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وقص

Root entry · 30 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the concept of breaking, crushing, or shortening, particularly related to the neck. It extends to descriptions of physical conditions like a short neck, the act of breaking something, and even specific gaits of animals. It also has a specialized meaning in Islamic jurisprudence regarding livestock taxation.

Derived headwords

الوَقْصnoun
  1. 1.
    shortness of neckclassical

    A condition characterized by a short neck, as if it were drawn into the chest.

  2. 2.
    breaking, crushingclassical

    The act of breaking or crushing something, especially a neck or bones.

  3. 3.
    small twigsclassical

    Small, dry twigs or sticks that are placed on a fire.

  4. 4.
    taxable livestockclassical

    The portion of livestock between the minimum required for taxation and the next threshold, specifically in the context of Zakat (charity tax).

وقصَ يَقِصُ وَقْصًاverb
  1. 1.
    to break the neckclassical

    To break or crush the neck, causing it to be short or crushed.

  2. 2.
    to break, crushclassical

    To break or crush something, like bones or objects.

  3. 3.
    to break twigsclassical

    To break small twigs, often for use as fuel.

أَوْقَصadjective
  1. 1.
    short-neckedclassical

    Describing someone or something with a short neck.

وَقْصَاءadjective
  1. 1.
    short-neckedclassical

    A feminine adjective describing a woman or neck that is short.

أَوْقَصَهُ اللهverb
  1. 1.
    God made him short-neckedclassical

    A passive construction indicating that God caused someone to have a short neck.

عُنُقٌ أَوْقَصadjective
  1. 1.
    short neckclassical

    A neck that is short in length.

عُنُقٌ وَقْصَاءadjective
  1. 1.
    short neckclassical

    A neck that is short in length (feminine form).

وَقَصَ عُنُقَهُverb
  1. 1.
    to break his neckclassical

    To break or crush someone's neck.

مَوْقُوصadjective
  1. 1.
    broken-neckedclassical

    Describing someone or something whose neck is broken or crushed, often leading to immobility.

وَقَصَ البَعِيرverb
  1. 1.
    the camel became immobileclassical

    When a camel becomes afflicted with a disease in its back, rendering it immobile.

وَقَصَ الرَّجُلverb
  1. 1.
    the man became immobileclassical

    When a man becomes incapacitated or immobile, similar to a camel with a broken back.

وَقَصَ الدَّيْنُ عُنُقَهُverb
  1. 1.
    debt crushed his neckclassical

    A metaphorical use where debt weighs heavily on a person, causing distress or incapacitation.

وَقَصَ رَأْسَهُverb
  1. 1.
    to crush his headclassical

    To crush someone's head with a strong grip or impact, potentially breaking the neck.

الْوَاقِصَةnoun
  1. 1.
    a case of broken neckclassical

    A legal term referring to a case where someone's neck is broken, resulting in death, for which blood money (diya) is due.

  2. 2.
    broken-necked (animal)classical

    An animal, like a camel or horse, that has suffered a broken neck.

مُوَاقِصَةnoun
  1. 1.
    bending overclassical

    The act of bending over or crouching down to hold something securely.

وَقَصَ الشَّيْءverb
  1. 1.
    to break the thingclassical

    To break or crush an object.

تُقَصُّ الْمَقَاصِرverb
  1. 1.
    breaks the stumpsclassical

    Referring to a she-camel breaking the stumps or roots of trees with its hooves.

الْمَقَاصِرnoun
  1. 1.
    stumps of treesclassical

    The lower parts or stumps of trees.

تَقُصُّ الْإِكَامverb
  1. 1.
    breaks the hillsclassical

    Referring to a horse or other animal breaking the tops of small hills or mounds with its hooves.

الْإِكَامnoun
  1. 1.
    small hillsclassical

    Small hills or mounds of earth.

وَقَصَ عَلَى نَارِكverb
  1. 1.
    break twigs on your fireclassical

    To break small twigs and place them on a fire to increase the flame.

الْوَقْشnoun
  1. 1.
    small firewoodclassical

    Small pieces of firewood or twigs used to kindle or sustain a fire.

تَتَوَقَّصُ بِهِverb
  1. 1.
    it makes him move restlesslyclassical

    When a mount (like a horse) moves with a restless, bounding gait, not quite a gallop but more than a trot.

تَوَقَّصَverb
  1. 1.
    to move with a bounding gaitclassical

    To move with a gait that is faster than a trot but slower than a gallop, characterized by short, quick leaps.

وَقَصَ الذُّبَابverb
  1. 1.
    killed the fliesclassical

    To kill flies by swatting them with a tail or other means.

