Lane's Lexicon (Edward Lane, 1863)

4 أَقْصَدَنِى اـِلَيْهِ الأَمُرْ ذ The affair caused me to tend, repair, betake myself, or direct my course, to, or towards, him, or it; to aim at him, or it; to seek, endeavour after, pursue, or endeavour to reach, attain, or obtain, him, or it; to desire it, or wish for it; to intend it, or purpose it. (M, L.) ― -b2- (tropical:) It (an arrow) hit its object, and killed on the spot. (S, K.) ― -b3- He pierced a man with a spear, (K,) or shot him with an arrow, (TA,) and did not miss him: (K:) he struck, or shot, a thing so that it died on the spot: (As:) he killed on the spot: (Lth:) it (a serpent) killed a person (Lth, S) on the spot: (Lth:) or bit him so as to kill him. (K, * TA.) أَقْصَدَتْهُ المَنِيَّةُ Destiny killed him on the spot. (A.) -A2- اقصد, (inf. n. اـِقْصَادٌ, TA,) He composed [ odes, or] poems of the kind termed قَصِيد; a verb similar to أَرْمَلَ and أَهْزَجَ and أَرْجَزَ: (Ibn-Buzurj, L:) also, (L, TA,) or ↓ اقتصد, inf. n. اـِقْتِصَادٌ, accord. to the K, but the former is the correct form, (TA,) [or the latter is probably correct, as being similar to اـِرْتَجَزَ, as well as the former, of which the act. part. n. occurs in a verse,] and ↓ قَصَدَ, inf. n. قَصْدٌ; (K;) or ↓ قَصَّدَ; (as in the M and L;) he continued uninterruptedly, (L, K,) and prolonged, (L,) the composition of [ odes, or] poems of the kind termed قَصَائِد. (L, K.) See مُقْصدٌ.

5 تقصّد ذ He (a dog &c.) died. (S.) ― -b2- And see 7, in three places.

7 انقصد ذ and ↓ تقصّد; (L, K;) and ↓ قَصِدَ, aor. قَصَدَ , inf. n. قَصَدٌ; but this form of the verb is seldom used; (L;) It broke, or became broken, in any way or manner: or it broke, or became broken, in halves: (L, K:) [but they are differently used: you say,] انقصد الرُّمْحُ [ the spear broke: or] (S, L) the spear broke in halves: (L:) and الرِّمَاحُ ↓ تقصّدتِ the spears broke in many pieces. (S, A, L.) -A2- انقصد and ↓ تقصّد It (marrow) became detached, or came forth, from its place. (TA.)

8 اقتصد ذ : see 1. ― -b2- He aimed at that which was right and just. (A, art. صيد. See 1 in that art.) -A2- And see 4.

قَصْدٌ ذ , [inf. n. of 1, q. v. ― -b2- Used as a subst., The tending, self-direction, aim, or course of a person ― -b3- Hence, An object of aim, of endeavour or pursuit, of desire or wish, or of intention or purpose; one's intention, intent, or meaning; as also ↓ مَقْصُودٌ. See مَقْصِدٌ] ― -b4- A thing that is right, of what is said and of what is done; syn. سَدَادٌ and صَوَابٌ. (S, voce تَسْدِيدٌ, &c.) هُوَ عَاَى قَصْدٍ, He is following a right way, or course. (Msb.) See also قَاصِدٌ. ― -b5- Conforming, or conformable, to the just mean. (M in art. ام.) See also مُقَصَّدٌ. -A2- A little that is given. (S, O, K, art. قصد.) -A3- See also قَصِيدٌ.

قَصْدَهُ ذ In the direction of, or towards, him, or it. Ex. قَصَدْتُ قَصْدَهُ I tended, repaired, betook myself, or directed my course, towards him, or it: (S, Msb:) [like صَمَدْتُ صَمْدَهُ, and حَرَدْتُ حَرْدَهُ, and شَدَا شَدْوَهُ, &c.:] also signifying, [ I purposed his purpose, or] I pursued his (another's) way, or course, doing [and thinking ] as he did. (L, in art. وكد.) أَخَذَ قَصْدَ الوَادِى, and ↓ قَصِيدَهُ, [ He went towards the valley ]. (A.) ― -b2- هُوَ قَصْدَكَ, and قَصْدُكَ, He is before thee, before thy face. It is more commonly used as a subst. (M, L.)

رُمْحٌ قَصِدٌ ذ , and ↓ قَصِيدٌ, (M, L, K,) and ↓ أَقْصَادٌ, (S, L,) which is one of the words [used as a sing. epithet] having a pl. form, (Akh, S,) A spear broken: (M, L:) [or, broken in halves: ] or broken in many pieces. (K.)

قِصْدَةٌ ذ A fragment; a piece of a thing that is broken: (S, K:) and any piece [of a thing]: (TA:) pl. قِصَدٌ. (S, K.) Ex. القَنَا قِصَدٌ [ The spears are broken into fragments ]. (S.) ― -b2- قِصْدَةٌ مِنْ عَظْمٍ A piece of a bone; meaning, a third, or a quarter, of the thigh, or arm, or skin, or shoulder; (M, L;) less than the half; as much as the third, or quarter. (IKtt.)

