Lane's Lexicon (Edward Lane, 1863)

5 تَقَنَّصَ see 1.

8 اـِقْتَنَصَ see 1, in two places. ― -b2- As being likened to “ the taking ” of the object of the chase, الاِقْتِنَاصُ signifies (tropical:) The taking anything quickly. (Kull.) ― -b3- [And hence, (assumed tropical:) The apprehending quickly. ]

قَنَصٌ ذ [originally an inf. n.] What is taken, captured, caught, insnared, entrapped, hunted, or chased, of wild animals or the like; as also ↓ قَنِيصٌ. (S, M, A, K.)

قَنِيصٌ ذ : see قَنَصٌ: -A2- and قَانِصٌ, in two places.

قَنَّاصٌ ذ : see قَانِصٌ.

قَانِصٌ ذ One who takes, captures, catches, insnares, entraps, hunts, or chases, wild animals or the like; as also ↓ قَنِيصٌ (S, M, A, K) and ↓ قَنَّاصٌ: (S, M, K:) or ↓ قَنِيصٌ signifies persons who do so, collectively; and is [a quasi-pl. n.] similar to كَلِيبٌ and مَعِيزٌ and حَمِيرٌ: (IJ, TA:) the pl. of قَانِصٌ is قُنَّاصٌ: (A, TA:) and ↓ قَانِصَةٌ signifies the same as the pl.: and also low, vile; or mean, persons. (TA. [See also طُمْرُورٌ, in an explanation of which the sing. قَانِصٌ is app. used in like manner.]) You say, جَاآءَ القَنِيصُ بِالْقَنِيصِ The sportsman came with the game taken. (A.) And it is said in a trad., فَتُخْرِجُ النَّارُ عَلَيْهِمْ قَوَانِصَ (assumed tropical:) [ And the fire of hell shall send forth against them snatchers ]; meaning, it shall snatch them in pieces like as the beast or bird of prey snatches its prey: the sing. is ↓ قَانِصَةٌ: (K, TA:) or, as some say, the meaning is, sparks like the قَوَانِص of birds, i. e., their حَوَاصِل. (TA.) See what follows.

قَانِصَةٌ ذ : see قَانِصٌ, in two places. ― -b2- Also, sing. of قَوَانِصٌ, which signifies [The intestines, or bowels, of a bird, into which the food passes from the stomach; ] in a bird, what the مَصَارِين are in other creatures: (S, K:) or the pl. [or sing. (K, art. جرأ,)] signifies i. q. جِرِّئَةٌ: (L, TA:) or the قَانِصَة is, in a bird, like the حَوْصَلَة [or lower part of the belly ] in a man: (M, TA:) or [the stomach, or triple stomach, or the crop, or craw, of a bird; ] in a bird, like the كَرِش [ in other creatures ]: (TA:) [see الجِرِّئَهٌ:] or a thing like a little burrow in the belly of a bird: (T, A, L:) [in the present day it is applied to the gizzard, or true stomach, which is perhaps meant by the last of the preceding explanations; and is also pronounced قَوْنِصَة:] or the pl., in relation to a bird, signifies i. q. حَوَاصِل [pl. of حَوْصَلَة]: (TA:) the word is also written with س; but is better with ص. (TA.)

1 قَنَطَ ذ , aor. قَنِطَ ; and قَنَطَ, aor. قَنُطَ ; and قَنِطَ, aor. قَنَطَ ; (S, Msb, K;) and قَنُطَ, aor. قَنُطَ ; (K;) and قَنَطَ, aor. قَنَطَ ; and قَنِطَ, aor. قَنِطَ ; each of the last two being a mixture of two dialects; (Akh, S, K;) inf. n. قُنُوطٌ, (S, Msb, K,) which is of the first and second, (S, K, TA,) and of the fourth and sixth also; (K; [but this is doubtful;]) and قَنَطٌ, which is of the third; (S, K;) and قَنَاطَةٌ, which is also of the third, (S, K,) or [more probably, agreeably with analogy,] of the fourth; (TK;) He despaired (S, Msb, K) of (مِنْ) the mercy of God, (Msb,) or, as in the T, of good: or, as some say, he despaired most vehemently of a thing. (TA.) It is said in the Kur, [xv. 56,] accord. to different readings, وَمَنْ يَقْنِطُ مِنْ رَحْمَةِ رَبِّهِ اـِلَّا الضَّالُّونَ and يَقْنُطُ (Bd, TA) and يَقْنَطُ (Bd) [ And who despaireth of the mercy of his Lord except those who are in error? ] -A2- قَنْطٌ is also syn. with مَنْعٌ. (K.) You say, قَنَطَ مَاآءَهُ عَنَّا He withheld, kept, or debarred, his water from us. (Sgh on the authority of Ibn-'Abbád.)

