نبش

1 نَبَشَ, aor. ـُ (S, Mgh, Msb,) inf. n. نَبْشٌ, (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K) He took, drew, or pulled, out, or forth, (Mgh, Msb, K,) a thing, (Msb, TA,) [as] a leguminous plant, (S,) or a thing buried, (Mgh,) or a thing after burial, (TA,) [as] a corpse; (S, TA;) whence نَبَّاشٌ, q. v.: (S, Mgh:) he made a thing that was concealed or covered to come out or forth, or to become apparent. (A, K.) b2: [Hence,] هُوَ يَنْبُشُ لِعِيَالِهِ, (A, TA,) inf, n. as above, (K, TA,) (tropical:) He draws forth sustenance hence and thence for his family, or household: (A:) or (tropical:) he gains, or earns, or seeks sustenance, for them. (K, * TA.) b3: and هُوَ يَنْبُشُ الأَسْرَارَ, (A, TA,) and الحَدِيثَ, inf. n. as above, (K, TA,) (tropical:) He draws forth, or elicits, secrets, and discourse, narration, or information: (K, * TA:) or نَبَشْتُ السِّرَّ signifies (assumed tropical:) I divulged the secret. (Msb.) b4: And العُرُوقَ ↓ إِنْتَبَشَ (tropical:) He drew forth, or extracted, the veins. (A.) b5: Also, He removed, a thing from over another thing which it covered or concealed; (A, Msb, * K;) and earth from a thing beneath it: (A, Msb: *) whence نَبَّاشٌ, q. v. (Msb, K.) b6: and hence, نَبَشَ القَبْرَ [He uncovered, or he rifled, or ransacked, the grave]. (A, Mgh, Msb.) A2: Also, He dug with the hand; as also نَبَثَ. (Az, in S, art. نبث.) 5 هُوَ يَتَنَبَّشُ عَنِ الأَسْرَارِ [app. (assumed tropical:) He endeavours to draw forth or elicit, or he searches out, secrets]. (TA.) 8 إِنْتَبَشَ see 1.

نِبَاشَةٌ The trade, or occupation, of the نَبَّاش. (TA.) نَبِيشَةٌ Earth extracted from a well or burrow or the like. Hence,] نَبِيشَةُ اليَرْبُوعِ [The earth extracted by the jerboa in making its burrow]. (T in art. دم.) نَبَّاشٌ One who rifles, or ransacks, graves; who takes forth the dead from them; or who uncovers graves. (Mgh, Msb.) See 1, in two places.

أَنْبُوشٌ A thing that is taken, drawn, or pulled, out, or forth: (Lh:) the lower part of leguminous plants taken, drawn, or pulled, out, or forth: (S, K:) or trees pulled out by the trunk and roots: (K:) as also ↓ أُنْبُوشَةٌ: (TA:) or ↓ both signify what is torn out by the rain: (AHeyth:) pl. أَنَابِيشُ, (S, K,) the pl. of both the above words. (AHeyth.) b2: Also, Full-grown unripe dates that are pierced with thorns in order that they may ripen. (TA.) b3: And the pl. signifies Small arrows. (Sgh.) Some say that this pl. has no singular. (MF.) أُنْبُوشَةٌ: see أُنْبُوشٌ, in two places.

نفط

1 نَفِطَتْ يَدُهُ, (S, Msb,) or كَفُّهُ, (K,) aor. ـَ (Msb, K,) inf. n. نَفَطٌ and نَفِيطٌ (S, Msb, K,) and نَفْطٌ; (K;) or, accord. to Az, نَفَطتْ, aor. 2, inf. n. نَفْطٌ and نَفِيطٌ; (TA;) His hand became blistered, or vesicated; it had water, or fluid, between the skin and the flesh; (Az, Msb;) i. q. مَجِلَتْ; (S, K;) as also ↓ تنفّطت: (S:) or it became ulcerated by work. (K.) A2: نَفَطَتْ aor. ـِ inf. n. نَفِيطٌ (ADk, S, K) and نَفْطٌ. (TA,) She (a goat) did what was like sneezing (نَثَرَتْ [app. meaning scattered forth moisture or the like]) with her nose: (ADk, S, K:) or sneezed. (K.) It is said in a proverb, لَا تَنْفِطُ فِيهِ عَنَاقٌ meaning (assumed tropical:) Blood-revenge will not be taken for him; i. e. for this slain person. (TA.) b2: Also, (S, K,) aor. ـِ inf. n. نَفِيطٌ, (S,) It (a cookingpot, قِدْرٌ,) boiled, (S, K,) and poured forth [some of its contents], (S,) or so that it threw forth what resembled arrows; (TA;) a dial. var. of نَفَتَتْ. (S.) b3: نَفَطَ, aor. ـِ (assumed tropical:) He was angry: or he burned with anger: as also ↓ تنفّط. (K, TA.) You say, إِنَّ فُلَانًا لَيَنْفِطُ غَضَبًا, (S, TA,) (tropical:) Verily such a one burns with anger: (TA:) or it is like يَنْفِتُ [meaning boils with anger; or makes a noise like coughing, in anger; or blows, in anger]: (S:) [for the inf. n.] نَفَطَانٌ signifies the doing what resembles coughing: and blowing, on an occasion of anger: and so نَفَتَانٌ. (TA.) b4: Also, (K,) aor. ـِ inf. n. نَفِيطٌ, said of an antelope; الصَّبِىُّ in the K, being a mistake for الظَّبْىِ, as in the TS and L, (TA,) (assumed tropical:) He uttered a sound, or cry. (TS, L, K.) b5: (assumed tropical:) He (a man) spoke, or talked, unintelligibly; (K, TA;) as though by reason of his anger. (TA.) b6: نَفَطَتِ اسْتُهُ (assumed tropical:) His anus emitted wind with a sound. (Ibn-'Abbád, K.) 3 نَاْفَطَ see 6.4 انفط It (work) caused the hand to become blistered, or vesicated: or caused it to become ulcerated. (K.) [See 1, first sentence.]5 تَنَفَّطَ see 1, in two places.6 القِدْرُ تَنَافَطُ [for تَتَنَافَطُ, in the CK ↓ تُنافِطُ,] The cooking-pot throws forth foam; (K;) a dial. var. of تَنَافَتُ [q. v.] (TA.) نَفْطٌ, accord. to the T, Pustules which come forth upon the hand, in consequence of work, full of water, or fluid; (Mgh;) blisters, or vesicles, upon the hand; a contraction of ↓ نَفِطٌ; which is pl. [or rather coll. gen. n.] of ↓ نَفِطَةٌ, sometimes contracted into ↓ نَفْطَةٌ; and sometimes نَفِطَاتٌ is used as pl. of نَفِطَةٌ: (Msb:) or ↓ نَفِطَةٌ signifies [simply] a pustule; as also ↓ نَفْطَةٌ and ↓ نِفْطَةٌ; (K;) and the lawyers call it ↓ نَفَّاطَةٌ, from this word as signifying “ a place whence نِفْط issues,” or it may be [originally] an intensive act. part. n. (Msb.) b2: Also, and ↓ نَفِطٌ, (Msb,) or ↓ نَفِطَةٌ and ↓ نَفْطَةٌ and ↓ نِفْطَةٌ, (Mgh, Sgh, K,) The small-pox: (Mgh, Sgh, Msb, K:) accord. to Z, ↓ نفظ [so in the TA, without any syll. signs,] signifies, in the dial. of Hudheyl, the small-pox in children and in sheep or goats. (TA.) A2: See also what next follows.