قَصُودٌ ذ A camel having compact marrow. (ISh, L.) See also قَصِيدٌ.

قَصِيدٌ ذ and ↓ مَقْصُودٌ Aimed at, sought, desired, intended, or purposed. (L.) -A2- Fat marrow: (K:) or thick and fat marrow, that breaks in pieces (يَتَقَصَّدُ) by reason of its fatness: a piece thereof is termed قَصِيدَةٌ: (L:) or the former word and ↓ قَصُودٌ signify marrow inferior to that which is fat (A, O, K) but superior to that which is lean: (A, O:) and قَصِيدَةٌ, a piece of marrow that has come forth from the bone. (L.) ― -b2- And (L, K), or ذُو قَصِيدٍ, (L,) A bone containing marrow. (L, K.) ― -b3- Dry, or tough, (يَاسِس,) fleshmeat; (Lth, S, L, K;) as also ↓ قَصْدٌ; and, as some say, fat fleshmeat. (L.) ― -b4- A fat she-camel, (L, K,) plump and corpulent, (L,) and having marrow in her bones; as also قَصِيدَةٌ. (L, K.) ― -b5- A fat camel's hump. (K.) -A3- A staff; (L, K;) as also قَصِيدَة; (K;) or the latter has not been heard: (TA:) pl. قَصَائِدُ. (L.) -A4- Poetry, or a poem, trimmed, pruned, or free from faults, well executed, (K,) and composed with premeditation; (TA;) as also قَصِيدَةٌ: (TA:) [but the latter is used as a subst.] ― -b2- قَصِيدٌ, a gen. n., applied properly to poetry, and, by extension of the signification, to a single poem, for قَصِيدَةٌ; (IJ, L;). or it is pl. of قَصِيدَةٌ, like as سَفِينٌ is of سَفِينَةٌ; (S, L;) and so is قَصَائِدُ; (L;) [but properly, قَصِيدٌ is a coll. gen. n., and قَصِيدَةٌ is its n. un., and قَصَائِدُ is pl. of the latter;] Poetry, or a poem, [or an ode, (for it was always designed to be chanted or sung,)] of which the bipartition (شَطْر) of the verses is complete; (M, L, K;) [i. e., of which the hemistichs are complete, not curtailed; (see الرَّمَلُ;)] consisting of three verses or more; (Akh, M, L, K;) or of sixteen or more; (M, L, K;) for it is usual to call that which consists of three verses, or ten, or fifteen, قِطْعَةٌ, and what consists of more than fifteen the Arabs call قصيدة: (IJ, M, L:) or, as Akh has once said, what is of the metre called الطَّوِيل, and البَسِيط that is complete, and الكَامِل that is complete, and المَدِيد that is complete, by which he means the first species thereof, which is the most complete that is in use, and الوَافِر that is complete, by which, in like manner, he means the first species thereof, and الرَّجَز that is complete, and الخَفِيف that is complete, and [ any ode, or] any poem that is sung by persons riding; but, he adds, we have not heard them sing what is of the metre called الخفيف: (M, L:) such poetry is thus termed because composed with purpose and consideration, and earnest endeavour to make it excellent; from قَصْدٌ as syn. with أَمٌّ: or because composed with care, and trimmed with excellent expressions and choice meanings, from قَصِيدٌ signifying “ thick and fat marrow; ” for the Arabs tropically apply to chaste, or eloquent, or excellent, language the epithet سَمِين, or “ fat: ” (L:) or because of its completeness, and the soundness of its measure. (M, L.) For the meanings of بَيْتُ القَصِيدَةِ, see بَيْتٌ; last sentence. -A5- See also قَصِدٌ.

قَصِيدَةٌ ذ : see قَصِيدٌ throughout.

طريق قَاصِدٌ ذ , (M, L,) and قَاصِدَةٌ, (A,) and ↓ قَصْدٌ, (A, Msb,) (tropical:) A direct, or right road, or way; a road, or way, having a direct, or right, tendency: (A, L:) an even, and a direct, or right, road, or way: (M, L:) an even road, or way. (Msb.) ― -b2- سَهْمٌ قَاصِدٌ (tropical:) An arrow rightly directed towards the animal at which it is shot: pl. سِهَامٌ قَوَاصِدُ. (A.) ― -b3- قَاصِدٌ Near. (S, K.) ― -b4- سَفَرٌ قَاصِدٌ An easy, short journey: (TA:) [ a moderately easy and short journey: ] a journey not difficult, nor extremely far. (Ibn-'Arafeh.) ― -b5- بَيْنَنَا وَبَيْنَ المَاآءِ لَيْلَةٌ قَاصِدَةٌ (tropical:) Between us and the water is an easy night's journey (S, K) without fatigue or tardiness: (S:) pl. لَيَالٍ قَوَاصِدُ. (TA.) ― -b6- مَاآءٌ قَاصِدٌ Water of which the herbage, or pasture, is near. (IAar, TA, voce مُطْلِبٌ.)

أَقصَدُ ذ [A more, or most, direct road]. (S, voce أَرْشَدُ.) ― -b2- عَلَيْكَ بِمَا هُوَ أَقْصَدُ وَأَقْسَطُ (tropical:) Keep thou to that which is most right and most just. (A.)

أَقْصَادٌ ذ : see قَصِدٌ.

