قنص
1 قَنَصَهُ, (
S,
M,
A,
K,)
aor. ـِ (
M,
A,
K,)
inf. n. قَنْصٌ (
S,
M,) and قَنَصٌ; (
M;) and ↓ اقتنصهُ; and ↓ تقنّصهُ; (
S,
M,
A,
K;) He took, captured, or caught, it; made it his prey; snared, insnared, or entrapped, it; hunted, or chased, it; or sought to take, capture, or catch, it; syns. صَادَهُ, (
S,
M,
A,
K,) and اِصْطَادَهُ, (
S,
K,) and تَصَيَّدَهُ; (
S;) namely, a wild animal, or a number of wild animals. (
M, A.) [Hence] you say, هُوَ يَقْنِصُ الفُرْسَانَ, and ↓ يَقْتَنِصُهُمْ, (
tropical:) He captures the horsemen. (
TA.) 5 تَقَنَّصَ see 1.
8 إِقْتَنَصَ see 1, in two places.
b2: As being likened to “ the taking ” of the object of the chase, الاِقْتِنَاصُ signifies (
tropical:) The taking anything quickly. (
Kull.)
b3: [And hence, (assumed
tropical:) The apprehending quickly.]
قَنَصٌ [originally an
inf. n.] What is taken, captured, caught, insnared, entrapped, hunted, or chased, of wild animals or the like; as also ↓ قَنِيصٌ. (
S,
M,
A,
K.) قَنِيصٌ: see قَنَصٌ:
A2: and قَانِصٌ, in two places.
قَنَّاصٌ: see قَانِصٌ.
قَانِصٌ One who takes, captures, catches, insnares, entraps, hunts, or chases, wild animals or the like; as also ↓ قَنِيصٌ (
S,
M,
A,
K) and ↓ قَنَّاصٌ: (
S,
M,
K:) or ↓ قَنِيصٌ signifies persons who do so, collectively; and is [a
quasi-pl. n.] similar to كَلِيبٌ and مَعِيزٌ and حَمِيرٌ: (
IJ,
TA:) the
pl. of قَانِصٌ is قُنَّاصٌ: (
A,
TA:) and ↓ قَانِصَةٌ signifies the same as the
pl.: and also low, vile; or mean, persons. (
TA. [See also طُمْرُورٌ, in an explanation of which the
sing. قَانِصٌ is
app. used in like manner.]) You say, جَآءَ القَنِيصُ بِالْقَنِيصِ The sportsman came with the game taken. (
A.) And it is said in a
trad., فَتُخْرِجُ النَّارُ عَلَيْهِمْ قَوَانِصَ (assumed
tropical:) [And the fire of hell shall send forth against them snatchers]; meaning, it shall snatch them in pieces like as the beast or bird of prey snatches its prey: the
sing. is ↓ قَانِصَةٌ: (
K,
TA:) or, as some say, the meaning is, sparks like the قَوَانِص of birds, i. e., their حَوَاصِل. (
TA.) See what follows.
قَانِصَةٌ: see قَانِصٌ, in two places.
b2: Also,
sing. of قَوَانِصٌ, which signifies [The intestines, or bowels, of a bird, into which the food passes from the stomach;] in a bird, what the مَصَارِين are in other creatures: (
S,
K:) or the
pl. [or
sing. (
K, art. جرأ,)] signifies
i. q. جِرِّئَةٌ: (
L,
TA:) or the قَانِصَة is, in a bird, like the حَوْصَلَة [or lower part of the belly] in a man: (
M,
TA:) or [the stomach, or triple stomach, or the crop, or craw, of a bird;] in a bird, like the كَرِش [in other creatures]: (
TA:) [see الجِرِّئَهٌ:] or a thing like a little burrow in the belly of a bird: (
T,
A,
L:) [in the present day it is applied to the gizzard, or true stomach, which is perhaps meant by the last of the preceding explanations; and is also pronounced قَوْنِصَة:] or the
pl., in relation to a bird, signifies
i. q. حَوَاصِل [
pl. of حَوْصَلَة]: (
TA:) the word is also written with س; but is better with ص. (
TA.)
