قعص
1 قَعَصَهُ: see 4, throughout.
A2: قُعِصَتِ الغَنَمُ The sheep, or goats, were seized, or affected, with the disease called قُعَاص,
q. v. (
S,
K.) 4 اقعصهُ He slew him on the spot; (
S,
A,
K;) as also ↓ قَعَصَهُ, (
A,
K,)
aor. ـَ (
K,)
inf. n. قَعْصٌ: (
TK:) or both signify he slew him quickly: or the former signifies he struck, or shot at, it, (a thing, or an object of the chase,) and it died on the spot, before it was [struck or] shot: and he hastened and completed, or made sure or certain, his (a man's) slaughter: and ↓ قِعْصَةٌ is a
subst. derived from it [
app. signifying the act]. (
L,
TA.) Yousay also, اقعصهُ بِالرُّمْحِ, and ↓ قَعَصَهُ, He thrust him, or pierced him, with the spear, quickly: or from behind. (
TA.) 7 انقعص He died. (
K.) قَعْصٌ A quick death: (
S,
A,
K:) and a quick slaughter; as also ↓ قَعَصٌ. (
TA.) You say, مَاتَ قَعْصًا He (a man,
S, A) died on the spot, from a blow or a shot. (
S,
A,
K.) And it is said in a
trad., مَنْ خَرَجَ مُجَاهِدًا فِى سَبِيلِ اللّٰهِ فَقُتِلَ قَعْصًا فَقَدِ اسْتَوْجَبَ المَآبَ [Whoso goeth forth as a warrior in the cause of God, and is slain quickly, or suddenly, has a just claim to the permanent abode of happiness in the other world]: (
S, *
TA:) alluding to the مآب mentioned in the
Kur xxxviii. 24 and 39. (
Az,
TA.) قَعَصٌ: see قَعْصٌ.
قِعْصَةٌ: see 4.
طَعْنَةٌ قَعْصَآءُ A thrust, or wound, with a spear or the like, that kills quickly. (
TA.) قُعَاصٌ A certain disease which attacks sheep or goats, (
S,
A,
K,) in consequence of which something flows from their noses, (
TA,) killing them immediately, (
S,
A,
K,) on the spot: (
A:) and which kills men on the spot: (
A:) and a certain disease in the breast, or chest, which is as though it broke the neck. (
Lth,
K.) It is said in a
trad., وَمُوتَانٌ يَكُونُ فِى النَّاسِ كَقُعَاصِ الغَنَمِ [and a mortality which shall be among men, like the قعاص of sheep or goats]. (
S.) قَعَّاصٌ: see what next follows.
مِقْعَصٌ: see what next follows.
مِقْعَاصٌ A lion that kills quickly; as also ↓ مِقْعَصٌ and ↓ قَعَّاصٌ. (
K.)
b2: See also what next follows.
غَنَمٌ مَقْعُوصَةٌ Sheep, or goats, seized, or affected, with the disease called قُعَاص: (
S,
K:)
accord. to
IAar, ↓ شَاةٌ مِقْعَاصٌ signifies a sheep, or goat, having the mortal disease so called. (
TA.)
