Lane's Lexicon (Edward Lane, 1863)

مَقْصِرٌ ذ : see مَقْصَرٌ: -A2- and قَصْرٌ.

جَاآءَ فُلَانٌ مُقْصِرًا ذ Such a one came when the afternoon, or evening, was almost drawing near to night. (TA.)

مَقْصَرَةٌ ذ : see قَصْرٌ.

مِقْصَرَةٌ ذ (M, K) and ↓ قَصَرَةٌ (M, TA) The wooden implement of the قَصَّار, (M, K,) with which he beats clothes: (M:) and the ↓ latter, a piece of wood, (M, K,) of any kind; or of the jujube-tree, specially. (TA.)

مُقَصِّرٌ ذ act. part. n. of 2, q. v. and see قَصَّارٌ. ― -b2- [ Deficient in liberality or bounty: ] one who makes a gift scanty, or mean. (TA.) A poet says فَقُلْتُ لَهُ قَدْ كُنْتَ فِيهَا مُقَصِّرًا [ And I said to him Thou hast been deficient in liberality with respect to them; app. meaning she-camels or the like;] i. e., thou hast not given of them nor given to drink from them [of their milk]. (M.)

مَقْصُورٌ ذ and مَقْصُورَةٌ: see قَصِيرٌ, in five places. ― -b2- See also قُصْرَةٌ. ― -b3- مَقْصُورَةٌ An ample or a spacious [ house or mansion such as is called a ] دار, which is defended by walls: (M, * K, * TA:) or it is less than a دار; (M, K;) as also ↓ قُصَارَةٌ; and is not entered by any but the owner: (K:) such a part of a house is called the مقصورة of a دار, and the قصارة thereof: (Useyd, TA:) any apartment (نَاحِيَةٌ), by itself, of a دار, when the latter is ample, or spacious, and defended by walls: (Lth, TA:) a [ chamber such as is called a ] حُجْرَة, of a house: (Mgh, Msb:) pl. مَقَاصِيرُ and مَقَاصِرُ. See an ex. voce مُصْمَتٌ. (Lth, TA.) And المَقْصُورَةٌ, (Lth,) and مَقْصُورَةُ مَسْجِدٍ, (Mgh, Msb,) and مَقْصُورَةُ جامِعٍ, (S,) The part which is the station of the Imám [or Khaleefeh ] in a mosque: (Lth, Mgh:) so called because confined [by a railing or screen]: (S:) or, accord. to some, مقصورة, thus applied, is changed from its original form, which is قَاصِرَةٌ, an act. part. n.: (Msb:) [and, as used in the present day, that part of a mosque which is the principal place of prayer, when it is partitioned off from the rest of the building: and the railing, or screen, which surrounds the oblong monument of stone or brick or wood over a grave in a mosque; sometimes enclosing a kind of baldachin over the monument. مَقْصُورَةٌ also signifies The chancel of a church: see مَذْبَحٌ.] And مَقْصُورَةٌ and ↓ قَصُورَةٌ A حَجَلَة [or kind of curtained canopy or baldachin, such as is prepared for a bride ]. (Lh, M, K.) And the former word, A piece of ground which none but the owner thereof is allowed to tread. (TA.)

مَقْصُورَةٌ ذ : see مَقْصُورٌ.

حَدِيثٌ مُقْتَصَرٌ ذ : see قَصِيرٌ.

قُصْطَاسٌ ذ and قِصْطَاسٌ dial. forms of قُسْطَاسٌ and قسْطَاسٌ. [q. v.] (K.)