الْأَوْقَاصnoun
  1. 1.
    livestock between thresholdsclassical

    The portion of livestock (camels, cattle) that falls between the minimum number required for Zakat and the next taxable increment.

تَوَاقَصَ عَلَيْهَاverb
  1. 1.
    bent over itclassical

    To bend or crouch down over something to hold it securely.

أَوْقَصadjective
  1. 1.
    short-necked (by nature)classical

    Naturally short-necked.

وَاقِصَةname
  1. 1.
    Waqisah (place name)classical

    A place name mentioned in the text.

وَقِيصname
  1. 1.
    Waqis (name)classical

    A personal name.

Parallel reading

الوقص، بالتحريك: قصر العنق كأنما رد في جوف الصدر
Al-waqs, with harakah: shortness of the neck as if it were drawn into the chest.
وقص عنقه يقصها وقصا: كسرها ودقها
He broke his neck, breaking it and crushing it.
وهو أوقص، وامرأة وقصاء
And he is short-necked, and a woman is short-necked.
وقد يوصف بذلك العنق فيقال: عنق أوقص وعنق وقصاء، حكاها اللحياني
And the neck may be described thus, so it is said: a short neck and a short neck, narrated by Al-Lihyani.
وقص البعير، فهو موقوص إذا أصبح داؤه في ظهره لا حراك به
The camel became afflicted, so it is muwqous (broken-backed) if its ailment is in its back, rendering it immobile.
وقص الدين عنقه: كذلك على المثل
Debt crushed his neck: similarly, by analogy.
وكل ما كسر، فقد وقص
And everything that is broken, has been waqs.
وقصت رأسه إذا غمزته غمزا شديدا، وربما اندقت منه العنق
And he crushed his head if you squeezed it hard, and perhaps the neck was crushed from it.
أنه قضى في الواقصة والقامصة والقارصة بالدية أثلاثا
That he ruled in the case of the waqisah, the qamisah, and the qarisah with blood money in thirds.
فقضى للتي وقصت أي اندق عنقها بثلثي الدية على صاحبتيها
So he ruled that the one whose neck was broken, meaning crushed, should receive two-thirds of the blood money from her two companions.
أن رجلا كان واقفا مع النبي، صلى الله عليه وسلم، وهو محرم فوقصت به ناقته في أخاقيق جردان فمات
A man was standing with the Prophet, peace be upon him, while he was in the state of Ihram, and his she-camel caused him to fall, breaking his neck in the gullies of the desert, and he died.
وقصت الشيء إذا كسرته
And he broke the thing if he broke it.
فبعثتها تقص المقاصر، بعدما كربت حياة النار للمتنور
So I sent her to break the stumps, after the fire had nearly consumed the life of the fire for the one tending it.
وقصت الدابة الأكمة: كسرتها
The animal broke the hill: it broke it.
والوقص: دقاق العيدان تلقى على النار
And al-waqs: small twigs thrown onto the fire.
وقص على ناره: كسر عليها العيدان
He broke twigs on his fire: he broke sticks upon it.
والوقش والوقص صغار الحطب الذي تشيع به النار
And al-waqsh and al-waqs are small firewood with which the fire spreads.
إذا نزا الفرس في عدوه نزوا ووثب وهو يقارب الخطو فذلك التوقص
If the horse leaps in its run and bounds while shortening its stride, that is al-tawaqqus.
والدواب إذا سارت في رؤوس الإكام وقصتها أي كسرت رؤوسها بقوائمها
And the animals, when they walk on the tops of hills, break them, meaning they break their tops with their hooves.
والفرس تقص الإكام أي تدقها
And the horse breaks the hills, meaning it crushes them.
والوقص: إسكان الثاني من متفاعلن فيبقى متفاعلن
And al-waqs: making the second syllable of mutafāʿilun quiescent, leaving it as mutafāʿilun.
والوقص: ما بين الفريضتين من الإبل والغنم، واحد الأوقاص في الصدقة، والجمع أوقاص
And al-waqs: what is between the two thresholds of camels and sheep, one of the awqas in Zakat, and the plural is awqas.
قال أبو عبيد: قال أبو عمرو الشيباني الوقص، بالتحريك، هو ما وجبت فيه الغنم من فرائض الصدقة في الإبل ما بين الخمس إلى العشرين
Abu Ubayd said: Abu Amr Al-Shaybani said, al-waqs, with harakah, is what the sheep are due for from the Zakat obligations in camels between five and twenty.
فخالفت بين طرفيها ثم تواقصت عليها كي لا تسقط
So I crossed the ends of it and then bent over it so it would not fall.
والأوقص: الذي قصرت عنقه خلقة
And al-awqas: he whose neck is short by creation.