[ مَقْصَدُ الكَلَامِ ذ means the intended sense of the saying; the meaning thereof: (see مَعْنًى in art. عنى:) مَقْصَدٌ being an inf. n. used as in the sense of the pass. part. n. of its verb, i. e. in the sense of ↓ مَقْصُودٌ; like as is generally said of its syn. مَعْنًى, of which مَقْصُودٌ is one of the explanations: hence it has a pl. مَقَاصِدُ: in the CK in art. غزو it is erroneously written مَقْصِد, which is the n. of place and of time from قَصَدَ. ― -b2- And in like manner مَقْصَدٌ signifies also A thing aimed at, intended, or purposed; an object of aim or pursuit: see 1: and ↓ مَقْصِدٌ, tropically used, has the same meaning.]

مَقْصِدٌ ذ , with kesr to the ص, A place to, or towards, which one tends, repairs, or betakes himself; to which one directs his course; at which one aims; which one seeks, pursues, endeavours to reach, desires, or wishes for; [pl. مَقَاصِدُ.] Ex. لَهُ مَقْصِدٌ مَعَيَّنٌ He has a specified place to which, or towards which, he tends, or repairs, &c. (Msb.) بَابُكَ مَقْصِدِى Thy door, or gate, is the place to which, or towards which, I tend, or repair, &c. (A.) ― -b2- مَقَاصِدُ الطَّرُقِ [ The right places to which roads tend ]; i. q. مَرَاشِدُهَا. (S, L, K, art. رشد.) See also مَقْصَدٌ.

مُقْصَدٌ ذ One who falls sick and quickly dies. (K.)

مُقْصِدٌ ذ [One who composes poems of the kind termed قَصَائِد: see 4: also,] and ↓ مُقَصِّدٌ, one who continues uninterruptedly, and prolongs, the composition of poems of the kind termed قصائد. (M, L.)

مَقْصَدَةٌ ذ [lit., A thing that causes people to repair to, or seek, or endeavour after, or desire, it ]. ― -b2- A woman great, and perfect, or complete, who pleases every one (K) that beholds her. (TA.) ― -b3- Also, (or, as some write it, ↓ مُقَصَّدَةٌ, TA,) A woman inclining to shortness. (K.)

مَقْصُودٌ ذ : see قَصْدٌ, قَصِيدٌ, and مَقْصَدٌ.

مُقَصَّدٌ ذ (tropical:) A man neither corpulent nor thin; as also ↓ مُقْتَصِدٌ and ↓ قَصْدٌ: (L, K:) or a man of moderate, or middle, stature; (ISh, L;) neither tall nor short, nor corpulent; (IAth, L;) as also قَصْدٌ: (ISh:) or a man &c. neither corpulent nor short. (Lth, L.) See مَقْصَدَةٌ.

مُقَصِّدٌ ذ : see مُقْصِدٌ.

فُلَانٌ مُقْتَصِدٌ فِى النَّفَقَةِ ذ (tropical:) Such a one acts in a moderate manner, in a manner between that of prodigality and that of parsimoniousness, in expense. (S, L.) See 1. And see مُقَصَّدٌ.

