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قفس

Root entry · 9 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to forceful taking, grabbing, or pulling, often with anger or violence. It also extends to meanings of death, a specific ethnic group, and negative characterizations of people and animals.

Derived headwords

قَفَسَverb
  1. 1.
    to seize forcefullyboth

    To take something with a forceful, snatching action, often accompanied by anger.

  2. 2.
    to pull by the hairclassical

    Specifically, to pull someone downwards by their hair.

قَفْسًاnoun
  1. 1.
    forceful seizingboth

    The act of seizing or taking something forcefully and snatchingly.

  2. 2.
    pulling by the hairclassical

    The act of pulling someone downwards by their hair.

يَتَقَافَسَانِverb
  1. 1.
    to grapple by the hairclassical

    The reciprocal action of two people pulling each other by their hair.

القَفْسَاءnoun
  1. 1.
    stomachclassical

    The stomach or belly.

  2. 2.
    vile womanclassical

    A base, wicked, or ignoble woman. This term is not used to describe a freeborn woman of good standing.

قَفْسَاءadjective
  1. 1.
    ignoble, baseclassical

    Describing a person (male or female) or a slave who is ignoble, base, or of low character.

قَفَّاسadjective
  1. 1.
    ignoble, baseclassical

    Describing a person (male or female) or a slave who is ignoble, base, or of low character.

أَقْفَسadjective
  1. 1.
    lowborn, son of a slaveclassical

    A man who is of low birth, specifically the son of a slave woman.

قَفُوسًاnoun
  1. 1.
    deathclassical

    Death; the state of dying.

قَفَسnoun
  1. 1.
    ethnic groupclassical

    A specific ethnic group residing in the mountains of Kirman, similar to the Kurds.

Parallel reading

قَفَسَ الشيءَ يقفِسُه قَفْسًا: أخذه أخذ انتزاع وغضب.
Qafasa a thing, yaqfisuhu qafsan: he took it with a taking of snatching and anger.
قَفَسَ فلانٌ فلانًا يقفِسُه قَفْسًا إذا جذبه بشعره سُفْلًا.
So-and-so pulled so-and-so downwards by his hair.
تركتهما يتقافسان بشعورهما.
I left them grappling with each other by their hair.
والقَفْسَاء: المعدة؛ عن ابن الأعرابي؛
And al-qafsa': the stomach; according to Ibn al-A'rabi;
ألقيت في قَفْسَائِهِ ما شَغَلَهُ
I threw into his stomach what occupied him.
والقَفْسَاء: الأمة اللئيمة الرديئة، ولا تنعت الحرة بها.
And al-qafsa': the base, wicked slave woman; a freeborn woman is not described by it.
امرأة قَفْسَاء وقَفَّاس وعبدٌ أَقْفَس إذا كانا لئيمين.
A woman is qafsa' and qaffas, and a slave is aqfas, if they are base.
والأَقْفَس من الرجال: المُقْرِف ابن الأمة.
And al-aqfas among men: the one of ignoble lineage, the son of a slave woman.
قَفَسَ الرجلُ قُفُوسًا: مات، وكذلك فَقَسَ، وهما لغتان، وكذلك طَفَسَ وفَطَسَ إذا مات.
A man qafasa qufus-an: he died; likewise faqasa; they are two variants, and likewise tafasa and fatasa if he died.
والقَفْس: جيل يكون بكرمان في جبالها كالأكراد؛
And al-qafas: an ethnic group found in Kirman in its mountains, like the Kurds;
وكم قطعنا من عدو شرس، ... زط وأكراد وقَفْس قَفْس
And how many fierce enemies we have cut down, ... Zutt, Kurds, and Qafas Qafas.
وهو بالصاد أيضًا، وهي مضارعة.
And it is also with Sad (qafas), and it is a parallel form.