حف

1 حَفُّوهُ, (Ksh and Bd in xviii. 31,) or حَفُّوا حَوْلَهُ, (S, K,) or بِهِ, (Msb, and W p. 153, [and so in the present day, because syn. with احاطوا به and اطافوا به and استداروا به, &c.,]) but the verb is properly trans. by itself, (W ibid.,) aor. ـُ (S,) inf. n. حَفٌّ (S, TA) and حِفَافٌ; (TA [accord. to a meaning there assigned to it];) and ↓ حفّفوا and ↓ احتفّوا; all signify the same; (K, TA;) They went round about, circuited, compassed, or surrounded, it, or him. (S, Ksh, Bd, Msb, TA.) You say, حَفَّ القَوْمُ بِالبَيْتِ, [or rather حَوْلَ البَيْتِ,] The company of men went round about the House [called the House of God, i. e. the Kaabeh]. (Msb.) And it is said in a trad., فَيَحُفُّونَهُمْ بِأَجْنِحَتِهِمْ And they circuit round about them with their wings. (TA.) And in a prov., مَنْ حَفَّنَا أَوْ رَفَّنَا فَلْيَقْتَصِدْ, i. e. Whoso goes round about us, and minds, or manages, our affairs, (K, TA,) and treats us with honour; (TA;) or [in the K “ and ”] serves us, (S, K,) and guards us, defends us, or takes care of us, and regards us, or behaves towards us, with benevolence and solicitude; (S, TA;) or [in the K “ and ”] praises us; (A 'Obeyd, K, TA;) let him [act moderately, and] not exceed the due bounds, (A 'Obeyd, K, TA,) but speak truth. (A 'Obeyd, TA.) Hence the saying, (K,) وَلَا رَافٌّ ↓ مَا لَهُ حَافٌّ (S, K) [He has not any who goes round about him, and minds, or manages, his affairs, &c.]. And ذَهَبَ مَنْ كَانَ يَحُفُّهُ وَيَرُفُّهُ (S, K) [He went away, or has gone away, who used to go round about him, &c.; or] who used to give to him, and bring him corn or food: (TA:) [for] حَفَّهُ signifies also he gave to him. (Msb.) And هُوَ يَحُفُّ وَيَرُفُّ He stands and sits: and he acts as a sincere, or faithful, adviser, and with benevolence and solicitude. (As,) (TA.) [See also art. رف.] One says, of persons in want, حَفَّتْهُمُ الحَاجَةُ, (S, K,) aor. ـُ (S,) inf. n. حَفٌّ, (TA,) (tropical:) [Want beset, or encompassed, them; or has beset, &c.;] and ↓ هُمْ قَومٌ مَحْفُوفُونَ (tropical:) [They are persons beset, or encompassed, by want]. (S, K, TA.) b2: حَفَّهُ بِالشَّىْءِ, aor. ـُ (S, O, K,) He surrounded it, or him, with the thing; (K, TA;) as, for instance, a هَوْدَج with pieces of cloth; (S, O;) and so ↓ حفّفهُ, inf. n. تَحْفِيفٌ. (S.) It is said in the Kur [xviii. 31], حَفَفْنَاهُمَا بِنَخْلٍ We made them, namely, the two gardens, to be surrounded by palm-trees; (Ksh, Bd;) We made palm-trees to encompass their أَحِفَّة, (K,) i. e., their sides. (TA.) And you say, حَفَفْتُهُ بِهِمْ I surrounded it, or him, with them. (Ksh and Bd in xviii. 31, and TA.) And حُفَّتِ الجَنَّةُ بِالمَكَارِهِ (TA) a trad., meaning (assumed tropical:) Paradise is encompassed by things that one dislikes to do: these being likened to a wall, through which alone one can enter Paradise. (Gloss in a copy of the “ Jámi' es-Sagheer ” of Es-Suyootee.) A2: حَفَّ شَارِبَهُ, (S, Msb, K,) and رَأْسَهُ, (S, K,) and اللِّحْيَةَ, (M,) aor. ـِ (S,) or ـُ (M, IB, TA,) [the former contr. to rule, and disapproved by IB,] inf. n. حَفٌّ, (S, M, TA,) He cut, or clipped, (S, M, Msb, K,) his mustache, (S, Msb, K,) and the hair of his head, (S, K,) and the beard, (M,) much, or short, or to the utmost degree. (S, Msb, K.) b2: حَفَّتْ وَجْهَهَا (S, Mgh, Msb, K) مِنَ الشَّعَرِ, (S, K,) aor. ـُ (S, Msb,) inf. n. حَفٌّ (S, Msb, K) and حِفَافٌ; (S, K;) and ↓ اِحْتَفَّتْ; (S, K;) said of a woman; (S, Mgh, Msb, K;) She plucked out the hair of her face: (Mgh:) or she embellished her face by removing the hair thereof: (Msb:) or she scraped off the hair of her face (K, TA) with a razor: (TA:) and ↓ اِحْتَفَّتْ she ordered another to pluck out the hair of her face with two threads: (K, * TA:) so some say: and ↓ أَحَفَّتْ, inf. n. إِحْفَافٌ, signifies the same as احتفّت. (TA.) A3: حَفَّ رَأْسُهُ, aor. ـِ inf. n. حُفُوفٌ, His head remained long without ointment, (As, S, K,) and its hair was shaggy, matted, frouzy, or dusty: (TA:) and حَفَّتِ اللِّحْيَةُ, aor. and inf. n. as above, The beard was shaggy, matted, frouzy from long want of ointment, or dusty. (M, TA.) El-Kumeyt says, describing a wooden peg or stake, (S, L,) long neglected, (L,) وَأَشْعَثَ فِى الدَّارِ ذَا لِمَّةٍ