See Supplement

1 قَٰضَّ ذ , (S, M, A, &c.,) aor. يَقُضُّ, (S, M, Msb,) inf. n. قَضٌّ, (M, Msb,) He bored, or perforated, a pearl, (S, M, A, K,) or a piece of wood. (Msb.) قَضَّ دُرَّةً is also used as signifying قَضَّ عَنْهَا صَدَفَهَا فَا@سْتَخْرَجَهَا [app. meaning He broke through the shell of the pearl so as to disclose it, and extracted it. ] (TA.) ― -b2- Also, (M, A, K,) aor. and inf. n. as above, (M,) He broke a thing: (M:) or he broke a stone with the مِقَضّ, q. v.: (A:) or he broke, brayed, crushed, or broke in pieces by beating, a thing; syn. دَقّ; (K;) as also ↓ قَضْقَضَ: (TA:) which latter also signifies he broke a thing in pieces [ in any manner ]. (M, TA.) You say also, قَضَّ الحَائِطَ, (A,) or الجِدَارَ, (TA,) meaning He threw down, pulled down, pulled to pieces, demolished, or destroyed, with violence, the wall. (A, TA.) And ↓ الأَسَدُ يُقَضْقِضُ فَرِيسَتَهُ (S, A) The lion breaks the limbs and bones of his prey. (A.) And جَنْبَهُ مِنْ صُلْبِهِ ↓ قَضْقَضْتُ I severed his side from his back-bone. (Sh.) ― -b3- [Hence,] قَضَّ عَلَيْهِمُ الخَيْلَ, (S, M, A [in the first and last قَضَضْنَا]) aor. as above, (M, A,) and so the inf. n., (M,) (tropical:) He sent, or sent forth, (M, TA,) or impelled, (TA,) [or dispersed, (see 7,)] the horses, or horsemen, against them, or upon them. (M, TA.) ― -b4- قَضَّ الوَتِدَ, (JK, O, K,) aor. and inf. n. as above, (TA,) He pulled out (قَلَعَ, in some copies of the K قَطَعَ,) the wooden pin or peg or stake. (JK, O, K, TA.) -A2- قَضَّ السَّوِيقَ, (Zj, K,) aor. and inf. n. as above, (Zj,) (tropical:) He put into the سويق [i. e. meal of parched barley, or gruel made thereof, ] something dry, or hard, such as sugar, or قَنْد [i. e. sugar-candy ]; (Zj, K;) as also ↓ أَقَضَّهُ: (A, Sgh, K:) and ↓ قَضْقَضَ signifies (tropical:) he put much sugar into his سويق. (IAar.) -A3- قَضِضْتُ الطَّعَامَ, (TA,) and قَضِضْتُ مِنْهُ, (S, M, K,) [aor. أَقَضُّ,] inf. n. قَضَضٌ, (M, TA,) I found pebbles, (S, M, K,) or dust, (M, K,) between my teeth in eating the food. (S, M, K.) ― -b2- قَضّ الطَّعَامُ, aor. يَقَضُّ, (S, A, K,) inf. n. قَضَضٌ, (A, TA,) The food had in it pebbles, (S, * A, * K, * TA,) or dust, (K, * TA,) which got between the teeth of the eater: (S, * K, * TA:) from قَضَضٌ [q. v.]: (S:) the verb is like عَلِمَ, in this sense as well as in that next preceding; intrans. as well as trans.: (TA:) and ↓ أَقَضَّ signifies [in like manner] it (food) had in it pebbles and dust. (TA.) And قَضَّ اللَّحْمُ, (IAar, M,) second pers. قَضِضْتَ, [aor. يَقَضُّ,] inf. n. قَضَضٌ, (M,) The flesh-meat had in it قَضَض [q. v.], which got between the teeth of its eater, like small pebbles: (IAar:) or fell upon pebbles, or dust, which one consequently found in the eating of it. (M.) And قَضَّتِ البَضْعَةُ بِالتُّرَابِ The piece of flesh-meat had some dust upon it; as also ↓ أَقَضَّت. (M, K.) An Arab of the desert, describing the effect of rains, said, لَوْ أَلْقَيْتَ بَضْعَةً مَا قَضَّتْ, i. e. [ If thou wert to throw down a piece of flesh-meat, ] it would not become dusty; meaning, by reason of the abundance of the herbage. (M.) You say also, قَضَّ المَكَانُ, aor. يَقَضُّ, inf. n. قَضَضٌ, The place had in it, or upon it, قَضَض [or small pebbles, or dust ]; as also ↓ أَقَضَّ; (M, K;) and ↓ استقضّ. (K.) And قَضَّ الفِرَاشُ, aor. and inf. n. as in the next preceding instance, The bed became overspread with dust. (M.) And عَلَيْهِ المَضْجَعُ ↓ أَقَضَّ (S, M, A, K *) The bed, or place where he lay upon his side, was, or became, rough to him, and dusty: (S, K: *) or had قَضَض, or small pebbles, upon it: (TA:) or was, or became, uneasy to him; as also قَضَّ عليه: (M, TA:) or both signify he did not sleep: or his sleep was uneasy. (TA.) And [hence] عَلَيْهِ الهَمُّ ↓ أَقَضَّ (assumed tropical:) [ Grief, or anxiety, disquieted him ]. (A, TA.)

