وقص

Root entry · 22 derived lemmas

The root وقص (waqaṣa) primarily denotes breaking, crushing, or snapping, often referring to the neck. It extends metaphorically to breaking things, reducing them, or causing them to be stunted. It also appears in terms related to specific geographical locations, personal names, and measurements in taxation.

Derived headwords

وَقَصَverb

1.
to break the neckboth
To break and crush the neck of something or someone.
2.
to break, crushboth
To break or crush something, like sticks or the ground.
3.
to be stuntedclassical
To be short or stunted, particularly referring to the neck.

وقص عنقه، كوعد، {يقصها} وقصا: كسرها ودقها — He broke its neck, like wa'ada, he breaks it with breaking: he broke and crushed it.

وقص الشيء، إذا كسرته — He broke the thing, if you broke it.

وقص الفرس الآكام: دقها — The horse broke the hills: it crushed them.

فَوْقَصَverb

1.
to break the neckboth
To break the neck, used transitively.

حتى أتاه قرنه فوقصه — Until his equal came to him and broke his neck.

مَوْقُوصadjective

1.
broken-neckedboth
One whose neck has been broken.
2.
paralyzedclassical
Describing a camel or other animal whose ailment has caused paralysis in its back.

فهو موقوص — and he is broken-necked.

وقص البعير، فهو موقوص، إذا أصبح داؤه في ظهره لا حراك به — The camel broke its neck, and it is broken-necked, if its ailment in its back causes it to be immobile.

الْوَقْصnoun

1.
breaking of the neckboth
The act of breaking the neck.
2.
shortness of the neckboth
A short neck, as if it were bent into the chest.
3.
defect, flawclassical
A defect or flaw.
4.
shortage, deficiencyclassical
A deficiency or reduction.
5.
small firewoodclassical
Small pieces of wood used to start a fire.
6.
tax gapclassical
The amount between two fixed tax thresholds, especially in livestock.

الوقص: كسر العنق — Al-waqṣ: breaking the neck.

الوقص: قصر العنق — Al-waqṣ: shortness of the neck.

الوقص: العيب — Al-waqṣ: the defect.

الوقص: النقص — Al-waqṣ: the shortage.

الوقص: صغار الحطب الذي تشيع به النار — Al-waqṣ: small firewood with which the fire spreads.

وهو ما بين الفريضتين، نحو أن تبلغ الإبل خمسا، ففيها شاة. ولا شيء في الزيادة حتى تبلغ عشرا، فما بين الخمس إلى العشر وقص — And it is what is between the two obligations, such as when camels reach five, then there is a sheep. And there is nothing in the increase until it reaches ten, so what is between five and ten is waqṣ.

أَوْقَصadjective

1.
short-neckedboth
Having a short neck, one whose neck is bent inwards.

أوقص، إذا كان مائل العنق قصيرها — Awqaṣ, if he had a bent and short neck.

فهو أوقص — so he is short-necked.

وَقَصَاءadjective

1.
short-neckedboth
A woman with a short neck.

وامرأة وق صاء — and a woman short-necked.

وَاقِصَةname

1.
Waqiṣah (place name)classical
A place name, a location between Al-Far'ah and 'Uqbat al-Shayṭān, a stopping point for the Iraqi pilgrims from Banu Shihab of Tayy.
2.
Waqiṣah (water source)classical
A water source belonging to Banu Ka'b.

واقصة: ع، بين الفرعاء وعقبة الشيطان، بالبادية — Waqiṣah: a place, between Al-Far'ah and 'Uqbat al-Shayṭān, in the desert.

واقصة: ماء لبني كعب — Waqiṣah: a water source for Banu Ka'b.

سَعْد أَبِي وَقَّاصname

1.
Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqasboth
A prominent companion of the Prophet Muhammad, one of the ten promised paradise, known for his prayers being answered.

أبو إسحاق سعد بن أبي وقاص مالك بن وهيب — Abu Ishaq Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas Malik ibn Wahib.

