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قصل

Root entry · 11 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to the concept of cutting or severing. It extends to terms for sharp weapons, fodder for animals, and also to undesirable elements in grain or food, implying a separation or removal of the good from the bad. It can also refer to a group or collection.

Derived headwords

قَصَلَverb
  1. 1.
    to cutboth

    To sever or cut something off.

قَصْلnoun
  1. 1.
    cuttingboth

    The act of cutting or severing.

مِقْصَلadjective
  1. 1.
    cuttingclassical

    Describing a sword that is very sharp and cuts effectively.

قِصَالadjective
  1. 1.
    cuttingclassical

    Describing a sword that is very sharp and cuts effectively.

قَصِيلnoun
  1. 1.
    fodderboth

    fodder

قَصَلَverb
  1. 1.
    to feed fodderboth

    To feed an animal with qasil (fodder).

قَصْلnoun
  1. 1.
    weaklingclassical

    A weak, feeble, or insignificant person.

قَسْلnoun
  1. 1.
    weaklingclassical

    A weak, feeble, or insignificant person.

قَصَالَةnoun
  1. 1.
    separated grainclassical

    That which is separated from wheat after it has been threshed and then re-threshed.

قَصْلnoun
  1. 1.
    chaffclassical

    Undesirable elements mixed with food, similar to darnel or chaff.

قَصْلَةnoun
  1. 1.
    group of camelsclassical

    A group or herd of camels, similar in size to a sarmā (a group of ten camels).

Parallel reading

القصل: القطع
Al-qasl: cutting.
وسيف مقصل وقصال أي قطاع
And a sword miqsal and qisal, meaning very cutting.
ومننه سمي القصيل
And from this, al-qasil is named.
وقصلت الدابة: علفتها القصيل
And the animal was fed qasil: meaning it was fed fodder.
القصل بالكسر: الضعيف الفسل
Al-qasl (with kasra): the weak, feeble one.
ليس بقصل حلس حلسم عند البيوت راشن مقم
He is not a weakling, a mat, a stout one, near the houses, resting, settled.
والقصالة: ما يعزل من البر إذا نقى ثم يداس الثانية
And al-qasalah: what is separated from the wheat when it is winnowed and then threshed a second time.
والقصل في الطعام مثل الزوان
And al-qasl in food is like darnel.
قد غربلت وكربلت من القصل
I have winnowed and sifted it from the qasl.
والقصلة من الابل، نحو الصرمة
And al-qaslah of camels, like al-sarmah (a group of ten).