1 قَصُرَ ذ , aor. قَصُرَ , inf. n. قِصَرٌ (S, M, Msb, K, &c.) and قَصْرٌ (IAar, M, K) and قَصَارَةٌ, (Lh, M, K,) It (a thing, S, Msb, i. e. anything, M) was, or became, short; contr. of طَالَ. (S, M, Msb, K.) ― -b2- [And It was, or became, too short. And قَصُرَ عَنْهُ It was, or became, too short for him, or it. ― -b3- Hence, قَصُرَتْ يَدُهُ, and قَصُرَ بَاعُهُ, (tropical:) He had little, or no, power: and he was, or became, niggardly. ] -A2- And قَصَرَ السَّهْمُ عَنِ الهَدَفِ, (S, M, Msb,) aor. قَصُرَ , (Msb,) inf. n. قُصُورٌ, (M, Msb,) The arrow fell short of the butt; did not reach it; (S, Msb;) fell upon the ground without reaching the butt: (M:) and قَصَرَ عَنْ مَنْزِلِهِ [ he fell short of his place of alighting or abode; did not reach it ]. (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] قَصَرَ عَنِ الأَمْرِ, (S, Msb, K,) [and قَصَرَ دُونَهُ,] aor. قَصُرَ , (Msb, TA,) inf. n. قُصُورٌ; (S, Msb, K;) and ↓ اقصر, (K,) inf. n. اـِقَصَارٌ; (TA;) and ↓ قصّر, (K,) inf. n. تَقْصِيرٌ; (TA;) and ↓ تقاصر; (K;) [ He fell, or stopped, or came, short of doing the thing, or affair; he failed of doing, or accomplishing, it; ] he lacked power, or ability, to do, or accomplish, the thing, or affair; (S, Msb, K;) he could not attain to it: (S:) or the first has this signification; (ISk, S, Msb;) and [in like manner] عَنْهُ ↓ قصّر, (M, K,) inf. n. تَقْصِيرٌ, (TA,) he left or relinquished it, or abstained from it, being unable to do or accomplish it: (M, K:) but عَنْهُ ↓ اقصر, he desisted or abstained from it, being able to do or accomplish it: (ISk, S, M, Msb:) such, at least, is generally the case, though both sometimes occur in one and the same sense, that which اقصر عنه generally bears: (TA:) and فِى الأَمْرِ ↓ قصّر [ he fell, or stopped, or came, short in the affair: it signifies nearly the same as اقصر عنه, i. e., he fell short of accomplishing the affair; he fell short of doing what was requisite, or due, or what he ought to have done, (عَمَّا كَانَ يَنْبَغِى, or the like, being understood,) in, or with respect to, the affair: a meaning very common, and implied, though not expressed, in the M: and] he flagged, or was remiss, in the affair; syn. تَوَانَى: (S, TA:) or ↓ قصّر signifies he left, desisted from, neglected, or left undone, a thing, or part thereof, from inability: but ↓ اقصر, he left it, &c., or part thereof, with ability to do it. (Kull p. 128.) [And ↓ قصّر دُونَهُ He fell short of reaching, or attaining, it: see an ex. voce يَعْقُوبٌ.] [Hence also,] قَصَرَتْ بِنَا النَّفَقَةُ The money for expenses [ fell short of what we required; ] did not enable us to attain our object; (Msb;) meaning, that they were unable to pay the expenses: (Mgh:) and بِهِ ↓ قَصَّرَ أَمَلُهُ [ his hope fell short of what he required ]: 'Antarah says, فَا@لْيَوْمَ قَصَّرَ عَنْ تِلْقَائِكَ الأَمَلُ [ but to-day, hope hath fallen short of extending to the meeting with thee ]. (TA.) [And hence, app.,] بِكَذَا نَفْسُكَ ↓ قَصَّرَتْ [ Thy mind, or wish, fell short of what was requisite with respect to such a thing ], said to him who has sought, or desired, little, and a mean share or lot. (TA.) And, بِفُلَانٍ ↓ قَصَّرَ [ He fell short of what was required by such a one, or due to him; or] he acted meanly, and sparingly, with such a one, in a gift. [&c.] (JK [see مُقَصِّرٌ: and see two exs. of قَصَّرَ بِهِ voce أَزْرَى in art. زرى.] ― -b3- [Also, قَصَرَ عَنِ الأَمْرِ, (M, K,) aor. قَصُرَ , (M,) inf. n. قُصُورٌ; and ↓ اقصر; and ↓ قصّر and ↓ تقاصر; (M, K;) He refrained, abstained, or desisted, from the thing, or affair. (M, K.) A poet says, اـِذَا غَمَّ خِرْشَاآءُ الثُّمَالَةِ أَنْفَهُ مِنْهَا لِلصَّرِيحِ فَأَقْنَعَا ↓ تَقَاصَرَ [ When the froth of the water remaining in the drinking-trough covers his nose, he refrains from it, turning to the clear, and raises his head ]: or منها ↓ تقاصر here signifies he contracts his neck from it: and it is said that عنه ↓ قصّر signifies as explained above, he left or relinquished it, &c. (M.) قَصَرَ عَنِّى الوَجَعُ, and الغَضَبُ, (M, K,) aor. قَصُرَ , inf. n. قُصُورٌ, (M,) The pain, and anger, ceased from me; quitted me; (M, K;) as also قَصِرَ; (M, TA;) which latter is erroneously written in the copies of the K, قَصَّرَ: (TA:) and قَصَرْتُ أَنَا عَنْهُ [ I ceased from it ]. (M.) And ا@لْمَطَرُ ↓ أَقْصَرَ The rain left off. (TA.) -A3- قَدْ قَصَرَ العَشِىُّ, aor. قَصُرَ , inf. n. قُصُورٌ, [ The afternoon, or evening, has come, ] is said when you enter upon the مَسَاآء [i. e. afternoon, or evening]: (S:) or it means has almost drawn near to night. (TA.) [See also قَصْرٌ, below.] ― -b2- Hence, (S,) قَصَرْنَا and ↓ أَقْصَرْنَا We entered upon the عَشِىّ [i. e. afternoon, or evening ]; (M, K;) the former signifies أَمْسَيْنَا; and the latter, دَخَلْنَا فِى قَصْرِ العَشِىِّ, like as you say أَمْسَيْنَا from المَسَاآءُ: (S:) or the former, we came to be in the last part of the day; and the latter, we entered upon the last part of the day. (IKtt.) -A4- قَصَرَهُ, (Msb, K,) aor. قَصُرَ , (Msb,) or قَصِرَ , (K,) inf. n. قَصْرٌ; (TA;) and ↓ قصّرهُ, (M, Msb, TA;) inf. n. تَقْصِيرٌ; (TA;) and ↓ اقصرهُ; (Msb;) He made it short; (M, K, TA;) he shortened it; took from its length. (Msb.) You say قَصَرَ الشَّعَرَ, (M, Msb, K,) and قَصَرَ مِنَ الشَّعَرِ, (S,) aor. قَصُرَ , (Msb,) or قَصِرَ ; (K;) and ↓ قصّره, (Mgh, Msb, TA,) and مِنْهُ ↓ قصّر; (S;) and ↓ اقصرهُ; (Msb;) He shortened the hair; (M, K, * TA;) took from its length; (Msb;) cut its ends; (Mgh;) clipped, or shore, it. (TA.) And قَصَرَ الصَّلَاةَ, (M, Msb, TA,) and قَصَرَ مِنَ الصَّلَاةِ, (S, M, Msb,) aor. قَصُرَ , inf. n. قَصْرٌ; (S, M, Msb, TA;) and ↓ قصّرها, (M, Msb, TA,) and ↓ قصّر منها, (S, M,) inf. n. تَقْصِيرٌ; (S;) and ↓ اقصرها, (Msb, TA,) and ↓ اقصر منها; (S;) but اقصرها is extr.; (TA;) He curtailed [or contracted ] the prayer; (M;) he performed a prayer of four rek'ahs (رَكَعَات) making it of two; (Mgh;) in a journey. (Mgh, TA.) And الخُطْبَةَ ↓ اقصر He made the [ form of words called ] خطبة [ delivered from the pulpit ] short, or concise: (Mgh, TA: *) the [...]