2 قنّطهُ ذ , (Msb, K,) inf. n. تَقْنِيطٌ, (K,) He made him to despair; (Msb, K;) as also ↓ اقنطهُ. (Msb.) You say, شَرُّ النَّاسِ الَّذِينَ يُقَنِّطُونَ النَّاسَ مِنْ رَحْمَةِ اللّٰهِ The worst of men are those who make men to despair of the mercy of God. (TA.)

4 أَقْنَطَ see 2.

قَنِطٌ ذ : see what follows.

قَنُوطٌ ذ : see what follows.

قَانِطٌ ذ (S, Msb) and ↓ قَنِطٌ (S, TA) and ↓ قَنُوطٌ, (Msb, TA,) but the last has an intensive signification, (Bd, xli. 49,) Despairing: (S, Msb, TA:) pl. of the first with ون; (Kur xv. 55, accord. to the prevailing reading;) and so of the second. (S, TA.)

Q. 1 قَنْطَرَ الشّىْءِ ذ i. q. عَقَدَهُ وَأَحْكَمَهُ [ He tied, or knit, the thing; or, agreeably with modern usage, he arched, or vaulted, it; and made it firm, or strong ]. (Zj.) Hence what is called a قَنْطَرَة is thus called because of its being firmly, or strongly, knit together, or arched, or vaulted, لِاـِحْكَامِ عَقْدِهَا. (MF.) [It seems to signify He compacted the thing. ― -b2- Also, He collected the thing together into one aggregate; he aggregated it. See the pass. part. n., below.] -A2- قَنْطَرَ He (a man, TA) possessed property by the قِنْطَار: (K:) or became possessed of a قنطار of property: (TA:) or possessed large property, as though it were weighed by the قنطار. (ISd, TA.)

2 تَقَنْطَرَ بِهِ فَرَسُهُ ذ , for تَقَطَّرَ به: see قَطَّرَهُ.

قَنْطَرَةٌ ذ [accord. to the Msb, of the measure فَنْعَلَةٌ, belonging to art. قطر, the ن being augmentative; and the same is perhaps meant to be indicated by the place in which it is mentioned in the S and some other lexicons; but accord. to the K, the ن is a radical letter; A bridge; ] what is built over water, for crossing or passing over (Mgh, Msb) upon it; (Msb;) an أَزَج [or oblong arched or vaulted structure ], built with backed bricks or with stones, over water, upon which to cross or pass over: (Az, TA:) or i. q. جِسْرٌ: (S, K:) or this latter is a more common term; (Mgh, * Msb;) for it signifies that which is built and that which is not built: (Msb:) a lofty structure: (K:) [pl. قَنَاطِرُ.] See 1.

قِنْطَارٌ ذ [accord. to the Msb, of the measure فِنْعَالٌ, belonging to art. قطر, the ن being augmentative; and the same is perhaps meant to be indicated by the place in which it is mentioned in the S and some other lexicons; but accord. to the K, the ن is a radical letter;] A certain مِعْيَار [or standard of weight or measure ]: (S, TA:) or, accord. to some, a quantity of no determinate weight: (Msb:) or a large unknown quantity or aggregate, of property: (TA:) or much property heaped up: (Msb:) or four thousand deenárs: (Th, Msb:) this is what most of the Arabs hold to be the truth: (Th:) or four thousand dirhems: (Th:) or one thousand two hundred ookeeyehs: (A 'Obeyd, S, K:) so accord. to Mo'ádh Ibn-Jebel: (S:) or [which is the same] a hundred ritls: (Msb:) [this is its weight in the present day; i. e., a hundredweight, or a hundred pounds: ] or a hundred ritls of gold or of silver: (Es-Suddee, K:) or a hundred and twenty ritls: (S, L:) or a thousand ookeeyehs of gold: or of silver: (Th:) or twelve thousand ookeeyehs, accord. to Aboo-Hureyreh, on the authority of the Prophet: (TA:) or a hundred ookeeyehs of gold: or of silver: (Th:) or a hundred mithkáls; (I 'Ab, Msb, TA;) the mith- kál being twenty keeráts: (I 'Ab, TA:) or forty ookeeyehs of gold: (K:) or one thousand two hundred deenárs: (K:) or one thousand one hundred deenárs: (L:) or seventy thousand deenárs: (K:) or, in the language of Barbar, a thousand mithkáls of gold or of silver: (TA:) or eighty thousand dirhems: (I 'Ab, K:) or a hundred dirhems: (Msb:) or a hundred menns: (Msb:) or a quantity of gold, (S, K,) or of silver, (K,) sufficient to fill a bull's hide: (S, K:) so in the Syriac language, accord. to Es-Suddee: (TA:) and there are other definitions of the word: (S:) pl. قَنَاطِيرُ. (S.)