4 أَقْضَ3َ see 1, in six places; from قَضَّ السَّوِيقَ to the end of the paragraph. -A2- اقضّ ا@للّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ المَضْجَعَ God rendered the bed, or the place where he lay upon his side, rough to him, and dusty: thus the verb is trans. as well as intrans. (S, K. *) And اقضّ الشَّىْءَ He left the thing [ consisting of, or overspread with, ] small pebbles. (K, * TA.)

5 تَقَضَّضَ ذ and تَقَضَّى : see 7.

7 انقضّ ذ It (a thing) broke, or became broken. (Msb.) Said of a wall, it signifies the same: (T, Msb, TA:) or it became thrown down, pulled down, pulled to pieces, demolished, or destroyed, with violence: (A:) or it fell down: (S:) or it cracked, without falling down; (M, K;) as also اِنْقَاضَّ [from نَقَضَ]; inf. n. [of the former] اِنْقِضَاضٌ; (K;) [and اِنْقَاضَ, inf. n. اِنْقِيَاضٌ;] but if it fall, you say, تَقَيَّضَ, inf. n. تَقَيُّضٌ: so says AZ: (TA:) A 'Obeyd and others reckon it a biliteral-radical word, belonging to this art.; (M;) or AZ reckons it as such; (TA;) but Aboo- 'Alee makes it a triliteral-radical, [like its syn. اِنْقَاضَّ,] from نَقَضَ, holding its measure to be اِفْعَلَّ. (M, TA.) ― -b2- It became cut in pieces. (TA.) ― -b3- [And hence,] انقضّت أَوْصَالُهُ (assumed tropical:) His connections became sundered, or separated. (TA.) [See also انفضّ.] ― -b4- [And from انقضّ as explained above on the authority of the S, or of the A, is derived the phrase] انقضّ الطَّائِرُ (S, M, A, &c.) (tropical:) The bird dropped down (S, M, Mgh, Msb, K) swiftly from the air, (Mgh,) in its flight, (S, Msb,) to alight (M, K, TA) upon a thing; (TA;) [i. e. pounced down, darted down, or made a stoop; ] as also ↓ تَقَضَّضَ and ↓ تَقَضَّى, (M, K,) the latter of which is formed by permutation; (M;) or only the latter of these two is used; (S;) or the latter of them is the more chaste; (TA;) for the three dáds are found difficult of pronunciation, and therefore one of them is changed into yé, like as is the case in تَظَنَّى [for تَظَنَّنَ], from الظَّنٌّ, (S, TA,) and تَمَطَّى for تَمَطَّطَ. (TA.) You say, انقضّ البَازِى عَلَى الصَّيْدِ The hawk [ made a stoop, or] flew down swiftly upon the prey, or quarry. (TA.) ― -b5- Hence, (S,) انقضّ said of a star, or an asterism, (S, A,) (tropical:) [ It darted down: or] it dropped down. (TA.) ― -b6- Hence also, (TA,) انقضّت عَلَيْهِمْ الخَيْلُ (tropical:) The horses, or horsemen, rushed, or went swiftly, upon them, or against them: (S, * TA:) or dispersed themselves, or became dispersed, against them, or upon them. (M, K.)

8 اقتضّها ذ (tropical:) He devirginated her; (S, M, A, Mgh, Msb, K;) namely a girl, (S, A, Mgh,) or a woman; (M;) or either, i. e. before and after puberty; whereas ابتكرها and ابتسرها and اختضرها are only used as meaning before puberty: (Msb:) and افتضّها, with ف, signifies the same as اقتضّها. (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] اقتضّ الاـِدَاوَةَ (assumed tropical:) He opened the head [or mouth ] of the اداوة [or water-skin ]. (TA.)

10 اـِسْتَقْضَ3َ see 1, near the end. -A2- استقضّ مَضْجَعَهُ He found his bed, or the place where he lay upon his side, to be rough. (S, K.) ― -b2- [And hence,] استقضّ الهَمَّ (assumed tropical:) [ He found grief, or anxiety, to be disquieting to him ]. (A, TA.)