يُطِيلُ الحُفُوفَ فَلَا يَقْمَلُ [And a wooden peg or stake, in the dwelling, having a head of battered and pendent fibres, long neglected, but not lousy: the fibres being likened to hair; and (as is said in the TA in art. شعث, where this verse is cited, but with ذِي in the place of ذا,) the term اشعث being used to signify a wooden peg or stake because its head is bruised, or battered, and separated, so that the parts do not cohere]. (S, L.) b2: حَفَّتِ الثَّرِيدَةُ The ثريدة [or mess of crumbled bread moistened with broth] became dry in its upper part [by reason of paucity of broth], and cracked open in several places. (TA.) [See the part. n., حَافٌّ.] b3: [The inf. n.]

حُفُوفٌ signifies The being dry, without grease. (TA.) b4: And حَفَّ بَطْنُهُ His (a man's) belly became dry in consequence of his not having eaten greasy food nor flesh-meat. (TA.) b5: حَفَّتِ الأَرْضُ, (Msb, K,) aor. ـِ (Msb, TA,) inf. n. حُفُوفٌ, (TA,) The earth, or land, dried up: (TA:) or its plants, (Msb,) or its herbs, or leguminous plants, (K,) dried up, (Msb, K,) for want of water. (TA.) b6: حَفَّ سَمْعُهُ, (IAar, K,) inf. n. حُفُوفٌ, (IAar, TA,) (assumed tropical:) His hearing went away entirely. (IAar, K.) A4: حَفَّ, (S, K,) aor. ـِ (S,) inf. n. حَفِيفٌ, (S, K, KL,) He (a horse) made a sound, (S, K, KL,) such as is termed دَوِيّ [i. e. a confused and continued sound], (S,) with his fore and hind feet, (KL,) in his running, (S, K,) or in going along. (KL.) Said also of violent rain, It made a [pattering] sound. (As, TA.) and of a viper, It made a [rustling] sound with its skin: فَحَّ, inf. n. فَحِيحٌ, signifies “ it made a sound to proceed from its mouth: ” (Aboo-Kheyreh, K:) or حَفَّتْ, inf. n. as above, said of the female of the [kind of serpents called] أَسَاوِد, she made a [rustling] sound with her skin by rubbing one part thereof with another. (L.) And in like manner it is said of a tree, meaning It made a [rustling] sound (K, TA) by the blowing of the wind upon its branches. (TA.) And of a bird, meaning It made a [rustling] sound (K, TA) with its wing [or wings]: (TA:) and ↓ حَفْحَفَ signifies the same, said of the wing of a bird; and likewise, of a hyena, (IDrd, K,) as also خَفْخَفَ. (TA.) [Hence,] said of the [beetle called] جُعَل, [because of the humming that it makes in flying,] It flew. (TA.) 2 حَفَّّ see 1, in two places: b2: see also 4.