نِفْطٌ and ↓ نَفْطٌ, (S, Msb, K,) the former of which is the more chaste, (ISk, S, Msb, K, *) or, as some say, the latter, (Msb,) or the latter is a mistake, (As, K,) [Naphtha: and petroleum: both so called in the present day:] a certain oil, (S,) well known, (K,) with which camels are smeared for the mange, or scab, and galls on the back, and tikes; it does not include what is termed كُحَيْل: (ISd, TA:) or, accord. to AHn, i. q. كُحَيْلٌ: accord. to A'Obeyd, i. q. قَطِرَانٌ; but AHn denies this; and says that it is an exuding fluid (حِلَابَة) of a mountain, [found] in the bottom of a well, with which fire is kindled: (TA:) the best is the white: it is a dissolvent; and opens obstructions; removes the colic; and kills worms that are in the vulva, when used in the manner of a suppository. (K.) نَفِطٌ: see نَفْطٌ, throughout: b2: and for the last, see also نَفِيطَةٌ.

نَفْطَةٌ: see نَفْيطٌ, throughout: b2: and for the last, see also نَفِيطَةٌ.

نِفْطَةٌ: see نَفْطٌ, throughout: b2: and for the last, see also نَفِيطَةٌ.

نَفِطَةٌ: see نَفْطٌ, throughout: b2: and for the last, see also نَفِيطَةٌ.

نَفَاطَةٌ [accord. to the CK, but erroneously, نَفَاطٌ]: see نَفَّاطَةٌ, in two places.

كَفٌّ نَفِيطَةٌ A hand ulcerated by work: or blistered, or vesicated; having water or fluid, between the skin and the flesh: and ↓ نَافِطَةٌ signifies the same; and so ↓ مَنْفُوطَةٌ; (K;) of which last, however, ISd says, it is thus related by the lexicologists; but there is no way of accounting for it in my opinion; for it is from أَنْفَطَ. (TA.) [Golius also mentions ↓ نَفِطَةٌ as signifying A hand affected with pustules; on the authority of Meyd; and it is agreeable with analogy.]

نَفَّاطٌ A thrower of نِفْط [or naphtha]: pl. ↓ نَفَّاطَةٌ, [or rather this is a coll. gen. n.,] (Msb,) and نَفَّاطُونَ. (Mgh.) نَفَّاطَةٌ A place whence نِفْط [or naphtha] is extracted; (El-Fárábee, Msb, K;) as also ↓ نَفَاطَةٌ; (K;) but the former is the more known; (TA;) a place where it is generated; a mine, or source, thereof; a word similar to مَلَّاحَةٌ (Mgh, Msb) and قَيَّارَةٌ: (Mgh:) pl. نَفَّاطَاتٌ. (Msb.) b2: A kind of lamp made to give light by means thereof; as also ↓ نَفَاطَةٌ; (K;) but the former is the more known. (TA.) b3: An instrument with which نِفْط is thrown; (Mgh;) an instrument of copper, or brass, in which نِفْط is thrown, (K, TA,) and fire; (TA;) a قَارُورَة of نِفْط, which is thrown: (Msb:) pl. as above. (Mgh.) Yousay, خَرَجَ النَّفَّاطُونَ بِأَيْدِيِهمُ النَّفَّاطَاتُ [The throwers of naphtha went forth, having in their hands the instruments with which to throw it]. (Mgh.) b4: See also نَفَّاطٌ. b5: And see نَفْطٌ.

كَفٌّ نَافِطَةٌ: see نَفِيطَةٌ. b2: رَغْوَةٌ نَافِطَةٌ Froth, or foam, having bubbles: (Az, Msb:) pl. نَوَافِطُ (TA.) كَفٌّ مَنْفُوطَةٌ: see نَفِيطَةٌ.

قدح

1 قَدَحَ الدُّودُ, (S, A,) [aor. ـَ inf. n. قَدْحٌ, (Lth, S, Mgh,) The worm, or worms, effected a cankering, or corrosion, (Lth, S, A, Mgh,) فِى

الشَّجَرِ, [in the trees], (Lth, S, Mgh,) or فِى العُودِ [in the wood], (A,) and فِى الأَسْنَانِ [in the teeth]. (Lth, S, A, Mgh.) And قُدِحَ and قُدِحَ فِيهِ, inf. n. as above, It (the tree, and the tooth,) became cankered, or corroded. (L.) b2: [Hence,] قَدَحَ فِيهِ, (Msb, K,) or فِى عِرْضِهِ, and فِى سَاقِهِ, (A,) aor. ـَ (Msb, K,) inf. n. as above, (Msb,) from the incidency of the قَوَادِح [or canker-worms] in the سَاق [or stem] of the tree, (A,) (tropical:) He impaired, injured, detracted from, impugned, or attacked, his honour, or reputation; blamed, censured, or reproached, him; found fault with him; or spoke against him. (A, Msb, K.) And قَدَحَ فِى نَسَبِهِ (tropical:) He found fault with, or spoke against, his parentage, genealogy, or pedigree. (S, A, Msb.) And قَدَحَ فِى عَدَالَتِهِ (assumed tropical:) He impugned his rectitude as a witness, mentioning something that should have the effect of causing his testimony to be rejected. (Msb.) And قَدَحَ فِى سَاقِ أَخِيهِ (tropical:) He acted dishonestly, or insincerely, towards his brother, and did that which was displeasing to him, or that which he hated. (L, TA.) And فُلَانٌ يَفُتُّ فِى