R. Q. 1 قَضْقَضَ ذ : see 1, first half, in four places: and see قَضْقَضَةٌ, below.

R. Q. 2 تَقَضْقَضَ ذ It broke, or became broken, into pieces: (M:) it separated, or dispersed; or became separated, or dispersed; (K, TA;) said of a company of men, in a trad. (TA.)

قَضٌّ ذ A place in which are قَضَض, (M, K,) meaning small pebbles, or dust; (M;) as also ↓ قَضِضٌ. (M, K.) And أَرْضٌ قَضَّةٌ, (M,) or ↓ قَضَّةٌ [alone, as though a subst.], (K,) and ↓ قِضَّةٌ, (S, K,) Land in which are pebbles: (S, M, K:) and land abounding with stones: (M:) or low, or depressed, land, the ground of which is sand, and by the side of which is plain, or hard, and elevated land: (Lth in explanation of the last of these words, and K:) pl. of the last, قِضَضٌ. (Lth.) Also, Food in which are pebbles and dust: (TA:) and flesh-meat that has fallen upon pebbles, or dust, (M,) or upon stones, or pebbles, (TA,) which one consequently finds in eating it: (M, TA:) and anything having dust in it, or upon it; as food, or a garment, &c.: (M, TA:) and [in like manner] ↓ قَضِضٌ, (S,) or ↓ قَضَضٌ, (K,) but when applied to a place, the author of the K writes it قَضِضٌ, (TA,) food containing pebbles, (S, K,) or dust, (K,) getting between the teeth of the eater. (S, K.) -A2- See also قَضَضٌ, in two places.

قَضَّةٌ ذ : see قِضَّةٌ, in four places. -A2- Also, of a star, or an asterism, (tropical:) i. q. نَوْءٌ [here signifying The dawn-setting thereof; for it is] from اـِنْقَضَّ said of a star, or asterism. (TA.) So in the saying (TA) أَتَيْنَا عِنْدَ قَضَّةِ النَّجْمِ (tropical:) [ We came at the dawnsetting of the asterism, meaning the Pleiades ]. (A, * TA.) And مُطِرْنَا بِقَضَّةِ الأَسَدِ (tropical:) [ We were rained upon, or we had rain at, lit. by means of, the dawn-setting of the Lion ]. (A, TA.) -A3- See also قَضَضٌ, in three places. -A4- And see قَضٌّ.

قِضَّةٌ ذ , (M, K,) or ↓ قَضَّةٌ, (A,) (tropical:) [ Devirgination ]; a subst. from اـِقْتَضّ in the former of the two senses assigned to it above. (M, K.) You say, لَيْلَةَ عُرْسِهَا ↓ كَانَ ذٰلِكَ عِنْدَ قَضَّتِهَا (tropical:) [ That was on the occasion of her devirgination, on the night of her being conducted to her husband ]. (A, TA.) -A2- Also the former, (S, M, Msb,) or ↓ latter, (A, Mgh,) or both, (K,) (tropical:) The virginity, or maidenhead, (S, M, Mgh, Msb, K,) of a girl, (S, Mgh, K,) or of a woman, (M,) or of both. (Msb.) You say, أَخَذَ قِضَّتَهَا, (Lh, M,) and ↓ ذَهَبَ بِقَضَّتِهَا, (A, Mgh,) (tropical:) He took her virginity. (Lh, M, Mgh.) -A3- See also قَضَضٌ. -A4- And see قَضُّ.

قَضَضٌ ذ A thing broken, brayed, crushed, or broken in pieces by beating: (TA:) pebbles broken in pieces and crushed: (TA:) or, as also ↓ قَضَّةٌ, pebbles broken into small pieces: (K:) or small pebbles broken in pieces: (A:) or, accord. to some, the former is pl. [or rather a quasi-pl. n.] of the latter: (TA:) or both signify pebbles, and dust: (TA:) or the former signifies small pebbles; (S, M;) as also ↓ قِضَّةٌ, (S, K,) and ↓ قَضَّةٌ, (K,) and ↓ قَضِيضٌ, accord. to IAar, as is said by IAth and Sgh and the author of the L, not ↓ قَضٌّ, as is said in the K, for this signifies large pebbles, accord. to IAar, as is said by the three authors mentioned above as citing him, and the author of the K has erred in assigning this last meaning to ↓ قَضِيضٌ: (TA:) or ↓ قَضٌّ signifies pebbles; and ↓ قَضِيضٌ is a pl. [or rather a quasi-pl. n.] thereof: (AHeyth, L:) and قَضَضٌ also signifies dust that overspreads a bed. (M, K.) You say, اـِتَّقِ القَضَضَ فِى طَعَامِكَ, and ↓ القَضَّةَ, Beware thou of the pebbles and dust in thy food. (TA.) -A2- See also قَضٌّ.