2 قَصَّرَ see 1, throughout.

4 أَقْصَرَ see 1, throughout. -A2- أَقْصَرَتْ She brought forth short children: hence the saying, اـِنَّ الطَّوِيلَةَ قَدْ تُقْصِرُ وَاـِنَّ القَصِيرَةَ قَدْ تُطِيلُ [ Verily the tall woman sometimes brings forth short children, and verily the short woman sometimes brings forth tall children ]. (S, K. *) J is in error in saying that this is in a trad. (Sgh, K.) But IAth also asserts it to be a trad. (MF in art. طول.)

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.

8 اقتصر عَلَى الأَمْرِ ذ He confined, restricted, or limited, himself to the thing, or affair; did not exceed it. (M, K. *) ― -b2- اقتصر عَلَى الشَّىْءِ, (S,) or على كَذَا, (Msb,) [and بِكَذَا,] He was satisfied, or content, (S, Msb,) with the thing, (S,) or with such a thing. (Msb.) ― -b3- اقتصر عَلَى أَمْرِى He obeyed my command. (JK.)

10 استقصرهُ ذ He reckoned, or held, him, or it, to be short. (S.) ― -b2- He reckoned him, or held him, to fall short of doing what he ought to do: or to flagg, or be remiss: عَدَّهُ مُقَصِّرًا. (S.)

Q. Q. 2 تَقَوْصَرَ ذ , said of a man, (M,) He became contracted; lit., one part of him entered into another part; (M, K;) as though he became like a قَوْصَرَّة, from which word the verb is derived. (Z, TA.) ― -b2- See also 6.