عَضُدِ فُلَانٍ وَيَقْدَحُ فِى سَاقِهِ (assumed tropical:) [Such a one seeks to injure such a one by diminishing, or impairing, (in number or power) the people of his house, or his aiders, or assistants; and blames, censures, or reproaches, him]: by عَضُدِهِ being meant أَهْلِ بَيْتِهِ; and by نَفْسِهِ سَاقِهِ. (IAar, T. [See عَضُدٌ.]) b3: قَدَحَ فِى القِدْحِ, (A, K, TA,) aor. as above, (TA,) He (a maker of arrows, A) made a hole in [the end of] the [arrow in the state in which it is termed] قِدْح with the tang of the iron head [for the insertion of the said tang]: (A, K, TA:) which hole is termed ↓ مَقْدَحٌ. (A, TA.) b4: قَدَحَ خِتَامَ الخَابِيَةِ He broke the sealed clay upon the mouth of the [wine-jar called] خابية. (TA. [Accord. to the TA, a verse of Lebeed cited voce أَدْكَنُ presents an ex. of the verb in this sense: but see the explanation given in art. دكن.]) b5: قَدَحَ العَيْنَ [He (the operator termed ↓ قَدَّاح, A) performed upon the eye the operation of couching;] he extracted from the eye the corrupt fluid. (S, A. [See نَقَبَ العَيْنَ.]) b6: قَدَحَ النَّارَ, (S, L,) aor. and inf. n. as above, He struck, or produced, fire with a flint &c.: (L:) or قَدَحَ النَّارَ مِنَ الزَّنْدِ [or الزَّنْدَةِ i. e. He produced fire from the piece of stick, or wood, called زند, or rather from that called زندة]; as also ↓ اقتدحها: (A:) or قَدَحَ بِالزَّنْدِ, and ↓ اقتدح, (K,) or الزَّنْدَ ↓ اقتدح, (S,) He endeavoured to produce fire with the زند. (K.) اُحْنُ لِى أَقْدَحْ لَكَ [app. Bend thou to me branches and I will produce fire for thee to kindle them] is a prov., meaning كُنْ لِى أَكُنْ لَكَ [Be thou a helpmate for me and I will be a helpmate for thee]. (TA.) See also another prov. cited and expl. voce دِفْلَى. b7: قَدَحَ الشَّىْءُ فِى صَدْرِى (assumed tropical:) The thing made an impression in my bosom, or mind. (L.) b8: قَدَحَ, (S, A, L,) aor. and inf. n. as above; (L;) and ↓ اقتدح; (S, A, L, K;) He laded out broth [&c.] (S, A, L, K) with a ladle. (A.) and قَدَحَ القِدْرَ He laded out what was in the cookingpot. (L.) And قَدَحَ مَا فِى أَسْفَلِ القِدْرِ He laded out with pains what was in the bottom of the cooking-pot. (L.) And قَدَحَ مَا فِى أَسْفَلِ البِئْرِ [He laded out what was in the bottom of the well]. (A.) A2: قَدَحَتْ عَيْنُهُ, (S, A,) inf. n. قَدْحٌ; (K;) and ↓ قدّحت, (S,) inf. n. تَقْدِيحٌ; (K;) (assumed tropical:) His eye sank, or became depressed, (S, A, K,) so that it became like the قَدَح [q. v.]. (A. [See an ex. of the latter v. in a verse cited in the first paragraph of art. سلب.]) 2 قَدَّحَ see above, last explanation.

A2: قدّح فَرَسَهُ, (S,) inf. n. تَقْدِيحٌ, (K,) (tropical:) He made his horse lean, lank, or slender: (S, K, * TA:) or قَدَّحْتُ خَيْلِى, inf. n. as above, (tropical:) I made my horses to be [like the arrows termed] قِدَاح in slenderness. (A.) 3 مُقَادَحَةٌ is (tropical:) syn. with مُقَادَعَةٌ, [so in a copy of the A, an evident mistranscription for مُقَاذَعَةٌ, with ذ,] from القَدْحُ meaning “ the act of blaming, censuring,” &c., syn. الطَّعْنُ: thus in the saying, جَرَتْ بَيْنَهُمَا مُقَادَحَةٌ (tropical:) [A mutual reviling, and vying in foul, or unseemly, speech or language, occurred between them two]. (A.) b2: And قادحهُ signifies (tropical:) نَاظَرَهُ [app. as meaning جَادَلَهُ i. e. (tropical:) He contended in an altercation, or disputed, or litigated, with him: &c.]. (A.) 5 تقدّح: see 5 in art. قرح.6 تقاذحا (tropical:) [app. They contended in an altercation, or disputed, or litigated, each with the other]. (A: there immediately following قَادَحَهُ as meaning نَاظَرَهُ.) 7 انقدحت النَّارُ مِنَ العُودِ Fire was, or became, struck, or produced, from the wood, or stick. (L in art. صلد.) 8 إِقْتَدَحَ see 1, latter half, in three places. b2: اقتدح بِزَنْدِهِ is [also] a tropical phrase [meaning (tropical:) He endeavoured to avail himself of his (another's) instrumentality: or he availed himself thereof: see the phrase أَنَا مُقْتَدِحٌ بِزَنْدِكَ in art. زند]. (A.) b3: And اقتدح الأَمْرَ means (tropical:) He considered, and looked into, the affair, seeking to elicit what would be its issue, or result. (A, K, TA.) b4: See also 1, again; last quarter.10 استقدح زِنَادَهُ [lit. signifies He asked, or demanded, that his (another's) زِنَاد (pl. of زَنْدٌ q. v.) should produce fire: and] is a tropical phrase [meaning (tropical:) He asked, or demanded, that he might avail himself of his (another's) instrumentality]. (A.) قَدْحٌ and ↓ قَادِحٌ, [the former, in the CK, in this case, erroneously, with fet-h to the د,] A canker, or corrosion, incident in trees and in teeth: (L, K:) [the former is originally an inf. n.: and] each, in the sense here expl., an epithet in which the quality of a subst. predominates: (L:) [they are therefore more properly to be expl. as meaning a thing that cankers, or corrodes: and ↓ the latter signifies also rottenness, decay, corruption, or unsoundness: (L:) and blackness that appears in the teeth: (S:) and a crack, or fissure, in wood, or in a stick, or rod; (S, L, K;) and so the former word. (K.) b2: إبْرَةُ القَدْحِ: see مِقْدَحٌ.

