latter, not to the former alone, the following explanation applies, (TA,) A man who lays hold upon a thing, and then leaves it without delay. (S, M, A, K.) And the former, A pastor who draws his sheep or goats together, not going far and wide in pasturing them: (S:) or who manages well (A, K) for his sheep or goats, (K,) or for his beasts, collecting them together, and, when he finds a place of pasture, spreads them abroad: (A:) and the latter, a pastor who manages well, and is gentle with his pasturing beasts, collecting them together and driving them, when their place of pasturage becomes wanting in herbage, and, when they light upon a piece of herbage, leaves them to spread abroad and pasture at pleasure: (Az, TA:) or who collects together his camels, and drives them until he brings them whithersoever he will. (M.) [See also art. رفض.]

قَبِيضٌ ذ : see قَابِضٌ, in three places.

قَبِيضَةٌ ذ : see قُبْضَةٌ, in two places.