مُقَنْطَرٌ ذ Collected together into one aggregate; aggregated; made up; or completed; syn. مُكَمَّلٌ. (K.) You say قَنَاطِيرُ مُقَنْطَرَةٌ, (S,) meaning, Much riches collected together: (Jel. in iii. 12:) the latter word is a corroborative. (Bd. ibid.)

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قُنْفُدٌ ذ i. q. قُنْفُذٌ. (Ktr, Kr, K.)

قُنْفُذٌ ذ and قُنْفَذٌ [The male hedge-hog; ] (S, L, Msb, K;) i. q. شَيْهَمٌ: (M, L, K:) or the male and female: (Msb:) or the fem. is with ة, (S, L, Msb, K,) sometimes; and the male is called شَيْهَمٌ and دُلْدُلٌ: (Msb:) pl. قَنَافِذُ. (S.) Some hold that the ن is an augmentative letter: others, that it is a radical. (TA.)

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1 قَهِبَ ذ , aor. قَهَبَ , (K, TA,) inf. n. قَهَبٌ, (TA,) He, or it, was, or became, of the colour termed قُهْبَةٌ [q. v.]. (K, TA.)

4 اقهب عَنِ الطَّعَامِ ذ He abstained from food, or the food, and did not desire it. (O, K.)

قَهْبٌ ذ [and ↓ أَقْهَبُ] White overspread with duskiness: (A 'Obeyd, S, O, K:) fem. [of the former] قَهْبَةٌ and [of the latter] ↓ قَهْبَاآءُ, (S,) [and] ↓ قَهِبَةٌ is a fem. epithet having the same meaning: (K, TA:) or white; (TA;) and so ↓ قُهَابٌ and ↓ قُهَابِىٌّ; (Lth, O, K, TA;) or all signify thus in respect of skin, or hide: (Az, TA:) or قَهْبٌ signifies thus as an epithet applied to the young of goats and oxen, (Lth, O, TA,) and the like thereof, and in respect of skin, or hide: (Lth, O:) and ↓ أَقْهَبُ signifies dust-coloured with an inclining to blackness: (As, S, O:) or red with an intermixture of dust-colour: (IAar, S, O:) or a dusky white: (S, O:) or having a colour inclining to duskiness, with whiteness or blackness (مع البياض للسواد [which I suppose to be a mistake for مع البياض او السواد]). (TA.) -A2- Also [or app. جَبَلٌ قَهْبٌ] A great mountain; (S, K;) accord. to AA: (S:) or, accord. to him, a long mountain: (O:) pl. قِهَابٌ: or this [or جِبَالٌ قِهَابٌ?] signifies mountains of a black colour intermixed with redness. (TA.) ― -b2- And Advanced in age; (O, TA;) applied to an elder; like قَحْبٌ and قَحْرٌ: (TA:) and old in respect of origin; used in this sense by Ru-beh: (O, TA:) or [جَمَلٌ قَهْبٌ signifies] a camel advanced in age (K, TA) beyond such as is termed بَازِلٌ: (TA:) or a great camel. (AA, TA.)

قُهْبَةٌ ذ The colour of that which is termed قَهْبٌ; i. e. whiteness overspread with duskiness: (K:) or the colour of that which is termed أَقْهَبُ; i. e. a dusky whiteness: or, accord. to As, dust-colour inclining to blackness: or, accord. to IAar, redness with an intermixture of dust-colour: (S, O:) or, accord. to IAar, blackness inclining to خُضْرَة [by which word is here app. meant a dark, or an ashy, dust-colour ]. (TA voce حُسْبَةٌ.)

قَهِبَةٌ ذ : see قَهْبٌ, first sentence.

قَهْبِىٌّ ذ The يَعْقُوب; (Lth, O, K;) i. e. the male partridge. (Lth, O.)

قُهَابٌ ذ : see قَهْبٌ, first sentence.

قُهَيْبٌ ذ : see قُهَيْبَةٌ.