قِدْحٌ An arrow, (S, Msb, K, &c.,) [i. e.] the pared wood, or rod, of an arrow, (Mgh,) before it has been furnished with feathers and a head: (S, Mgh, Msb, K, &c.:) or an arrow when straightened, and fit to be feathered and headed: (T, voce بَرِىٌّ, q. v.:) or a rod that has attained the desired state of growth, and been pruned, and cut according to the required length for an arrow: (AHn:) and [particularly] such as is used in the game called المَيْسِر: (S, L:) pl. قِدَاحٌ, (S, A, Mgh, L, K,) a pl. of mult., (TA,) and [of pauc., and accord. to the L of قِدْحٌ in the last of the senses expl. above,] أَقْدُحُ (S, L, K) and أَقْدَاحٌ (L, TA) and أَقَادِيحُ, (S, L, K,) which last is a pl. pl. [i. e. pl. of أَقْدَاحٌ]. (L.) [One says, in speaking of the arrows used in the game called ضَرَبَ بِالقِدَاحِ المَيْسِر, and ضَرَبَ القِدَاحَ: and in speaking of the two arrows used in practising sortilege, ضَرَبَ بِالقِدْحَيْنِ: see art. ضرب, p. 1778, col. iii.] صَدَقَنِى وَسْمَ قِدْحِهِ (tropical:) He told me truly what was the brand of his gaming-arrow] is a prov.; meaning he told me the truth: (A, * TA:) so says Az: (TA:) or it means he told me what was in his mind: the وسم of the قدح is the mark that denotes its share [of the slaughtered camel]; and the sign is sometimes made by means of fire. (Meyd.) And they say, أَبْصِرْ وَسْمَ قِدْحِكَ (tropical:) [See, or look at, the brand of thy gaming-arrow]; (TA;) which is [also] a prov.; (A;) meaning know thyself. (A, TA.) And قِدْحُ ابْنِ مُقْبِلٍ (assumed tropical:) [The gaming-arrow of Ibn-Mukbil, which seems to have been one remarkable for frequent good luck,] is a proverbial expression relating to goodness of effect. (TA.) قَدَحٌ [A drinking-cup or bowl;] a certain vessel (Msb, K) for drinking, (S, Mgh,) well known, (Msb,) large enough to satisfy the thirst of two men: (A 'Obeyd, K:) or a small one and a large one: (K:) [in the K voce عُلْبَةٌ, it is applied to a vessel used for milking, sometimes made of camel's skin and sometimes of wood: it was used for drinking and for milking:] pl. أَقْدَاحٌ. (S, Mgh, Msb, K.) It is said in a trad., لَا تَجْعَلُونِى كَقَدَحِ الرَّكِبِ [Make not ye me to be like the drinkingcup of the rider on a camel]; meaning, make not ye me to be last in being mentioned; because the rider on a camel suspends his قدح on the hinder part of his saddle when he is finishing the puttingon of his apparatus, (Mgh, TA,) placing it behind him. (TA.) b2: Also A certain measure of capacity, in Egypt, containing two hundred and thirty-two دَرَاهِم. (Es-Suyootee in his “ Husn el-Mohádarah. ” See إِرْدَبٌّ, in art. ردب.) قَدْحَةٌ A single act of striking, or producing, fire. (IAth, K, TA.) b2: And hence, (tropical:) An elicitation, by examination, of the real state or nature of a case or an affair. (IAth, TA.) b3: And A single act of lading out broth [&c. with a ladle]. (L, in so in the CK.) b4: See also what next follows.

قُدْحَةٌ A ladleful of broth: (S, L, K:) and some say that ↓ قَدْحَةٌ signifies the same. (L.) You say, أَعْطِنِى قُدْحَةً مِنْ مَرَقَتِكَ Give thou to me a ladleful of thy broth. (S.) قِدْحَةٌ The act of striking or producing, fire (IAth, K, TA) with the مِقْدَحَةٌ. (IAth, TA.) Hence the saying, لَوْ شَآءَ اللّٰهُ لَجَعَلَ لِلنَّاسِ قِدْحَةَ ظُلْمَةٍ كَمَا جَعَلَ لَهُمْ قِدْحَةَ نُورٍ [If God had willed, He had assigned to men the faculty of producing darkness, like as He has assigned to them the faculty of producing light]: (K, TA:) a trad. (TA.) b2: And [hence] (assumed tropical:) Consideration and examination of an affair, to elicit what may be its issue, or result. (K, TA.) قَدُوحٌ and ↓ أَقْدَحُ, (K,) or ↓ قَدُوحٌ أَقْدَحُ, (A,) (tropical:) The ذُبَاب [i. e. common fly, or flies]: (A, K, TA:) which one never sees otherwise than as though producing fire with the two fore legs [by rubbing them together like as one rubs together the زَنْد and the زَنْدَة]. (TA. [But in a verse cited by Meyd in his Proverbs, instead of القدوح ↓ الاقدح, we find القَدُوح الأَقْرَح; and he says that الأَقْرَحُ (q. v.) is from القُرْحَةُ, and that every ذُبَاب has upon its face a قُرْحَة (or white mark): see that verse in Freytag's Arab. Prov., ii. 48: and see also EM, p. 228.]) A2: قَدُوحٌ also signifies A well (رَكِىٌّ) of which the water is laded out with the hand: (S, K:) or a well (بِئْرٌ) of which the water is not taken otherwise than by successive ladings [with the hand]. (A.) قُدُوحٌ The pieces of wood of the [camel's saddle called] رَحْل [for which the TA has رمل, but the right reading is shown by the context]: a word having no singular. (TA.) قَدِيحٌ Broth: (K: [app. because laded out:]) or some broth remaining in the bottom of the cooking-pot: (A:) or what remains in the bottom of the cooking-pot and is laded out with pains; (S, L, K;) as also ↓ مَقْدُوحٌ. (L.) قِدَاحَةٌ The art, or craft, of making vessels such as are called أَقْدَاح [pl. of قَدَحٌ]. (K.) قَدَّاحٌ: see 1, latter half: b2: and see قَدَّاحَةٌ.

As an epithet applied to a زَنْد [q. v.], (K in art. خور,) it signifies That produces much fire. (TK in that art.) b3: See also مِقْدَحٌ.

A2: Also A maker of vessels such as are called أَقْدَاح [pl. of قَدَحٌ]. (K.) A3: And a subst. signifying The blossoms of plants before they open: (TA:) or the extremities of fresh, juicy, plants: (K:) or the extremities, consisting of fresh, juicy, leaves, of plants: (TA:) or soft, or tender, suckers or offsets, of [the species of trefoil, or clover, called] فِصْفِصَة: (Az, K, TA:) of the dial. of El-'Irák: n. un. ↓ قَدَّاحَةٌ. (TA.) قَدَّاحَةٌ A stone from which one strikes fire; (As, S, A, K;) and so ↓ قَدَّاحٌ. (T, S, K.) A2: See also قَدَّاحٌ, last sentence.

قَادِحٌ: see قَادِحَةٌ: b2: and see also قَدْحٌ, in two places. b3: هٰذَا مَآءٌ لَا يَنَامُ قَادِحُهُ [This is water of which the lader-out will not sleep] is said in describing such [water] as is little in quantity. (A, TA.) قَادِحَةٌ [A canker-worm;] the worm (Lth, S, Mgh, L, K) that cankers, or corrodes, trees and teeth: (Lth, * Mgh, * L, TA:) [coll. gen. n.

↓ قَادِحٌ; occurring in the K in art. خرب, &c.:] pl. قَوَادِحُ. (L.) One says, قَدْ أَسْرَعَتْ فِى أَسْنَانِهِ القَوَادِحِ [The canker-worms have quickly come into his teeth]. (L.) أَقْدَحُ: see قَدُوحٌ, in three places.

مَقْدَحٌ: see 1, in the middle of the paragraph.

مِقْدَحٌ [A couching-needle; called thus, and ↓ إِبْرَةُ القَدْحِ, in the present day. b2: Also], (K, and so in some copies of the S,) and ↓ مِقْدَحَةٌ, (A, TA, and so in other copies of the S,) and ↓ مِقْدَاحٌ, and ↓ قَدَّاحٌ, (K,) The thing (S, A, K) of iron (A, K) with which one strikes fire. (S, A, K.) b3: And the first, A ladle; (S, A, K;) as also ↓ مِقْدَحَةٌ. (A.) ↓ سَتَأْتِيكَ بِمَا فِى قَعْرَهَا المِقْدَحَةُ [The ladle will bring to thee what is in the bottom thereof] is a prov., meaning, that to which thou art blind will become apparent, or manifest, to thee. (A.) مِقْدَحَةٌ: see the next preceding paragraph, in three places.