قَصْرٌ ذ and ↓ قَصَرٌ and ↓ قُصْرَةٌ [like the inf. n. قُصُورٌ] The falling, or stopping, or coming, short of accomplishing an affair; or of doing what one ought, or is commanded, to do; or flagging, or remissness: you say to a man whom you have sent to accomplish some needful affair, and who has fallen short of doing what you commanded him to do, on account of heat or some other cause, مَا مَنَعَكَ أَنْ تَبْلُغَ المَكَانَ الَّذِى أَمَرْتُكَ بِهِ اـِلَّا أَنَّكَ أَحْبَبْتَ القَصْرَ, and القَصَرَ, and القُصْرَةَ, i. e. أَنْ تُقَصِّرَ [ Nothing prevented thy reaching the place to which I commanded thee to go but thy loving to fall short &c.; or to flag, or be remiss ]. (M, K *.) And ↓ قَصَرَةٌ, (K,) or ↓ قَصَرٌ, without ة, accord. to the Nawádir of IAar, as cited in the L, and so in the handwriting of Sgh, (TA,) and ↓ قَصَارٌ, (K,) signify Laziness; slothfulness. (IAar, Sgh, K.) An Arab of the desert is related to have said ↓ أَرَدْتُ أَنْ اآتِيَكَ فَمَنَعَنِى القَصَارُ [ I desired to come to thee, but laziness prevented me ]. (TA.) -A2- قَصْرُكَ أَنْ تَفْعَلَ كَذَا and ↓ قَصَارُكَ, (S, M, K,) and ↓ قُصَارُكَ, (M, K,) and ↓ قُصَارَاكَ, (S, M, K,) and ↓ قُصَيْرَاكَ, (M, K,) Thine utmost, or the utmost of thy power or of thine ability or of thy deed, (جُهْدُكَ, M, K, [or app., جَهْدُكَ, (see art. جهد,)] and غَايَتُكَ, S, M, K,) and the end of thy case, and that to which thou hast confined or restricted or limited thyself, (S, TA,) [or that to which thou art confined or restricted or limited, ] is, or will be, thy doing such a thing. (S, M, K.) It is from قَصْرٌ signifying the “ act of confining, restricting, limiting, ” &c. (TA.) And ↓ قُصْرَى also signifies the end of an affair. (Sgh, TA.) A poet says اـِنَّمَا أَنْفُسُنَا عَارِيَّةٌ وَا@لْعَوَارِىُّ قَصَارٌ أَنْ تُرَدْ [ Our souls are only a loan: and the end of loans is their being given back; تُرَدْ being for تُرَدَّ]. (S, TA.) You also say, كُلِّ بَلَاآءٍ وَشِدَّةٍ ↓ المَوْتُ قُصَارِى [ Death is the end of every trial and distress ]. (TA, art. حمأ.) -A3- قَصْرٌ (S, M) and ↓ مَقْصَرٌ (K) and ↓ مَقْصَرَةٌ and ↓ مَقْصِرٌ (M, K) The afternoon: or evening: syn. عَشِىٌّ: (S, M, K:) or the first signifies the last part of the day: (IKtt:) or the time before the sun becomes yellow: (JK:) or the first and second signify the time of the approach of the عَشِىّ, a little before the عَصْر: (A, TA:) and the first (S, K) and second (A'Obeyd, TA) and third, (A'Obeyd, S, TA,) [the time of ] the mixing of the darkness: (A'Obeyd, S, K, TA:) pl. of the second (TA) and third (S, M) and fourth, (M,) مَقَاصِرُ (S, M) and مَقَاصِيرُ, which latter is extr.; (M;) in the first sense, as signifying عَشَايَا; (M;) or in the last sense; (S;) not signifying, as it is said to do in the K, العِشَاآءُ الاآخِرَةُ; for this is a great mistake, app. occasioned by F's seeing the passage [in the T] of Az, [or in the M, in which I find it,] وَالمَقَاصِرُ وَالمَقَاصِيرُ العَشَايَا الأَخِيرَةُ نَادِرَةٌ, and not properly considering it. (TA.) Sb says, that قَصْرٌ has no dim.; the Arabs being content to use in its stead the dim. of مَسَاآءٌ. (M.) You say أَتَيْتُهُ قَصْرًا I came to him in the afternoon, or evening; syn. عَشِيًّا. (S.) And جِئْتُ قَصْرًا, and ↓ مَقْصَرًا, I came at the approach of the عَشِىّ, a little before the عَصْر. (A, TA.) And العِشَاآءِ ↓ أَقْبَلَتْ مَقَاصِيرُ [ The times of the mixing of the darkness of nightfall came, or advanced ]. (A, TA.) -A4- قَصْرٌ [ A palace: a pavilion, or kind of building wholly or for the most part isolated, sometimes on the top of a larger building, i. e., a belvedere, and sometimes projecting from a larger building, and generally consisting of one room if forming a part of a larger building or connected with another building; the same as the Turkish كوشك: to such buildings we find the appellation to have been applied from very early times to the present day:] a well-known kind of edifice: (M:) a mansion, or house; syn. مَنْزِلٌ: (Lh, M, K:) or any house or chamber (بَيْت) of stone; (M, K;) of the dial. of Kureysh: (M:) so called because a man's wives and the like are confined in it: (M:) pl. قُصُورٌ. (S, M, Msb.) قَصْرُ ا@لْمَلِكِ [ The palace, or pavilion, of the king ]. (Msb.) -A5- Also قَصْرٌ Large and dry, or large and thick, or dry, fire-wood; حَطَبٌ جَزْلٌ. (M, K.) So in the Kur, lxxvii. 32, accord. to El-Hasan, as related by Lh. (M.)

قَصَرٌ ذ : see قَصْرٌ, in two places. -A2- The necks of men, and of camels: (M, K:) a pl. [or rather coll. gen. n.], of which the sing. [or n. un.] is قَصَرَةٌ: (M:) [see an ex. in the first paragraph of art. سندر:] or [so accord. to the M, but in the K and] ↓ قَصَرَةٌ signifies the base of the neck; (S, M, K;) the base of the neck at the place where it is set upon the upper part of the back: (Nuseyr, TA:) or the base of the neck when thick; not otherwise: (Lh, M:) pl. [or coll. gen. n.] قَصَرٌ, and pl. pl. [or pl. of قَصَرٌ] أَقْصَارٌ: (M:) or this latter is pl. of قَصَرَةٌ, (M, K,) accord. to Kr, but this is extr., unless the augmentative letter in the sing. be disregarded in its formation. (M.) I'Ab reads كَا@لْقَصَرِ, in the Kur, lxxvii. 32, (S, M, * TA,) and explains it as meaning Like the thick bases of necks, (M, * TA,) or as meaning كَقَصَرِ النَّخْلِ, i. e. الأَعْنَاق. (S.) [See the next signification.] You say ذَلَّتْ قَصَرَتُهُ [ His neck or] the base of his neck became in a state of subjection. (TA.) And اـِنَّهُ لَنَامُّ القَصَرَةِ Verily he has a large, or thick, neck. (Aboo-Mo'ádh the Grammarian.) ― -b2- And hence, (Aboo-Mo'ádh,) (tropical:) The trunks, or lower-parts, (أُصُول, M, K, or أَعْنَاق, I'Ab, S,) of palm-trees: (S, M, K:) so explained in the Kur, ubi supra, (S, M,) by I'Ab: (S:) sing. [or n. un.] ↓ قَصَرَةٌ: the palm-tree is cut into pieces of the length of a cubit, to make fires therewith in the winter: (Aboo-Mo'ádh:) and [in the TA or] so of other trees: (M, K:) or of large trees: (Ed-Dahhák:) or [accord. to the M, but in the K and] the remains of trees. (M, K.)

قَصْرَةٌ ذ : see قُصْرَةٌ.