قَضِضٌ ذ : see قَضٌّ, in two places.

قَضِيضٌ ذ : see قَضَضٌ, in three places. ― -b2- Also, (tropical:) Small pieces of food; as being likened to small pebbles. (Kt.)

قَضْقَضَةٌ ذ The sound of the breaking of bones. (S.) ― -b2- [See also R. Q. 1., of which it is the inf. n.]

مِقَضٌّ ذ An instrument with which stones are broken, (JK, A, TA,) resembling a قَدُوم, q. v. (JK.)

1 قَضِئَ السِّقَاآءُ ذ , (K,) or قَضِئَتِ القِرْبَةُ, aor. قَضَاَ , inf. n. قَضَأٌ, (AZ, S, O, K,) The water-skin became rotten, and fell in pieces, (AZ, S, O, K, TA,) as is the case when it has been folded while damp. (TA.) You say ↓ سِقَاآءٌ قَضِئٌ (TA) and ↓ قِرْبَةٌ قَضِئَةٌ. (AZ, S, O.) ― -b2- And قَضِئَ said of a garment, (S, O, TA,) or of a rope, (K, TA,) It became old and worn out, and dissundered, (K, TA,) and rotten, (S, * O, * TA,) when said of a garment, (S, O,) from being long moist and folded: (S, O, TA:) or, said of a rope, it broke in pieces in consequence of its having been long buried in the earth. (K, TA.) ― -b3- And قَضِئَتِ العَيْنُ, (K, TA,) aor. and inf. n. as above, (TA,) The eye became red, and flaccid in its inner angle, and in an unsound, or a corrupt, state, (K, TA,) ulcerated, or sore. (TA.) You say ↓ عَيْنٌ قَضِئَةٌ. (TA.) And فِى ↓ عَيْنِهِ قُضْأَةٌ (S, O, TA) meaning In his eye is unsoundness, or corruptness [&c.]. (S, O.) ― -b4- And قَضِئَ حَسَبُهُ, inf. n. قَضَأٌ (K, TA) and قَضَأَةٌ or قَضَاآءَةٌ, (accord. to different copies of the K,) in the L the latter of these, and قُضُوْءٌ also, (TA,) His حَسَب [or grounds of pretension to respect or honour ] were unsound, (K, TA,) and faulty. (TA.) -A2- قَضِئَ, (El-Umawee, S, O, K,) aor. قَضَاَ , inf. n. قَضْءٌ, (El-Umawee, S, O, [and the same is indicated in the K,]) He ate (El-Umawee, S, O, K) a thing; said of a man. (El-Umawee, S, O.)

4 اقضأهُ ذ He gave him to eat; (S, O, K;) namely, a man: (S, O:) some say that it is with ف: (TA in this art.:) but Sh says that it is with ق, after mentioning افضاآه as transmitted from A 'Obeyd from As (TA in art. فضا.)

5 تَقَضَّؤُوا مِنْهُ أَنْ يُزَوِّجُوهُ ذ They accounted his grounds of pretension to respect or honour [ too ] low [ for them to marry him ], or [ too ] mean, (Ibn-Buzurj, K, TA,) and [ too ] faulty. (Ibn-Buzurj, TA.) ― -b2- See also تَفَسَّأَ.

قَضِئٌ ذ part. n. of قَضِئَ; and its fem, with ة: see 1, in three places.

قَضْأَةٌ ذ : see the following paragraph.

فِى عَيْنِهِ قُضْأَةٌ ذ : see 1. ― -b2- One says also, مَا عَلَيْكَ فِى هٰذَا الأَمْرِ قُضْأَةٌ i. e. [ There is not ] any disgrace [ to be imputed to thee in, or in respect of, this affair ]. (S, O.) And فِى حَسَبِهِ قُضْأَةٌ (S, O, K) and ↓ قَضْأَةٌ (K) [ In his grounds of pretension to respect or honour is ] faultiness, (S, O, K,) and unsoundness. (K.) And نَكَحَ فِى قُضْأَةٍ (S, O, TA) He married in a disparaging manner. (TA.)