خَيْلٌ مُقَدَّحَةٌ (tropical:) Horses that are lean, lank, or slender; as though made slender [like the arrows termed قِدَاح: see 2]. (TA.) عَيْنٌ مُقَدِّحَةٌ (assumed tropical:) An eye that is sunk or depressed [so as to be like the قَدَح: see 1, last signification]. (TA.) And خَبْلٌ مُقَدِّحَةٌ (assumed tropical:) Horses whose eyes are sunk or depressed. (TA.) مِقْدَاحٌ: see مِقْدَحٌ.

مَقْدُوحٌ, applied to broth: see قَدِيحٌ.

شَجَرٌ مُتَقَادِحٌ Trees having soft, weak, branches, which, when the wind puts them in motion, blaze forth with fire; but which when used for producing fire for a useful purpose, yield no fire at all: whence one says to him who has no ground of pretension to respect or honour, nor parentage, genealogy, or pedigree, of a sound quality, زَنْدَاكَ لِلْمُتَقَادِحِ (assumed tropical:) [lit. Thy two pieces of stick, or wood, for producing fire pertain to the trees that have soft and weak branches, &c.]. (TA.)

قصد

1 قَصَدَهُ, and قَصَدَلَهُ, and إلَيْهِ, (S, M, A, L, Msb, K,) and نَحْوَهُ, (A in art. سمت, &c.,) aor. ـِ (M, Msb, K, &c.,) inf. n. قَصْدٌ, (S, M, Msb, K, &c.,) from which the pl. قُصُودٌ is formed by some of the professors of practical law; [and مَقْصَدٌ, q. v., is also an inf. n.;] (Msb;) He tended, repaired, or betook himself, or went, to, or towards, him, or it; (originally and properly, either in a direct course, in which sense it is in some places specially used, or indirectly; IJ, M, L;) he directed himself, or his course or aim, to, or towards, him, or it; he made for, or towards, him, or it; he made him, or it, his object; he aimed at him, or it: he sought, endeavoured after, pursued, or endeavoured to reach or attain, or obtain, him, or it: he desired it, or wished for it: he intended it; purposed it; or meant it: syn. تَوَجَّهَ وَنَهَدَ وَنَهَضَ نَحْوَهُ, (IJ, M, L,) and نَحَاهُ, (S, L,) and أَتَاهُ, (S, A, L,) and طَلَبَهُ بِعَيْنِهِ, (Msb,) and أَمَّهُ, and اِعْتَمَدَهُ, (M, L, K,) and اِعْتَزَمَهُ. (IJ, M, L.) b2: قَصَدْتُ قَصْدَهُ: see قَصْدَهُ, below. b3: قَصَدْتُهُ بِكَذَا and قَصَدْتُهُ لَهُ بِهِ [I brought to him such a thing: lit. I directed, or betook, myself to him with such a thing: see an ex. in the first para. of art. بى] (Ham. p. 41.) إِلَيْكَ قَصْدِى, and ↓ مَقْصَدِى, (the latter with fet-h to the ص, Msb), To thee is my tending, or repairing, &c. (A.) b4: قَصَدَ فِى الأَمْرِ, [aor. ـِ (A, Msb,) inf. n. قَصْدٌ; (S. M, L, Msb, K) and فِيهِ ↓ اقتصد; (M, L, K;) (tropical:) He pursued a right, or direct, course in the affair: (L:) or he followed the middle and most just way in the affair; and did not exceed the due bounds therein: (Msb:) or he acted in a moderate manner, in a manner between that of prodigality and that of parsimoniousness, in the affair: (S, L:) or he acted in a manner the contrary of that of extravagance in the affair: (M, L, K:) or he kept within the due bounds in the affair, and was content with a middle course: (A:) and in like manner, فى النَّفَقَةِ in expense: (L:) and فِى مَعِيشَتِهِ with respect to his means of subsistence. (A, L.) See also 8. b5: قَصَدَ فِى مَشْيِهِ He (a man) walked at an equable, or a moderate, pace; syn. مَشَى مُسْتُوِيًا. (L.) وَاقْصِدْ فِى مَشْيِكَ [in the Kur xxxi. 18,] (S) meansAnd go thou at a moderate pace in thy walking; neither slowly nor quickly. (Beyd, Jel.) b6: اِقْصِدْ بِذَرْعِكَ Deal thou gently with thyself; moderate thyself; restrain thyself; i. q. اِرْبَعْ عَلَى

نَفْسِكَ. (S.) b7: القَصْدَ القَصْدَ تَبْلُغُوا Keep ye to the middle way: keep ye to the middle way in affairs; in sayings and actions: so shall ye attain [to that which ye should desire]: القصد being in the accus. case as a corroborative inf. n.; and it is repeated also for the sake of corroboration. (L, from a trad.) b8: قَصَدَ, aor. ـِ (L,) inf. n. قَصْدٌ, (M, L, K,) (tropical:) It (a road, or way,) was direct, or right; had a direct, or right, tendency. (M, L, K.) عَلَى اللّٰهِ قَصْدُ السَّبِيلِ [Kur xvi. 9,] Upon God it rests to show the direct, or right way, (M, Beyd, L,) [or the right direction of the way] which leads to the truth, (Beyd,) and to invite to it by evident proofs: (M, L:) or upon God it rests to make the way direct, or right, in mercy and favour: or upon God depends one's directing his course to the [right] way. (Beyd.) b9: قَصَدَ, aor. ـِ (S, L,) inf. n. قَصْدٌ, (S, L, K,) (tropical:) He acted with justice, or equity. (S, L, K.) Abu-l-Lahhám Eth-Thaalebee says, عَلَى الحَكَمِ المَأْتِىِّ يَوْمًا إِذَا قَضَى

قَضِيَّتَهُ أَن لَّا يَجُورَ وَيَقْصِدُ (S, L) meaning, It is encumbent on the judge who is come to, any day, when he decides his case, that he do not deviate from what is right, but (بَلْ) act with justice, or equity. (IB, L.) Akh says, He means وَيَنْبَغِى أَنْ يَقْصِدَ; but as he makes an ellipsis, and puts يقصد in the place, syntactically, of ينبغى, he makes it marfooa, because it has the place of that which is [virtually] marfooa: and Fr says, he makes it marfooa because of the disagreement; for as its meaning disagrees with that of the preceding verb, it is made to disagree therefore in desinential syntax. (S, L.) A2: قَصَدَ, (S, L,) aor. ـِ (L,) inf. n. قَصْدٌ, (S, L, K,) [and قَصِدَ, see 7] He broke a stick: (S, L:) he broke in any way or manner: or he broke in halves: as also ↓ قصّد, inf. n. تَقْصِيدٌ: (L, K:) [or the latter signifies he broke many things; or broke in many pieces: see 7.]

A3: قُصِدَ لَهُ He was given a little. (S, O, K, art. قصد.) A4: قَصُدَ, aor. ـُ inf. n. قَصَادَةٌ, He (a camel, TA) became fat. (K.) A5: See also 4.2 قَصَّدَ see 1 last sentence but one.