قُصْرَةٌ ذ : see قَصْرٌ. -A2- هُوَ ا@بْنُ عَمِّهِ قُصْرَةً, (S, M, K,) and ↓ قَصْرَةً, (K,) and ↓ مَقْصُورَةً, (S, M, K,) and ↓ قَصِيرَةً, (K,) [ He is his cousin on the father's side, ] nearly related; (S, M, K;) i. q. دِنْيًا (S, TA) and دُنْيًا: (TA:) and in like manner you say of the ابن العَمَّة and ابن الخَالَة and ابن الخَال. (Lh, M.)

قُصْرَى ذ : see قَصْرٌ. -A2- القُصْرَى (Az, S) and ↓ القُصَيْرَى (A'Obeyd, Az, S) The rib that is next to the شَاكِلَة [or flank ], (A'Obeyd, Az, S,) also called الوَاهِنَةُ, (S,) and ضِلَعُ الخِلْفِ, (A'Obeyd,) at the bottom of the ribs, (S,) between the side and the belly: (Az:) or the former is the lowest of the ribs, and the latter is the highest of the ribs: (AHeyth:) or the latter is the lowest of the ribs: or the last rib in the side: or the قُصْرَيَانِ and ↓ قُصَيْرَيَانِ are the two ribs that are next to the طَفْطَفَة [or flank ]: or that are next to the two collar-bones. (M, K.)

قَصَرَةٌ ذ : see قَصْرٌ: -A2- and قَصَرٌ, in two places: -A3- and مِقْصَرَةٌ.

قَصَارٌ ذ : and قَصَارُكَ and قُصَارُكَ: see قَصْرٌ.

قِصَارٌ ذ , a subst., The shortening [or clipping ] of the hair. (Th, M, K. *) Fr says, An Arab of the desert said to me in Minè, القِصَارُ أَحَبُّ اـِلَيْكَ أَمِ الحَلْقُ, meaning, Is the shortening [or clipping ] more pleasing to thee, or the shaving of the head? (M.)

قَصِيرٌ ذ Short; and low, i. e. having little height; contr. of طَوِيلٌ; (S, M, Msb, K;) and so ↓ قَاصِرٌ, app. a kind of rel. or possessive n., not a verbal epithet: (M:) fem. of the former [and of the latter] with ة: (M, K:) pl. of the former, masc., (S, M, Msb, K,) and fem., (M, K,) قِصَارٌ, (S, M, &c.,) and pl. masc. [applied to rational beings,] قُصَرَاآءُ, (M, K,) and pl. fem. قِصَارَةٌ; (K;) ة being added by the Arabs to any pl. of the measure فِعَالٌ, as in جِمَالَةٌ and حِبَالَةٌ and ذِكَارَةٌ and حِجَارَةٌ; (Fr;) or قِصَارَةٌ is syn. with قَصِيرَةٌ, and is extr. (Sgh, K.) ― -b2- قَصِيرَةٌ مِنْ طَوِيلَةٍ [lit. A short thing from a tall thing; meaning,] a date from a palm-tree: a proverb; alluding to the abridgment of speech or language. (K.) ― -b3- هُوَ قَصِيرُ اليَدِ, [and البَاعٍ, (tropical:) He has little, or no, power: or is niggardly: ] and لَهُمْ أَيْدٍ قِصَارٌ [ they have little, or no, power: or are niggardly ]. (TA.) ― -b4- قَصِيرُ الهِمَّةِ [ Having little ambition ]. (O in art. بجل.) ― -b5- اـِنَّهُ لَقَصِيرُ العِلْمِ (tropical:) [ Verily he has little knowledge ]. (M.) ― -b6- قَصِيرُ النَّسَبِ [ Having a short pedigree; ] whose father is well known, so that when the son mentions him it is sufficient for him, without his extending his lineage to his grandfather. (K.) [See also a verse below, in this paragraph.] ― -b7- حَدِيثٌ قَصِيرٌ, and ↓ مُقْتَصَرٌ, A [ concise, or] comprehensive, and profitable, story, or narration. (TA.) -A2- [ I. q. ↓ مَقْصُورٌ and ↓ مَقْصُورَةٌ, Shortened; contracted: and confined; restricted; limited; &c.] ― -b2- اـِمْرَأَةٌ قَصِيرُ الخُطَى, and الخَطْوِ ↓ مَقْصُورَةُ, [ A woman whose steps are shortened, or contracted; ] likened to one who is shackled, whose steps are shortened, or contracted, by the shackles. (Fr.) ― -b3- فَرَسٌ قَصِيرٌ A mare that is brought near [ to the tent or dwelling ], and treated generously, and not left to seek for pasture, because she is precious: (S, K:) and a mare that is kept confined. (TA.) ― -b4- قَصِيرَةٌ, [which is extr., for by rule it should be without ة,] and ↓ قَصُورَةٌ, (Az, S, M, K,) and ↓ مَقْصُورَةٌ, (K,) A woman confined in the house, or tent, not suffered to go forth: (S, M, K:) a woman kept behind, or within, the curtain: (TA, in explanation of the last of these three epithets:) a girl kept with care, that does not go out: (Az:) the pl. of قصورة is قَصَائِرُ:] [and so, app., of قصيرة:] when you mean short in stature, you say قَصِيرَةٌ [only], and the pl. is قِصَارٌ. (TA.) Kutheiyir says وَأَنْتِ الَّتِى حَبَّبْتِ كُلَّ قَصِيرَةٍ اـِلَىَّ وَمَا تَدْرِى بِذَاكَ القَصَائِرُ عَنَيْتُ قَصِيرَاتِ الحِجَالِ وَلَمْ أُرِدْ قِصَارَ الخُطَى شَرُّ النِّسَاآءِ البَحَاتِرُ (S, M) or, as Fr relates it, كُلَّ قَصُورَةً (S) [ And thou art the person who hath made every female confined within the house to be an object of love to me, while the females confined within the house know not that: I mean those confined within the curtained canopies: I do not mean the short in step: the worst of women are the short and compressed ]. And a poet says وَأَهْوَى مِنَ النِّسوَانِ كُلَّ قَصِيرَةٍ لَهَا نَسَبٌ فِى الصَّالِحِينَ قَصِيرُ [ And I love, of women, every one that is confined within the house, that has a short pedigree, among the good ]; i. e., every ↓ مَقْصُورَة, of whom it suffices to mention her descent from her father, because of his being well known. (M.) Hence, in the Kur, [lv. 72,] حُورٌ مَقْصُورَاتٌ فِى الخِيَامِ [ Damsels having eyes whereof the white is intensely white and the black intensely black, ] confined in the pavilions, (Az, Msb,) which are of pearls, for their husbands; (Az;) concealed by curtains: (Az, Bd:) or confined to their husbands, and not raising their eyes to others: (Fr:) or having their eyes restricted to their husbands. (Bd.) And ↓ نَاقَةٌ مَقْصُورَةٌ, (TA,) or مَقْصُورَةٌ عَلَى العِيَالِ, (Msb,) A she-camel retained [ restrictively ] for the household, that they [ alone ] may drink her milk. (Msb, TA. *) ― -b5- See also قُصْرَةٌ.