1 قَضَبَهُ ذ , (S, M, A, &c.,) aor. قَضِبَ , (M, Mgh, Msb, K,) inf. n. قَضْبٌ, (M, Mgh, O, Msb,) He cut it, or cut it off; (S, M, A, Mgh, O, Msb, K;) as also ↓ اقتضبهُ; (M, Msb, K;) and ↓ قضّبهُ; (M, K;) [or this last is used in an intensive sense, or in relation to a number of objects:] you say, قَضَبَ الغُصْنَ [ He cut off the branch ]; and غُصْنًا مِنْ شَجَرَةٍ ↓ اقتضب [ He cut off a branch from a tree ]; and فُضُولَ أَغْصَانِ الشَّجَرِ ↓ قضّب [ He cut off the redundant portions of the branches of the trees ], inf. n. تَقْضِيبٌ. (A.) -A2- See also 8, in two places. -A3- And قضَبَهُ, (S, O, K, JM,) aor. in this case قَضُبَ , (JM,) inf. n. قَضْبٌ, (S, TA,) He struck him, or beat him, (i. e. a man, K,) with a قضيب, (S, O, K, JM,) i. e. a rod, or stick, or the like. (TA.)

2 قَضَّبَ see the preceding paragraph, in two places. ― -b2- [Hence,] قضّب الكَرْمَ, (S, M,) inf. n. تَقْضِيبٌ, (S,) He cut (S, M) the branches, (S,) or some of the branches, (M,) of the grape-vine, [i. e. he pruned it, ] in the days of the رَبِيع [or spring ]. (S, M.) -A2- And قضّبت الشَّمْسُ, (M, O, K,) inf. n. as above; (O, K;) The sun extended its rays, or beams, (M, O, K,) like قُضْبَان [or rods ]; (M;) as also ↓ تقضّبت: (M, O, K:) used by a rájiz in describing the sun when it had risen appearing like a shield, without rays, or beams. (IAar, M.)

4 اقضبت الأَرْضُ ذ (M, K, * TA) The land produced, (M, TA,) or produced abundantly, (K, [but SM states that he had not found it thus expl. in any lexicon except the K,]) the plant called قَضْب which is eaten when freshly cut. (M, K, TA.)

5 تَقَضَّبَ see 7: ― -b2- and see also 2.

7 انقضب ذ It was, or became, cut, or cut off; (S, M, O, Msb, K;) and so ↓ تقضّب [but app. in an intensive sense or said of a number of things]. (M, K.) ― -b2- And [hence] (tropical:) He became cut off, or separated, from his companions. (A.) ― -b3- And, said of a star, (tropical:) It darted down (TA) from its place. (S, A, O.) Dhu-r-Rummeh says, (S, A, O,) describing a wild bull [i. e. a bovine antelope], (O,) كَأَنَّهُ كَوْكَبٌ فِى اـِثْرِ عِفْرِيَةٍ ↓ مُسَوَّمٌ فِى سَوَادِ اللَّيْلِ مُنْقَضِبُ [ As though he were a star launched forth in the darkness of night, darting down after an evil demon ]. (S, A, O.)

8 اـِقْتَضَبَ see 1, in two places. You say, اِقْتَضَبْتُهُ, meaning I cut it off from the thing. (S, O.) ― -b2- And [hence] one says, كَانَ يُحَدِّثُنَا فُلَانٌ فَجَاآءَ زَيْدٌ فَا@قْتَضَبَ حَدِيثَهُ, meaning اِقْتَطَعَهُ and اِنْتَزَعَهُ [i. e. Such a one was talking to us, and Zeyd came, and broke off his talk, and turned it to what was wholly different in subject, or to what had but little connection with the subject of the former discourse: an ex. of a common conventional usage of اقتضب, mentioned in rhetorical treatises &c.; as when a poet breaks off his نَسِيب to enter upon the main subject of his ode]. (A.) ― -b3- And اقتضب (tropical:) He extemporized, or uttered without having prepared it, (S, M, A, O,) speech, (S, A, O,) or a narrative, and poetry, or verses. (M.) ― -b4- And (tropical:) He rode (S, A, K) a beast, (S,) or a she-camel, (A,) before it, or she, was trained, or broken-in; (S, A, K;) and (S, K) so ↓ قَضَبَ, (S, O, K,) aor. قَضَبَ. (K.) And (TA) (assumed tropical:) He took from the camels, and trained, one in an untrained state; (M, K;) as also ↓ اقتضبهُ. (TA.) And (assumed tropical:) He rode a young camel for a night, before it was trained. (TA.) ― -b5- And قَضْبٌ (assumed tropical:) He tasked him to do a deed, or work, before he was able to do it well. (M.) ― -b6- And (tropical:) He slaughtered him, namely, a camel, in a state of freedom from disease and in a fat and youthful condition. (A.)