A2: And see 4.4 أَقْصَدَنِى إِلَيْهِ الأَمُرْ The affair caused me to tend, repair, betake myself, or direct my course, to, or towards, him, or it; to aim at him, or it; to seek, endeavour after, pursue, or endeavour to reach, attain, or obtain, him, or it; to desire it, or wish for it; to intend it, or purpose it. (M, L.) b2: (tropical:) It (an arrow) hit its object, and killed on the spot. (S, K.) b3: He pierced a man with a spear, (K,) or shot him with an arrow, (TA,) and did not miss him: (K:) he struck, or shot, a thing so that it died on the spot: (As:) he killed on the spot: (Lth:) it (a serpent) killed a person (Lth, S) on the spot: (Lth:) or bit him so as to kill him. (K, * TA.) أَقْصَدَتْهُ المَنِيَّةُ Destiny killed him on the spot. (A.) A2: اقصد, (inf. n. إِقْصَادٌ, TA,) He composed [odes, or] poems of the kind termed قَصِيد; a verb similar to أَرْمَلَ and أَهْزَجَ and أَرْجَزَ: (Ibn-Buzurj, L:) also, (L, TA,) or ↓ اقتصد, inf. n. إِقْتِصَادٌ, accord. to the K, but the former is the correct form, (TA,) [or the latter is probably correct, as being similar to إِرْتَجَزَ, as well as the former, of which the act. part. n. occurs in a verse,] and ↓ قَصَدَ, inf. n. قَصْدٌ; (K;) or ↓ قَصَّدَ; (as in the M and L;) he continued uninterruptedly, (L, K,) and prolonged, (L,) the composition of [odes, or] poems of the kind termed قَصَائِد. (L, K.) See مُقْصدٌ.5 تقصّد He (a dog &c.) died. (S.) b2: and see 7, in three places.7 انقصد and ↓ تقصّد; (L, K;) and ↓ قَصِدَ, aor. ـَ inf. n. قَصَدٌ; but this form of the verb is seldom used; (L;) It broke, or became broken, in any way or manner: or it broke, or became broken, in halves: (L, K:) [but they are differently used: you say,] انقصد الرُّمْحُ [the spear broke: or] (S, L) the spear broke in halves: (L:) and الرِّمَاحُ ↓ تقصّدتِ the spears broke in many pieces. (S, A, L.) A2: انقصد and ↓ تقصّد It (marrow) became detached, or came forth, from its place. (TA.) 8 اقتصد: see 1. b2: He aimed at that which was right and just. (A, art. صيد. See 1 in that art.) A2: And see 4.

قَصْدٌ, [inf. n. of 1, q. v. b2: Used as a subst., The tending, self-direction, aim, or course of a person b3: Hence, An object of aim, of endeavour or pursuit, of desire or wish, or of intention or purpose; one's intention, intent, or meaning; as also ↓ مَقْصُودٌ. See مَقْصِدٌ] b4: A thing that is right, of what is said and of what is done; syn. سَدَادٌ and صَوَابٌ. (S, voce تَسْدِيدٌ, &c.) هُوَ عَاَى قَصْدٍ, He is following a right way, or course. (Msb.) See also قَاصِدٌ. b5: Conforming, or conformable, to the just mean. (M in art. ام.) See also مُقَصَّدٌ.

A2: A little that is given. (S, O, K, art. قصد.) A3: See also قَصِيدٌ.

قَصْدَهُ In the direction of, or towards, him, or it. Ex. قَصَدْتُ قَصْدَهُ I tended, repaired, betook myself, or directed my course, towards him, or it: (S, Msb:) [like صَمَدْتُ صَمْدَهُ, and حَرَدْتُ حَرْدَهُ, and شَدَا شَدْوَهُ, &c.:] also signifying, [I purposed his purpose, or] I pursued his (another's) way, or course, doing [and thinking] as he did. (L, in art. وكد.) أَخَذَ قَصْدَ الوَادِى, and ↓ قَصِيدَهُ, [He went towards the valley]. (A.) b2: هُوَ قَصْدَكَ, and قَصْدُكَ, He is before thee, before thy face. It is more commonly used as a subst. (M, L.) رُمْحٌ قَصِدٌ, and ↓ قَصِيدٌ, (M, L, K,) and ↓ أَقْصَادٌ, (S, L,) which is one of the words [used as a sing. epithet] having a pl. form, (Akh, S,) A spear broken: (M, L:) [or, broken in halves:] or broken in many pieces. (K.) قِصْدَةٌ A fragment; a piece of a thing that is broken: (S, K:) and any piece [of a thing]: (TA:) pl. قِصَدٌ. (S, K.) Ex. القَنَا قِصَدٌ [The spears are broken into fragments]. (S.) b2: قِصْدَةٌ مِنْ عَظْمٍ A piece of a bone; meaning, a third, or a quarter, of the thigh, or arm, or skin, or shoulder; (M, L;) less than the half; as much as the third, or quarter. (IKtt.) قَصُودٌ A camel having compact marrow. (ISh, L.) See also قَصِيدٌ.

قَصِيدٌ and ↓ مَقْصُودٌ Aimed at, sought, desired, intended, or purposed. (L.) A2: Fat marrow: (K:) or thick and fat marrow, that breaks in pieces (يَتَقَصَّدُ) by reason of its fatness: a piece thereof is termed قَصِيدَةٌ: (L:) or the former word and ↓ قَصُودٌ signify marrow inferior to that which is fat (A, O, K) but superior to that which is lean: (A, O:) and قَصِيدَةٌ, a piece of marrow that has come forth from the bone. (L.) b2: and (L, K), or ذُو قَصِيدٍ, (L,) A bone containing marrow. (L, K.) b3: Dry, or tough, (يَاسِس,) fleshmeat; (Lth, S, L, K;) as also ↓ قَصْدٌ; and, as some say, fat fleshmeat. (L.) b4: A fat she-camel, (L, K,) plump and corpulent, (L,) and having marrow in her bones; as also قَصِيدَةٌ. (L, K.) b5: A fat camel's hump. (K.) A3: A staff; (L, K;) as also قَصِيدَة; (K;) or the latter has not been heard: (TA:) pl. قَصَائِدُ. (L.) A4: Poetry, or a poem, trimmed, pruned, or free from faults, well executed, (K,) and composed with premeditation; (TA;) as also قَصِيدَةٌ: (TA:) [but the latter is used as a subst.] b2: قَصِيدٌ, a gen. n., applied properly to poetry, and, by extension of the signification, to a single poem, for قَصِيدَةٌ; (IJ, L;). or it is pl. of قَصِيدَةٌ, like as سَفِينٌ is of سَفِينَةٌ; (S, L;) and so is قَصَائِدُ; (L;) [but properly, قَصِيدٌ is a coll. gen. n., and قَصِيدَةٌ is its n. un., and قَصَائِدُ is pl. of the latter;] Poetry, or a poem, [or an ode, (for it was always designed to be chanted or sung,)] of which the bipartition (شَطْر) of the verses is complete; (M, L, K;) [i. e., of which the hemistichs are complete, not curtailed; (see الرَّمَلُ;)] consisting of three verses or more; (Akh, M, L, K;) or of sixteen or more; (M, L, K;) for it is usual to call that which consists of three verses, or ten, or fifteen, قِطْعَةٌ, and what consists of more than fifteen the Arabs call قصيدة: (IJ, M, L:) or, as Akh has once said, what is of the metre called الطَّوِيل, and البَسِيط that is complete, and الكَامِل that is complete, and المَدِيد that is complete, by which he means the first species thereof, which is the most complete that is in use, and الوَافِر that is complete, by which, in like manner, he means the first species thereof, and الرَّجَز that is complete, and الخَفِيف that is complete, and [any ode, or] any poem that is sung by persons riding; but, he adds, we have not heard them sing what is of the metre called الخفيف: (M, L:) such poetry is thus termed because composed with purpose and consideration, and earnest endeavour to make it excellent; from قَصْدٌ as syn. with أَمٌّ: or because composed with care, and trimmed with excellent expressions and choice meanings, from قَصِيدٌ signifying “ thick and fat marrow; ” for the Arabs tropically apply to chaste, or eloquent, or excellent, language the epithet سَمِين, or “ fat: ” (L:) or because of its completeness, and the soundness of its measure. (M, L.) For the meanings of بَيْتُ القَصِيدَةِ, see بَيْتٌ; last sentence.