A2: Also حفّف, inf. n. تَحْفِيفٌ, (tropical:) He (a man, TA) was in a state of embarrassment, or distress, and his property became little: (K, TA:) from حَفَّتِ الأَرْضُ

“ the earth, or land, dried up. ” (TA.) حفّف وَجْهُهُ occurs in a trad. [app. in the same sense]. (TA.) 4 أَحَفَّتْ, said of a woman: see 1.

A2: أَحْفَفْتُ رَأْسِى I made my head to remain long without ointment [so that the hair became shaggy, matted, frouzy, or dusty]. (As, S, K.) b2: [Hence, app.,] أَحْفَفْتُهُ (tropical:) I spoke evil of him. (Ibn-'Abbád, K, TA.) A3: أَحْفَفْتُ الفَرَسَ I urged the horse (S, O, L, K) to run vehemently (O, K) so as to cause him to make a sound such as is termed دَوِيّ [i. e. a confused and continued sound] (S, O, L, K) in his running, [with his feel, (see حَفَّ,)] (S, L,) or in his belly: (O, K:) the former is probably the right meaning. (TA.) A4: أَحْفَفْتُ الثَّوْبَ I wove the piece of cloth with the حَفّ, i. e. the مِنْسَج; as also ↓ حَفَّفْتُهُ, (K, TA, [in the CK حَفَفْتُهُ,]) inf. n. تَحْفِيفٌ. (TA.) 8 احتفّوا: see 1, first sentence. b2: احتفّ بِهِ He, or it, became encompassed, or surrounded, by it: and hence, became in the midst of it. (Har p. 445.) A2: اِحْتَفَّتْ, said of a woman: see 1, in two places. b2: احتفّ النَّبْتَ He cut the herbage; syn. جَزَّهُ: (so in some copies of the K, and in the TK:) or حَزَرَهُ [he computed by conjecture its quantity]: (so in other copies of the K, and in the TA:) mentioned by Sgh: in some copies of the K, حزّزه [he jagged it]: in one, جزره, which is a mistake. (TA.) b3: اِحْتَفَّتِ الإِبِلُ الكَلَأَ The camels ate the herbage: or obtained some of it. (TA.) b4: And احتفّ He ate up entirely what was in the cooking pot: like as اشتفّ signifies “ he drank up entirely ” what was in the vessel. (S.) 10 استحفّ أَمْوَالَهُمْ He took the whole of their possessions (K, TA) in an incursion into the territory of an enemy. (TA.) R. Q. 1 حَفْحَفَ: see 1, last sentence but one.

A2: Also (tropical:) He (a man, TA) was, or became, straitened in his means of subsistence. (IAar, K, TA.) حَفٌّ: see حَفَّةٌ, in three places. b2: [It is said, accord. to the KL, to signify also What is called in Persian زين كوهه, app. meaning a saddlebow: but this signification, if correct, is probably post-classical.]

A2: Also, and ↓ حَفَفٌ and ↓ حِفَافٌ, A time, or season: (L:) or i. q. أَثَرٌ [a track, &c.]. (K.) You say, جَآءَ عَلَى حَفِّ ذٰلِكَ, and ↓ حَفَفِهِ, and ↓ حِفَافِهِ, (L, K,) He, or it, came in the time, or season, of that: (L:) or the meaning is عَلَى

أَثَرِهِ [lit. in the track thereof; and hence, after, or near after, that]. (K.) A3: فُلَانٌ حَفٌّ بِنَفْسِهِ Such a one is busied with, or anxious about, himself. (TA.) حَفَّةٌ i. q. مِنْوَالٌ; i. e. The web-beam of a loom; the wooden thing [or roller] upon which the weaver winds the web, or piece of cloth [as it is woven]: ↓ حَفٌّ signifying the مِنْسَج [which generally means the weaver's loom; but explained in the TK as meaning here the stay of a weaver's loom; in the KL, said to be what is called in Persian كار چوب, but this is the حَفَّة, to which the same explanation is assigned in the KL]: (S, K: *) so accord. to As: [for] Aboo-Sa'eed [i. e. As] says, the حَفَّة is the مِنْوَال; and it should not be called the ↓ حَفّ; for the حَفّ is the مِنْسَج: (S, O:) [the former is also applied to the yarnbeam, upon which the yarn is rolled: see نِيرٌ:] in the L, it is said that the حَفَّة of the weaver is the wide piece of wood with which he arranges the woof between [the threads of] the warp: or, as some say, the three canes: and some say that it is ↓ حِفَّةٌ, with kesr: and it is said to be the thing with which the weaver strikes, like a sword: and the ↓ حَفّ is the cane that comes and goes [or goes to and fro; app. meaning the shuttle]: Az says, thus it is with the Arabs: and its pl. [the pl. of حَفٌّ] is حُفُوفٌ. (TA.) One says, مَا أَنْتَ بِحَفَّةٍ

