قصل

Root entry · 20 derived lemmas

The root قصل primarily relates to cutting, especially a clean or decisive cut. It extends to concepts of being sharp, effective in cutting, and also to specific agricultural and social terms derived from this core meaning.

Derived headwords

قَصَلَverb

1.
to cutboth
To cut something, especially cleanly or decisively.

قَصْلnoun

1.
cuttingboth
The act of cutting, or a cut itself.
2.
cut from the middleclassical
A cut made from the middle of something or lower than that.

اقتصلverb

1.
to cut offboth
To cut something off, often implying a complete severance.

قَاصِلadjective

1.
cuttingboth
Describing a sword or blade that cuts effectively.

مِقْصَلadjective

1.
cuttingboth
Describing a sword or blade that cuts effectively.

قِصَالadjective

1.
cuttingboth
Describing a sword or blade that cuts effectively.

قَصِيلnoun

1.
cut green fodderboth
Green fodder that is cut for feeding animals, named for its quick harvesting.

قُصِلَانnoun

1.
cut green fodder (pl.)both
Plural of قصيل, referring to cut green fodder.

قَصْلَةnoun

1.
portion of cut fodderboth
A portion or handful of cut green fodder.

قَصَلَ الدابةverb

1.
to feed fodderboth
To feed an animal with cut green fodder (قصيل).

قَصَلَ عليهاverb

1.
to feed fodderboth
To feed an animal with cut green fodder (قصيل).

قَصَالَةnoun

1.
grain residueboth
The part of grain that is separated when winnowed or cleaned, often discarded or re-processed.
2.
discarded foodclassical
What is removed from food and thrown away, or what is left after a second processing.

قَصَلَهاverb

1.
to threshclassical
To thresh or tread grain, referring to the قصالة.

قَصْلnoun

1.
chaffboth
The husks or chaff of grain, similar to weeds or impurities.
2.
impuritiesboth
Any unwanted material or impurities found in food or grain.

قَصْلَةnoun

1.
group of camelsboth
A group of camels, ranging from ten to forty.

قَصَلadjective

1.
weakboth
Weak, feeble, or lacking strength.
2.
foolishboth
Foolish, stupid, or lacking sense.

قَصْلَةadjective

1.
weak (fem.)both
Feminine form of قصل, describing a female as weak or foolish.

قَصَلَ عنقهverb

1.
to strike the neckclassical
To strike someone on the neck.

القَصْلname

1.
man's nameboth
A proper name for a man.

القَصَلname

1.
man's name (with pronunciation)classical
A proper name for a man, pronounced with damma on the qaf and fatha on the sad.

Parallel reading

القصل: القطع، وقيل: القصل قطع الشيء من وسطه أو أسفل من ذلك قطعا وحيا.

Al-qasl: cutting, and it is said: Al-qasl is cutting something from its middle or lower than that with a living cut.

قصل الشيء يقصله قصلا واقتصله: قطعة.

Qasala the thing, yaqsiluhu qaslan, and iqtasaluhu: he cut it.

وسيف قاصل ومقصل وقصال: قطاع؛

And a sword is qasil, miqsal, and qisal: cutting;

وأنشد: مع اقتصال القصر العرادم

And he recited: with the cutting of the tall palaces

ومننه سمي القصيل.

And from it, the fodder (al-qasīl) was named.

ولسان مقصل: ماض.

And a sharp tongue: swift/cutting.

وجمل مقصل: يحطم كل شيء بأنيابه.

And a camel that crushes: it crushes everything with its teeth.

والقصيل: ما اقتصل من الزرع أخضر، والجمع قصلان، والقصلة: الطائفة المقتصلة منه،

And al-qasīl: what is cut from the crops green, and the plural is qaslān, and al-qaslah: the portion cut from it,

وقصل الدابة يقصلها قصلا وقصل عليها: علفها القصيل.

And he fed the animal, yaqsiluhā qaslan, and qasala 'alayhā: he fed it with qasīl.

والقصالة من البر: ما عزل منه إذا نقي، وقصلها: داسها.

And al-qaṣālah from wheat: what is separated from it when cleaned, and he threshed it: he trod it.

وقال اللحياني: قصالة الطعام ما يخرج منه فيرمى به ثم يداس الثانية، وذلك إذا كان أجل من التراب والدقاق قليلا.

And Al-Lihyani said: the qaṣālah of food is what comes out of it and is thrown away, then trodden a second time, and that is if it is slightly coarser than dust and fine particles.

والقصل: ما يخرج من الطعام فيرمى به، والقصل لغة؛ عن اللحياني.

And al-qasl: what comes out of food and is thrown away, and al-qasl is a dialectal term; from Al-Lihyani.

غيره: والقصل في الطعام مثل الزؤان؛

Others said: And al-qasl in food is like darnel;

وقال: يحملن حمراء رسوبا بالنقل، ... قد غربلت وكربلت من القصل

And he said: They carry red ones settling with the transport, ... they have been sifted and winnowed from the impurities

وقال الفراء: في الطعام قصل وزؤان وغفى، منقوص، وكل هذا مما يخرج منه فيرمى به.

And Al-Farra' said: In food there is qasl, darnel, and ghafā, defective, and all of this is what comes out of it and is thrown away.

والقصلة والقصلة: الجماعة من الإبل نحو الصرمة، وقيل هي من العشرة إلى الأربعين، فإذا بلغت الستين فهي الكدحة «1».

And al-qaṣlah and al-qaṣlah: a group of camels like a ṣarmah, and it is said to be from ten to forty, and when it reaches sixty it is al-kadḥah.

والقصل، بالكسر: الفسل الضعيف الأحمق، وقيل: هو الذي لا يتمالك حمقا، والأنثى قصلة؛

And al-qasl, with kasra: the weak, foolish simpleton, and it is said: he is one who cannot control his foolishness, and the female is qaslah;

وإنما سمي القصيل الذي تعلف به الدواب قصيلا لسرعة اقتصاله من رخاصته.

And the fodder with which animals are fed is only called qasīl because of the speed of its cutting and its cheapness.

قال أبو الطيب: القصل في الناس، والقصل في الطعام.

Abu Al-Tayyib said: Al-qasl among people, and al-qasl in food.

وقصل عنقه: ضربها؛ عن اللحياني.

And he struck his neck: he hit it; from Al-Lihyani.

وفي حديث الشعبي: أغمي على رجل من جهينة فلما أفاق قال ما فعل القصل ؛ هو بضم القاف وفتح الصاد اسم رجل.

And in the hadith of Al-Sha'bi: A man from Juhaynah fainted, and when he recovered he said, 'What happened to Al-Qasl?'; it is with damma on the qaf and fatha on the sad, a man's name.