قَهَوْبَةٌ ذ , (K accord. to the TA,) or قَهُوبَةٌ, (O, and so in the CK and in my MS. copy of the K,) like رَكُوبَةٌ, (O,) and قَهَوْبَاةٌ, (O, K, TA, [in the O, in which it is restricted to the last of the following meanings, carelessly written قَهُوْبَاء, but there said to be with fet-h to the ه, and with ه, by which is meant ة,]) accord. to MF with damm to the ف, but this is a mistake, (TA,) An arrow-head (O, K *) having three شُعَب [i. e. barbs ]: (O, K:) and in some instances having two pieces, or two small pieces of iron, (حَدِيدَتَانِ, O, or حديّدتان, TA,) which sometimes contract, and sometimes diverge, or open: (O, TA:) or a small arrow, that hits the butt: (K:) or قَهُوبَاتٌ, which is the pl., signifies short arrows, that hit the butt: this is said by Az to be the right explanation: and IDrd has mentioned قَهَوْبَاةٌ as signifying broad heads of arrows or the like: (O:) accord. to Sb, (TA,) there is no other instance [than قَهْوْبَاةٌ] of a word of which the [primitive] measure is فَعَوْلَى. (K, TA. [شَجَوْجًى and similar words are of the measure فَعَوْعَلٌ.])

قُهَيْبَةٌ ذ , (thus accord. to SM's copy of the K,) in the form of a dim.; accord. to another copy of the K, قُهْبِيَّةٌ; [accord. to another copy, قُهَبِيَّةٌ; accord. to the CK, قَهِيبَةٌ;] and accord. to the L, ↓ قُهَيْبٌ [app. a coll. gen. n. of which قُهَيْبَةٌ is the n. un.]; (TA;) A certain bird, (K, TA,) found in Tihámeh, in which are whiteness and خَضْرَة [here app. meaning, as in an instance mentioned above, a dark, or an ashy, dust-colour ]; a species of partridge. (TA.)

قُهَابِىٌّ ذ : see قَهْبٌ, first sentence.

أَقْهَبُ ذ , and its fem. قَهْبَاآءُ: see قَهْبٌ, first sentence, in three places. ― -b2- الأَقْهَبَانِ means The elephant and the buffalo: (S, A, O, K:) each of them is termed أَقْهَبُ because of his colour, (O, TA,) or because of his greatness. (A, TA.)

قَهْدٌ ذ Clear in colour. (L, K.) ― -b2- White; as also قَهْبٌ: (A 'Obeyd, L:) by some specially applied to the young of antelopes and cows: (L:) or of a dingy, or dusky, white; as also قَهْبٌ. (S, L.)

1 قَهَرَهُ ذ . (aor. قَهَرَ , A, K,) inf. n. قَهْرٌ, He overcame, conquered, subdued, subjected, subjugated, overbore, overpowered, mastered, or prevailed or predominated over, him, or it; he was, or became, superior in power or force, to him, or it. (S, A, Msb, K, TA.) ― -b2- [ He abased him. (See 4.) ― -b3- He oppressed him. So in the Kur., xciii. 9, فَأَمَّا اليَتِيمَ فَلَا تَقْهَرُ [ Therefore, happen what may, the orphan thou shalt not oppress; i. e., as explained in the Expos. of the Jel., by taking his property, or otherwise.] ― -b4- He forced, compelled, or constrained, him. So in the following ex.] قَهَرَهُ عَلَى الأَمْرِ [ He forced, compelled, or constrained, him to do the thing ]. (S, K, art. قسر.) ― -b5- [ He coerced him. ] ― -b6- He took him [ by force; ] against his will, or approval; and so أَخَذَهُ قَهْرًا. (A, TA.) -A2- قُهِرَ اللَّحْمُ (tropical:) The flesh-meat became, (S,) or began to be, (A, TA,) affected, or acted upon, (lit. taken,) by the fire, so that its juice flowed. (S, A, TA.)

4 اقهر ذ He became in a state in which to be overcome, conquered, subdued, subjected, subjugated, overborne, overpowered, mastered, or prevailed over: (Msb:) his case became that of one overcome, &c. (S, TA.) ― -b2- His companions became overcome, conquered, subdued, &c., (K, TA,) and abased. (TA.) -A2- اقهرهُ He found him to be overcome, conquered, subdued, overpowered, mastered, or prevailed over. (S, Msb, K.)

7 انقهر ذ [quasi-pass. of قَهَرَهُ; He was, or became, overcome, &c.]. (TA in art. ضغط.)

قُهْرًا وَبُهْرًا ذ , with damm to each, [a form of imprecation, meaning, May he, or they, be overcome and subdued ]. (TA.)

فُلَانٌ قُهْرَةٌ للِنَّاسِ ذ Such a one is a person to be overcome, conquered, subdued, &c., by everyone. (A.) ― -b2- أَخَذْتُ قُلَانًا قُهْرَةً I took such a one by constraint, or compulsion. (S.)