وَلَا نِيرَةٍ [Thou art neither a حفَة nor a نيرَة]; the نيرة being the transverse piece of wood: alluding to him who neither profits nor harms; meaning that he is good for nothing. (TA.) [See also a similar saying voce نِيرٌ.]

A2: Also What camels have eaten, or obtained, (اِحْتَفَّتْ,) of herbage. (TA.) b2: See also حَفَفٌ.

حِفَّةٌ: see حَفَّةٌ.

حَفَفٌ The verge of an event, or affair. (K, * TA.) You say, هُوَ عَلَى حَفَفِ أَمْرٍ He is on the verge of an event, or affair. (TA.) b2: See also حَفٌّ, in two places. b3: Also, (As, S, K,) and ↓ حُفُوفٌ, (K,) (tropical:) An evil state, or condition, of life; and paucity of property; (As, S, K, TA;) as though one were placed aloof (فى حَفَفٍ, i. e. جَانِبٍ,) from the means of subsistence: (Er-Rá- ghib, TA:) or the former signifies straitness of the means of subsistence; (IDrd, TA;) and so ↓ latter: (TA:) or the former, a [bare] sufficiency of the means of subsistence: (Lh, TA:) or a state in which the family, or household, is proportionate to the provisions: (Th, TA:) it is coupled with ضَعَفٌ: and is said to signify straitness; the latter signifying “ paucity of food with numerousness of the eaters thereof; ” or, as some say, “food proportionate to the household: ” (TA:) or the former signifies a state in which the eaters are proportionate to the property; and the latter, “ a state in which the eaters are more than proportionate to the property: ” (Abu-l-'Abbás, TA:) or the former, want; and the latter, “paucity [of property]: ” (IAar, TA:) or both signify the same. (TA.) One says, مَا رُئِىَ عَلَيْهِمْ حَفَفٌ وَلَا ضَفَفٌ There was not seen upon them a trace of want. (S.) And أَصَابَهُمْ مِنَ العَيْشِ حَفَفٌ and ضَفَفٌ and قَشَفٌ, Straitness of the means of subsistence befell them. (As, TA.) And مَا عِنْدَ فُلَانِ إِلَّا حَفَفٌ مِنَ المَتَاعِ There is not with such a one aught save a scanty supply of the necessaries of life. (TA.) And مِنْ مَالٍ ↓ هٰذِهِ حَفَّةٌ or مَتَاعٍ, This is a scanty supply of the necessaries of life, not exceeding the wants of its people, or owners. (TA.) حِفَافٌ A side (S, K) of a thing; حِفَافَا شَىْءٍ

signifying the two sides of a thing: (S:) pl. أَحفَّةٌ. (K.) b2: A border of hair remaining around the head of one who has become bald: (S, K: *) pl. as above. (S, K.) Dhu-r-Rummeh says, (S, TA,) describing bowls [of food], (TA,) لَهُنَّ أِذَا أَصْبَحْنَ مِنْهُمْ أَحِفَّةٌ وَحِينَ يَرَوْنَ اللَّيْلَ أَقْبَلَ جَائِيَا meaning They, i. e. the bowls, have a party of them surrounding them [when they are set in the beginning of the day, and when they see the night, that it has advanced, coming on]. (S, TA.) and you say, قَوْمُهُ أَحِفَّةٌ بِهِ His people are surrounding him. (TA.) b3: حِفَافُ الرَّمْلِ The place where the sand ends: pl. as above. (TA.) b4: كَانَ الطَّعَامُ حِفَافَ مَا أَكَلُوا The food was proportionate to what they ate. (TA.) b5: See also حَفٌّ, in two places.