قَضْبَةٌ ذ Such as are cut, and eaten in their fresh state, of plants, (M, Msb, K,) of any kind; as is said in the Bári'; (Msb;) a pl. [or rather coll. gen. n.] of which the sing. [or n. un.] is ↓ قَضْبَةٌ: (K:) or it signifies, (S, O, Msb,) or signifies also, (K,) [ a species of trefoil, or clover; i. e.] i. q. رَطْبَةٌ, (S, O, Msb,) which is the same as فِصْفِصَة, (Msb,) or قَتٌّ, [which is also the same,] (K,) the name by which the people of Mekkeh call قَتّ, (Fr, TA,) and (K) called in Pers. (S, O) اـِسْفِسْت, (S, Mgh, K,) or اـِسْبِسْت; (O;) as also ↓ قَضْبَةٌ; (S;) or this is the sing. [or rather n. un.] of قَضْبٌ, which signifies فَصَافِصُ [pl. of فِصْفِصَةٌ]; (M;) called قَضْبٌ because it is cut. (Mgh.) ― -b2- And Any tree of which the branches grow long and lank: (K, * TA:) بَسَطَتْ in the K is a mistranscription for سَبِطَتْ. (TA.) ― -b3- And Certain trees from which bows are made; (En-Nadr, O, K;) said to be of the kind called نَبْعٌ. (O.) AHn says that قضب [accord. to the L and TA app. قَضْبٌ, but accord. to a copy of the M ↓ قَضَبٌ, which I think a mistranscription,] is the name of Certain trees of the plains, or soft tracts, growing among collections of [ other ] trees; having leaves like those of the pear-tree, except that they are thinner, and more soft; and as trees [ in general ] resembling pear-trees: the camels feed upon its leaves and the extremities of its branches; but when the camel has become satiated therewith, he forsakes it for a time, for it sets his teeth on edge, and irritates his chest, and occasions him cough. (M, L, TA.) And ↓ قَضْبَةٌ [as n. un. of قَضْبٌ] signifies A tree from which arrows are made: one says سَهْمُ قَضْبٍ [ An arrow made from the species of tree called قضب]; like as one says سَهْمُ نَبْعٍ &c. (ISh, TA. [See also قَضْبَةٌ below.]) ― -b4- It is also a name applied to Portions that one has cut from branches to make thereof arrows or bows. (O, K. *) ― -b5- See also قَضِيبٌ.

قَضَبٌ ذ : see the next preceding paragraph.

قَضْبَةٌ ذ : see قَضْبٌ, in three places. ― -b2- Also i. q. قَضِيبٌ (K, TA) as meaning The bow thus called: (TA:) see the latter word: or an arrow-shaft from a tree of the species called نَبْع, whereof (مِنْهُ [for which the CK has فيهِ]) an arrow [ in the complete state ] is made: pl. قَضَبَاتُ. (M, K. [In the TA, the pl. is said to be قَضْبَاتٌ, with fet-h and sukoon; but this, as pl. of a subst. of the class of قَبْضَةٌ, is anomalous.])