قُهَرَةٌ ذ A woman abounding in evil, injustice, or corruptness; very evil or bad, unjust, or corrupt: (K, TA:) pl. قُهَرَاتٌ. (TA.)

قَهَّارٌ ذ : see قَاهِرٌ.

قَاهرٌ ذ One who overcomes, conquers, subdues, &c.: and ↓ قَهَّارٌ signifies the same in an intensive sense. (Msb.) ― -b2- القَاهِرُ (TA) and ↓ القَهَّارُ (K, TA) epithets applied to God, (K, TA,) meaning, The Subduer of his creatures by his sovereign authority and power, and the Disposer of them as He pleaseth, with and against their will: (TA:) or the former, the Overcomer, or Subduer, of all created beings. (IAth, TA.) ― -b3- [القَاهِرُ The planet Mars. ] ― -b4- جِبَالٌ قَوَاهِرُ (tropical:) Lofty mountains. (A.)

أَقْهَرُ ذ [ More, and most, subduing, &c.: and, abasing ]. (K voce أَخْنَعُ, q. v.)

Q. 1 قَهْقَرَ ذ , (K, TA,) inf. n. قَهْقَرَةٌ, (TA,) He (a man) returned by the way by which he had come: (TA:) or i. q. رَجَعَ القَهْقَرى, (K,) i. e., [ he returned backwards; or] he retired, going backwards, without turning his face towards the direction in which he went; (TA;) as also ↓ تَقَهْقَرَ. (K, TA.) Some hold, [contr. to the general opinion,] that this verb belongs to art. قهر. (TA.)

Q. 2 تَقَهْقَرَ see 1.

قَهْقَرَى ذ A returning backwards; (S, K;) a retiring, going backwards, without turning the face towards the direction in which one goes: (TA:) the dual is قَهْقَرَانِ; (IAmb, K;) like as the dual of خَوْزَلَى is خَوْزَلَانِ; (TA;) without ى, (K,) because this letter is deemed difficult to pronounce with the ا and the ى of the dual. (TA.) When you say رَجَعْتُ القَهْقَرَى [ I returned backwards; &c.], it is as though you said I returned with the returning which is known by this name; for القهقرى is a mode of returning. (S.) ― -b2- مَشَى القَهْقَرَى He reverted from the state in which he was, or from the course which he was following; revolted; apostatized. (Az, from a trad.)

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1 قَابَ الأَرْضَ ذ , aor. يَقُوبُهَا, (S, O,) inf. n. قَوْبٌ; (K;) and ↓ قوّبها, (S, O,) inf. n. تَقْوِيبٌ; (S, O, K;) He dug, or made a hollow in, the ground: (K:) or he dug a round hollow in the ground; (S, O, TA;) thus both phrases are expl. by ISd. (TA.) ― -b2- And قاب بَيْضَهُ, (S, O,) inf. n. as above, (K,) It (a bird) broke asunder its eggs. (S, O, K.) -A2- قاب is also intrans., signifying جِلْدُهُ ↓ تقوّب [app. His skin became pitted, or marked with small hollows: see an explanation of 2, of which تقوّب is quasi-pass.]. (O.) ― -b2- قابت البَيْضَةُ: see 7. -A3- Also (قاب) He was, or became, near; drew near; or approached: and He fled: (O, K, TA:) inf. n. قَوْبٌ: (TA:) thus it has two contr. significations. (K, TA.)

2 قَوَّبَ see above, first sentence. ― -b2- One says also, قَوَّبْتُ الأَرْضَ meaning I made impressions, marks, or traces, upon the ground, (O, K, TA,) by treading; and made indications [ thereby, or thereof, ] at its drinking-places. (TA.) And قَوَّبوا الأَرْضَ, (A, TA,) or فِى الأَرْضِ, (O,) They (i. e. persons alighting, A, TA) made impressions, marks, or traces, upon the ground, (A, O, TA,) by their treading and their alighting. (O.) ― -b3- And قوّب الجَرَبُ جِلْدَ البَعِيرِ The mange, or scab, made pits, or small hollows, bare of fur, in the skin of the camel. (Lth, TA.) See also 5. ― -b4- قُوِّبَ مِنَ الغُبَارِ means اِغْبَرَّ [i. e., app., He, or it, became sullied with dust ]. (Th, TA.) ― -b5- And قوّبهُ, inf. n. تَقْوِيبٌ, He pulled it out or up, by the root; eradicated, or uprooted, it. (K, * TA.)