A5: See also قَصِدٌ.

قَصِيدَةٌ: see قَصِيدٌ throughout.

طريق قَاصِدٌ, (M, L,) and قَاصِدَةٌ, (A,) and ↓ قَصْدٌ, (A, Msb,) (tropical:) A direct, or right road, or way; a road, or way, having a direct, or right, tendency: (A, L:) an even, and a direct, or right, road, or way: (M, L:) an even road, or way. (Msb.) b2: سَهْمٌ قَاصِدٌ (tropical:) An arrow rightly directed towards the animal at which it is shot: pl. سِهَامٌ قَوَاصِدُ. (A.) b3: قَاصِدٌ Near. (S, K.) b4: سَفَرٌ قَاصِدٌ An easy, short journey: (TA:) [a moderately easy and short journey:] a journey not difficult, nor extremely far. (Ibn-'Arafeh.) b5: بَيْنَنَا وَبَيْنَ المَآءِ لَيْلَةٌ قَاصِدَةٌ (tropical:) Between us and the water is an easy night's journey (S, K) without fatigue or tardiness: (S:) pl. لَيَالٍ قَوَاصِدُ. (TA.) b6: مَآءٌ قَاصِدٌ Water of which the herbage, or pasture, is near. (IAar, TA, voce مُطْلِبٌ.) أَقصَدُ [A more, or most, direct road]. (S, voce أَرْشَدُ.) b2: عَلَيْكَ بِمَا هُوَ أَقْصَدُ وَأَقْسَطُ (tropical:) Keep thou to that which is most right and most just. (A.) أَقْصَادٌ: see قَصِدٌ.

مَقْصَدُ الكَلَامِ means the intended sense of the saying; the meaning thereof: (see مَعْنًى in art. عنى:) مَقْصَدٌ being an inf. n. used as in the sense of the pass. part. n. of its verb, i. e. in the sense of ↓ مَقْصُودٌ; like as is generally said of its syn. مَعْنًى, of which مَقْصُودٌ is one of the explanations: hence it has a pl. مَقَاصِدُ: in the CK in art. غزو it is erroneously written مَقْصِد, which is the n. of place and of time from قَصَدَ. b2: And in like manner مَقْصَدٌ signifies also A thing aimed at, intended, or purposed; an object of aim or pursuit: see 1: and ↓ مَقْصِدٌ, tropically used, has the same meaning.]

مَقْصِدٌ, with kesr to the ص, A place to, or towards, which one tends, repairs, or betakes himself; to which one directs his course; at which one aims; which one seeks, pursues, endeavours to reach, desires, or wishes for; [pl. مَقَاصِدُ.] Ex.

لَهُ مَقْصِدٌ مَعَيَّنٌ He has a specified place to which, or towards which, he tends, or repairs, &c. (Msb.) بَابُكَ مَقْصِدِى Thy door, or gate, is the place to which, or towards which, I tend, or repair, &c. (A.) b2: مَقَاصِدُ الطَّرُقِ [The right places to which roads tend]; i. q. مَرَاشِدُهَا. (S, L, K, art. رشد.) See also مَقْصَدٌ.

مُقْصَدٌ One who falls sick and quickly dies. (K.) مُقْصِدٌ [One who composes poems of the kind termed قَصَائِد: see 4: also,] and ↓ مُقَصِّدٌ, one who continues uninterruptedly, and prolongs, the composition of poems of the kind termed قصائد. (M, L.) مَقْصَدَةٌ [lit., A thing that causes people to repair to, or seek, or endeavour after, or desire, it]. b2: A woman great, and perfect, or complete, who pleases every one (K) that beholds her. (TA.) b3: Also, (or, as some write it, ↓ مُقَصَّدَةٌ, TA,) A woman inclining to shortness. (K.) مَقْصُودٌ: see قَصْدٌ, قَصِيدٌ, and مَقْصَدٌ.

مُقَصَّدٌ (tropical:) A man neither corpulent nor thin; as also ↓ مُقْتَصِدٌ and ↓ قَصْدٌ: (L, K:) or a man of moderate, or middle, stature; (ISh, L;) neither tall nor short, nor corpulent; (IAth, L;) as also قَصْدٌ: (ISh:) or a man &c. neither corpulent nor short. (Lth, L.) See مَقْصَدَةٌ.

مُقَصِّدٌ: see مُقْصِدٌ.

فُلَانٌ مُقْتَصِدٌ فِى النَّفَقَةِ (tropical:) Such a one acts in a moderate manner, in a manner between that of prodigality and that of parsimoniousness, in expense. (S, L.) See 1. And see مُقَصَّدٌ.