الْوَقَّاصِيَّةname

1.
Al-Waqqaṣiyyahclassical
A place in Al-Sawad, near Baduria, named after Waqqaṣ ibn 'Abdah ibn Waqqaṣ al-Ḥārithī.

والوقاصية: ة، بالسواد من ناحية بادوريا — And Al-Waqqaṣiyyah: a place, in Al-Sawad, from the region of Baduria.

وَقَصَ على ناركphrase

1.
break firewoodclassical
To break firewood to put on the fire.

وقص على نارك — Break firewood for your fire.

الْأَوْقَاصnoun

1.
tax gapsclassical
The amounts between fixed tax obligations, particularly in livestock.
2.
scattered peopleclassical
People who are scattered or dispersed.
3.
lowly peopleclassical
People of low origin or status; riffraff.

وهو ما بين الفريضتين — And it is what is between the two obligations.

صاروا أوقاصا، أي شلالا متبددين — They became scattered, meaning dispersed and spread out.

أتانا أوقاص من بني فلان، أي زعانف — We received scattered people from so-and-so's family, meaning riffraff.

تَوَاقَصَverb

1.
to stoop, bendclassical
To bend or stoop, especially to hold something close to the neck.
2.
to imitate the short-neckedclassical
To resemble or imitate someone with a short neck.

ثم تواقصت عليها كي لا تسقط — Then I stooped over it so it would not fall.

تشبه بالأوقص، وهو الذي قصرت عنقه خلقة — He resembles the short-necked, who naturally has a short neck.

تَوَقَّصَverb

1.
to move with short stridesclassical
To move with short, quick steps, faster than a walk but shorter than a gallop.
2.
to tread heavilyclassical
To walk with heavy steps, as if crushing what is beneath.

أن يقصر عن الخبب ويزيد على العنق وينقل نقل الخبب — To be shorter than a gallop, faster than a walk, and to move with the gait of a gallop.

مر فلان يتوقص به فرسه، إذا نزا نزوا يقارب الخطو — So-and-so's horse moved with him, if it leaped with steps that were close together.

الْوَاقِصَةnoun

1.
broken-necked (animal)classical
An animal that is broken-necked or paralyzed.

قضى في الواقصة والقامصة والقارصة بالدية أثلاثا — He ruled on the broken-necked, the limping, and the biting with a third of the blood money.

وَقَصَ على نارهverb

1.
to break firewoodclassical
To break firewood to put on the fire.

وقص على ناره — He broke firewood for his fire.

وَقَصَ الذبابverb

1.
to swat fliesclassical
To swat flies with the tail, killing them.

فتقص عنها الذباب وقصا: إذا ضربته به فقتلته — And the flies were swatted away by it with a swat: if he hit it with it and killed it.

وَقِيصname

1.
Waqīṣclassical
A proper name.

ووقيص، كزبير: علم — and Waqīṣ, like zubayr: a proper name.

وَقَّاصname

1.
Waqqaṣboth
A proper name of companions.

ووقاص بن محرز المدلجي — and Waqqaṣ ibn Muḥriz al-Mudlajī.

ووقاص بن قمامة — and Waqqaṣ ibn Qamāmah.

أَبُو الْوَقَّاصname

1.
Abu al-Waqqaṣboth
A kunyah (patronymic) or name.

وأبو الوقاص روى عن الحسن البصري — And Abu al-Waqqaṣ narrated from Al-Hasan Al-Baṣrī.

الْوَاقُوصَةname

1.
Al-Wāqūṣahclassical
A valley in the land of Ḥawrān in Sham, where Muslims camped during the Battle of Yarmouk.

والواقوصة: واد في أرض حوران بالشأم — And Al-Wāqūṣah: a valley in the land of Ḥawrān in Sham.

الْوِقَاصnoun

1.
nets for catching birdsclassical
The plural of wiqāṣ, which are nets used for catching birds.

وهي شباك يصطاد بها الطير — And they are nets with which birds are caught.

الْأَوْقَصname

1.
Abu Khalid Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Rahmanclassical
A judge in Mecca, known for being short.

والأوقص: هو أبو خالد محمد بن عبد الرحمن بن هشام، المكي، قاضيها — And Al-Awqaṣ: he is Abu Khalid Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Hisham, the Meccan, its judge.