قُصَارَةٌ ذ : see مَقْصُورَةٌ.

قِصَارَةٌ ذ The art of [ beating and ] washing (Mgh) and whitening (M, Msb) clothes. (M, Mgh, Msb.)

قَصُورَةٌ ذ : see مَقْصُورَةٌ: and قَصِيرٌ.

قُصَارَى ذ . ― -b2- قُصَارَاكَ: see قَصْرٌ.

قُصَيْرَى ذ . ― -b2- قُصَيْرَاكَ: see قَصْرٌ. -A2- See also قُصْرَى.

قَصَّارٌ ذ One who beats (S) and washes (Mgh) and whitens (M, Msb, K) clothes; (S, M, &c.;) as also ↓ مُقَصِّرٌ. (M, K.)

قَاصِرٌ ذ : see قَصِيرٌ, first signification. -A2- اـِمْرأَةٌ قَاصِرَةُ الطَّرْفِ A woman restraining her eyes from looking at any but her husband. (S, K.) ― -b2- ظِلٌّ قَاصِرٌ (tropical:) Contracting shade. (TA.)

قَوْصَرَّةٌ ذ , and (sometimes, S,) قَوْصَرَةٌ, without teshdeed, A receptacle for dates, or for dried dates, (S, M, Mgh, Msb, K,) in which they are stored, made of mats, (S,) of reeds: (M, Mgh, Msb, K:) in common conventional language only so called as long as it contains dates: otherwise it is called زَبِيلٌ: (Mgh:) thought by IDrd to be not Arabic; (M;) and he doubts respecting the authenticity of a verse in which it is mentioned, ascribed to 'Alee: (TA:) pl. قَوَاصِرُ: (K, art. كنز; &c.:) the dim. is قُوَيْصِرَّةٌ and قُوَيْصِرَةٌ. (TA.) ― -b2- (tropical:) A woman, or wife; (IAar, K;) as also قَارُورَةٌ [q. v.]. (IAar, TA.)

أَقْصُرُ ذ More, and most, short: fem. قُصْرَى: (Mgh:) the pl. of أَقْصَرُ is أَقَاصِرُ. (S, K.)

تِقْصَارٌ ذ (S, M, K) and تِقْصَارَةٌ (S, K) A necklace, or collar, or the like, syn. قِلَادَةٌ, (S, M, K,) resembling a مِخْنَقَة: (S:) so called because it cleaves to the قَصَرَة [or base] of the neck: (M:) or a مِخْنَقَة proportioned to the قَصَرَة [or base of the neck ]: (A, TA:) pl. تَقَاصِيرُ. (S, K.)

رَضِىَ بِمَقْصَرٍ مِنَ الأَمْرِ ذ , and مِنْهُ ↓ بِمَقْصِرٍ, He was content with less than he was seeking, of the thing. (TA.) And مِمَّا كَانَ يُحَاوِلُ ↓ رَضِىَ بِمُقْصِرٍ with kesr to the ص, (S,) or بِمَقْصَرٍ مِنْهُ, (as in a copy of the M,) He was content with less than he was seeking. (S, M.) And رَضِيتُ مِنْ فُلَانٍ بِمَقْصَرٍ, and ↓ بِمَقْصِرٍ, I was content with an inferior thing from such a one. (M.) -A2- See also قَصْرٌ.