قِضْبَةٌ ذ A portion of a herd of camels; and of a flock, or herd, of sheep or goats. (O, K.) -A2- And Such as is slender, and light, or active; as an epithet applied to a she-camel, and in like manner to a man. (O, K. *)

قَضِيبٌ ذ , as an epithet applied to a branch, i. q. مَقْضُوبٌ [i. e. Cut off ]. (M voce فَنَنٌ, and Msb. *) ― -b2- And [as a subst., A rod, stick, wand, branch, twig, switch, shoot, or stalk; ] a غُصْن [i. e. branch from the stem or from another branch, of a tree ], (S, M, O, Msb, K,) [and particularly] that is cut off: (M, Msb:) pl. قُضْبَانٌ (S, M, O, Msb, K) and قِضْبَانٌ (M, O, Msb, K, but this is less approved, TA) and قُضُبٌ, and ↓ قَضْبٌ is a quasi-pl. n. (M, TA.) [Hence] one says, مَلَكَ البُرْدَةَ وَالقَضِيبَ (tropical:) [lit. He became possessor of the burdeh and the rod ], meaning اُسْتُخْلِفَ [i. e. he became a successor ]. (A.) ― -b3- And A bow made of a rod, or branch, (AHn, M, K) in its complete state: (AHn, M:) or one made of a rod, or branch, not split: (M, K:) also called ↓ قَضْبَةٌ. (TA.) ― -b4- And (assumed tropical:) The quill of a feather. (TA voce بَطْنٌ.) ― -b5- And (tropical:) The virga, nervus, or yard, (AHát, T, K, TA,) of a bull, (AHát, TA,) or of a man, and of an animal other than man, (T, TA,) or of an ass, &c. (S, * TA.) ― -b6- And (assumed tropical:) A slender arrow: pl. قُضُبٌ. (As, TA.) ― -b7- And (assumed tropical:) A slender sword; contr. of صَفِيحَةٌ: pl. قَوَاضِبُ and قُضُبٌ: (IAth, TA:) or (tropical:) slender as an epithet applied to a sword; (M, A, K; *) likened to the قَضِيب of the tree. (A.) ― -b8- See also قَاضِبٌ. -A2- Also (tropical:) A she-camel that has not been trained, or broken-in: (S, K:) or that has been ridden (A, M) before she has been trained, (A,) or before she has been rendered gentle: (M:) or that has not acquired expertness in being trained: and applied also to the male. (M.)

قَضَابَةُ شَجَرٍ ذ , (S, M, * A, O,) and كَرْمٍ, (A,) What falls in consecutive portions, of the extremities of the branches of trees, when they are lopped, or pruned, (S, M, * A, * O,) and of a grape-vine: (A:) or you say قُضَابَةُ شَىْءٍ, meaning what is [or are ] cut off, of a thing. (M, K.)

قَضَّابٌ ذ : see قَاضِبٌ. ― -b2- Also One whose habitual work or occupation is that of cutting [app. in a general sense]. (Ham p. 490.)

قُضَّابٌ ذ A certain plant. (Kr, M.)

قَضَّابَةٌ ذ : see قَاضِبٌ. ― -b2- One says also, مَا فِى فَمِى قَضَّابَةٌ There is not in my mouth a tooth that will cut a thing so as to separate one half of it from the other half. (TA.) ― -b3- And رَجُلٌ قَضَّابَةٌ (tropical:) A man who often exercises the faculty of deciding affairs; (قَطَّاعٌ لِلْأَمُورِ; S, M, A, K;) possessing ability to execute, or perform, them. (S, A.)

قَاضِبٌ ذ and ↓ قَضِيبٌ (S, M, Msb, K) and ↓ قَضَّابٌ and ↓ قَضَّابَةٌ and ↓ مِقْضَبٌ, (M, K,) as epithets applied to a sword, Very sharp, or sharply-cutting: (S, M, Msb, K:) or the first signifies [simply] cutting, or sharp: (O:) [and the last but one is doubly intensive, signifying very sharply-cutting: ] the pl. (of the first, O) is قَوَاضِبُ (S, O) and [of the second] قُضُبٌ. (S.)

مِقْضَبٌ ذ and ↓ مِقْضَابٌ i. q. مِنْجَلٌ [as meaning A reaping-hook and also a pruning-hook ]. (O, K.) ― -b2- For the former, see also قَاضِبٌ.

مَقْضَبَةٌ ذ A place in which grows [ the species of trefoil, or clover, called ] قَضْب, (T, S, M, * O, * K, *) i. e. (S, K) رَطْبَة, which is called in Pers. (S) اـِسْفِسْت: (S, K; and the like is said in the M:) pl. مَقَاضِبُ, and by poetic license مَقَاضِيبُ. (O.) And A place in which grow the trees called قَضْب from which bows are made. (K.)