Parallel reading

وقص عنقه، كوعد، {يقصها} وقصا: كسرها ودقها

He broke its neck, like wa'ada, he breaks it with breaking: he broke and crushed it.

فوقصت العنق بنفسها، لازم متعد

The neck broke by itself, intransitive and transitive.

ما زال شيبان شديدا هبصه حتى أتاه قرنه فوقصه

Shayban continued to be strong in his stride until his equal came to him and broke his neck.

وقص البعير، فهو موقوص، إذا أصبح داؤه في ظهره لا حراك به

The camel broke its neck, and it is broken-necked, if its ailment in its back causes it to be immobile.

ووقصت به راحلته تقصه

And his mount broke its neck with him, breaking it.

الوقص: كسر العنق

Al-waqṣ: breaking the neck.

أوقص، إذا كان مائل العنق قصيرها

Awqaṣ, if he had a bent and short neck.

وقصت الشيء، إذا كسرته

He broke the thing, if you broke it.

تقص المقاصر بعدما ... كربت حياة النار للمتنور

She breaks the long strides after... she brought the fire of life close to the one who lights it.

وقص الفرس الآكام: دقها

The horse broke the hills: it crushed them.

تقص الإكام بذات خف ميثم

She crushes the hills with a soft-footed, well-shod hoof.

واقصة: ع، بين الفرعاء وعقبة الشيطان، بالبادية

Waqiṣah: a place, between Al-Far'ah and 'Uqbat al-Shayṭān, in the desert.

واقصة: ماء لبني كعب

Waqiṣah: a water source for Banu Ka'b.

أبو إسحاق سعد بن أبي وقاص مالك بن وهيب

Abu Ishaq Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas Malik ibn Wahib.

والوقاصية: ة، بالسواد من ناحية بادوريا

And Al-Waqqaṣiyyah: a place, in Al-Sawad, from the region of Baduria.

الوقص: العيب

Al-waqṣ: the defect.

الوقص: النقص

Al-waqṣ: the shortage.

وهو ما بين الفريضتين، نحو أن تبلغ الإبل خمسا، ففيها شاة. ولا شيء في الزيادة حتى تبلغ عشرا، فما بين الخمس إلى العشر وقص

And it is what is between the two obligations, such as when camels reach five, then there is a sheep. And there is nothing in the increase until it reaches ten, so what is between five and ten is waqṣ.

أتي بوقص في الصدقة وهو باليمن

He was brought waqṣ in the Zakat while he was in Yemen.

الوقص بالتحريك: هو ما وجبت فيه الغنم من فرائض الصدقة في الإبل، ما بين الخمس إلى العشرين

Al-waqṣ, with vowelization: it is what the sheep are due from the obligations of Zakat in camels, between five and twenty.

والوقائص: رءوس عظام القصرة

And Al-Waqā'iṣ: the heads of the large vertebrae of the neck.

خذ أوقص الطريقين، أي أقربهما

Take the shortest of the two roads, meaning the closest.

صاروا أوقاصا، أي شلالا متبددين

They became scattered, meaning dispersed and spread out.

تواقصت عليها كي لا تسقط

I stooped over it so it would not fall.

التوقص: أن يقصر عن الخبب ويزيد على العنق وينقل نقل الخبب

Al-tawaqquṣ: to be shorter than a gallop, faster than a walk, and to move with the gait of a gallop.

مر فلان يتوقص به فرسه، إذا نزا نزوا يقارب الخطو

So-and-so's horse moved with him, if it leaped with steps that were close together.

وقص رأسه، إذا غمزته غمزا شديدا

He massaged his head, if you massaged him intensely.

قضى في الواقصة والقامصة والقارصة بالدية أثلاثا

He ruled on the broken-necked, the limping, and the biting with a third of the blood money.

فتقص عنها الذباب وقصا: إذا ضربته به فقتلته

And the flies were swatted away by it with a swat: if he hit it with it and killed it.

والواقوصة: واد في أرض حوران بالشأم

And Al-Wāqūṣah: a valley in the land of Ḥawrān in Sham.

وهي شباك يصطاد بها الطير

And they are nets with which birds are caught.