قتر

1 قَتَرَ, aor. ـِ (S, Msb, K) and قَتُرَ, (Msb, K,) inf. n. قَتْرٌ and قُتُورٌ; (TK;) and قَتِرَ, aor. ـَ (S, K;) It (roast meat, S, Msb, K, and a cookingpot, and burnt bone, and a perfume with which one fumigates, K, or aloes-wood, TA) exhaled its scent, smell, or odour; (S, Msb, K;) as also ↓ قتّر, inf. n. تَقْتِيرٌ. (K.) b2: قَتَرَتِ النَّارُ The fire smoked. (TA.) A2: قَتَرَ, aor. ـُ and قَتِرَ, inf. n. قَتْرٌ and قُتُورٌ, It (sustenance) was barely sufficient; (K;) as also ↓ أَقْتَرَ. (CK: but this latter is omitted in the TA; and in a MS. copy of the K I find in its place أقْتَرُ, as a syn. of قَاتِرٌ and قَتُورٌ.) [This signification is implied in the K, but not expressed, and I think it doubtful.] b2: قَتَرَ عَلَى عِيَالِهِ, aor. ـُ and قَتِرَ inf. n. قَتْرٌ and قُتُورٌ; (S, Msb;) and ↓ قتّر عَلَيْهِمْ, (S, Msb, K,) inf. n. تَقْتِيرٌ; (S, Msb;) and ↓ اقتر, (S, Msb, K,) inf. n. إِقْتَارٌ; (S, Msb;) He scanted his household, stinted them, or was niggardly or parsimonious towards them, in expenditure; (S, Msb, K;) like قَدَرَ: (S, art. قدر:) as though he took only the قُتَار [or scent] of a thing. (El-Basáïr.) وَلَمْ يَقْتُرُوا in the Kur, xxv. 67, signifies وَلَمْ يَقْتُرُوا عَمَّا يَجِبُ عَلَيْهِمْ مِنَ النَّفَقَةِ [Nor are sparing of what is incumbent on them, of expenditure]. (Fr.) You say also اللّٰهُ رِزْقَهُ ↓ أَقْتَرَ God made his means of subsistence strait, and scanty. (IAth.) And قُتِرَ عَلَيْهِ رِزْقُهُ His means of subsistence were scanted, or straitened, to him, like فُدِرَ; (S, art. قدر;) and رِزْقُهُ ↓ تَقَتَّرَ [signifies the same]. (TA in art. حرف, &c.) 2 قتّر, inf. n. تَقْتِيرٌ: see 1. b2: He excited, or raised, the scent termed قُتَار. (S.) b3: قتّر لِلْأَسَدِ He put for the lion some flesh-meat (S, K) in the pitfall, (S,) that he might perceive its scent. (S, K.) b4: قتّر لِلْوَحْشِ He (a hunter, TA) fumigated [himself or his clothes] with camels' dung, in order that the wild animals might not perceive his (the hunter's) smell, (K, TA,) and flee from him. (TA.) A2: قتّر عَلَى عِيَالِهِ: see 1.4 اقترت She (a woman) fumigated herself with aloes-wood. (S, K.) b2: اقتر النَّارَ He made the fire to smoke. (TA.) A2: اقتر على عِيَالِهِ: and اقتر اللّٰه رِزْقَهُ: see 1. b2: Also اقتر He was, or became, poor, needy, or indigent: (S, K:) or his property became small, though some of it yet remained to him. (TA.) A poet says, لَكُمْ قِبْصُهُ مِنْ بَيْنِ أَثْرَى وَأَقْتَرَا meaning أَتْرَى وَأَقْتَرَ مِنْ بَيْنِ مَنْ [Ye have its multitude of people, of those who have become wealthy and of those who have become poor]. (S.) [Cited voce ثَرَا. See another ex. in a verse cited in art. عى, conj. 4.]

A3: See also 8.5 تَقَتَّرَ see 1: A2: and see also 8.8 اقتتر, (Msb,) or اقتتر فِى قُتْرَةٍ, (A, L, TA,) in the K, فِيهَا ↓ أَفْتَرَ, but this is a mistake, (TA,) He concealed, or hid, himself in a قُتْرَة. (A, L, Msb, TA.) And لِلصَّيْدِ ↓ تقتّر He hid himself in a قُتْرَة to deceive the wild animals, or game. (TA.) قَتْرٌ What is barely sufficient, of sustenance; as also ↓ تَقْتِيرٌ: (K:) or what is barely sufficient to sustain life, of expenditure. (Lth.) قُتْرٌ: see قُتُرٌ.

A2: A side, quarter, tract, or region; (S, K;) a dial. form of قُطْرٌ; (S;) as also ↓ قُتُرٌ: (K:) either side of a man: (JK, L:) pl. أَقْتَارٌ. (TA.) قَتَرٌ and ↓ قَتَرَةٌ, (K,) or the latter, and the former is its pl., (S,) [or rather the former is a coll. gen. n., and the latter is the n. un.,] and ↓ قَتْرَةٌ, (K,) Dust; syn. غُبَارٌ, (S,) or غَبَرَهٌ: (K:) so in the Kur, lxxx. 41: (AO, S:) or the dust of an army: (Nh:) or dust-colour overspread with blackness: (T, TA:) or blackness and darkness. (Bd, Jel, lxxx. 41.) قُتُرٌ [and app. ↓ قُتْرٌ, like قُطُرٌ and قُطْرٌ,] Aloes-wood with which one fumigates. (TA.) A2: See also قُتْرٌ.

قَتْرَةٌ: see قَتَرٌ.

قُتْرَةٌ The نَامُوس [or lurking-place] of a hunter, (S, K,) which prevents his scent (قُتَار) [from being perceived by the wild animals]; (El-Basáïr:) the covert of a hunter, in which he hides himself from the game, or wild animals; such as a booth of reeds, and the like; (Msb;) a well, [or pit] which a hunter digs for himself that he may lie in wait therein: (AO:) pl. قُتَرٌ. (Msb, TA.) A2: (tropical:) Straitness of the means of subsistence. (TA.) قَتَرَةٌ: see قَتَرٌ.

قُتَارٌ The scent, smell, or odour, of roast meat; (El-Fárábee, S, Msb, K;) or of flesh-meat when roasted upon live coals: this is the sense in which the Arabs use it: (T, TA:) [or] it signifies also that of a cooking-pot: and of burnt bone: (K:) and of aloes-wood, (S,) or of بَخُور, (K,) i. e., aloes-wood which is burnt and with which one fumigates: (TA:) or the last odour of aloes-wood when one fumigates with it: (Fr, in the Kitáb el-Masádir:) or it has not this signification of the odour of aloes-wood, but the Arabs compare the liking of men in a time of dearth for the scent of roast meat to their liking for the odour of aloeswood: (T, TA:) or it signifies the smoke of cooked food: (Msb:) and the scent, or smell, of a man. (El-Basáïr.) b2: It is also sometimes applied by the Arabs to Fat: and flesh. (TA.) قَتُورٌ Barely sufficient sustenance; as also ↓ قَاتِرٌ, (K,) and ↓ أَفْتَرُ. (So in one copy of the K; but see 1.) [This signification is implied in the K, but not expressed; and I think it doubtful.] b2: [One who scants his household;] niggardly, or parsimonious [towards his household in expenditure]; (K;) as also, [though not in so strong a sense,] ↓ مُقْتِرٌ (TA) [and ↓ قَاتِرٌ].

قَاتِرٌ Flesh-meat exhaling its scent, smell, or odour [in roasting]: (S:) and having a scent by reason of its greasiness. (TA.) A2: See also قَتُورٌ, in two places.

أَقْتَرُ: see قَتُورٌ.

تَقْتِيرٌ: see قَتْرٌ, and 2.

مُقْتِرٌ A woman fumigating herself with aloeswood. (S.) A2: See also قَتُورٌ.

كِبَآءٌ مُقَتَّرٌ [A kind of aloes-wood made to exhale its odour]. (S.)