حُفُوفٌ an inf. n. [See حَفَّ رَأْسُهُ, &c.]. b2: See also حَفَفٌ, in two places.

حَفِيفٌ The دَوِيّ [or confused and continued sound] (S, O, K) [of the feet] of a horse in running, (S,) or of the belly of a horse in running vehemently: (O, K:) the former is probably the right meaning: (TA: [see 1 and 4:]) the sound of the feet of camels when going a vehement pace: (TA:) the [pattering] sound of violent rain: (As, TA:) the [rustling] sound of the skin of a serpent, (L, K,) caused by rubbing one part thereof with another: (L:) the [rustling] sound of the wing [or wings] of a bird: (S, TA:) the [rustling] sound of a tree agitated by the wind: the [rustling, or murmuring,] sound of the wind, in, or upon, anything by [or through] which it passes: a plaintive sound, or moaning: the [murmuring, or quivering,] sound of the flaming, or blazing, of fire; and the like: (TA:) the [rushing] sound of a stone thrown by a مَنْجَنِيق: the [whizzing] sound of a penetrating or transpiercing arrow [app. in its passage through the air: see a verse cited voce ذِلَّةٌ]: (TA:) the humming, or buzzing, (دَوِيّ,) of bees. (S and K, in art. دوي.) The saying, cited by IAar, أَبْلِغْ أَبَا قَيْسٍ حَفِيفَ الأَثْأَبَهْ is explained by him as meaning [Tell thou Aboo-Keys] that he is weak in intellect; as though he were the حفيف of the tree called أَثْأَبَة when it is agitated by the wind: some say that it means [tell thou Aboo-Keys that] I will threaten him and agitate him like as the wind agitates this tree; but ISd says that this is nought. (TA.) A2: Dry herbage; as also جَفِيفٌ. (TA.) حُفَافَةٌ Hair plucked out: or what has fallen of hair plucked out. (TA.) b2: Remains of straw, and of [the trefoil, or dry trefoil, called] قَتّ. (Ibn-'Abbád, K.) حَفْحَفَةٌ [inf. n. of حَفْحَفَ]. b2: See فَهَرَ.

حَفَّانٌ A full vessel: (K:) or a vessel nearly filled to [the top of] each side: (TA:) or a vessel of which the contents, measured therein, reach to [the top of] each side. (S, K.) A2: The young ones of an ostrich; male and female: (S, K:) or, accord. to ISd, females only: (MF, TA:) n. un. with ة. (S, K.) b2: The feathers, or plumage, of the ostrich. (TA.) b3: The young ones of camels: (TA:) sometimes these are thus termed: (S in art. حفن:) [app. as being likened to those of the ostrich:] or such camels as are under [i. e. younger than] those termed حِقَاق: (TA:) n. un., applied to a male and a female, as above. (S in art. حفن.) b4: Servants: (S, K:) as though likened to the young ones of the ostrich. (TA.) حَفٌّ Going round about, circuiting, compassing, or surrounding. (S, Msb, K.) It is said in the Kur [xxxix. last verse], وَتَرَي المَلَائِكَةَ حَافِّينَ مِنْ حَوْلِ العَرْشِ (Zj, S, K *) And thou shalt see the angels surrounding the عرش: (Zj, TA:) or surrounding the sides thereof: (Sgh, K:) or going round about on either side thereof. (Er-Rághib, TA.) b2: مَا لَهُ حَافٌّ وَلَا رَافٌّ: see 1.

A2: سَوِيقٌ حَافٌّ [Meal of parched barley] not moistened with water or with clarified butter or the like. (Lth, K.) [خُبْزٌ حَافٌّ, in the present day, means Dry bread; i. e. bread without anything savoury.] And هُوَحَافُّ المَطْعَم He is one whose food is dry. (TA.) A3: See also حَافٌ, in art. حوف.

مَحْفُوفٌ [Encompassed, or surrounded]. Yousay, هُوَ مَحْفُوفٌ بِخَدَمِهِ [He is encompassed, or surrounded, by his servants]. (TA.) b2: هُمْ قَوْمٌ مَحْفُوفُونَ: see 1.

مِحَفَّةٌ, with kesr; (S, Sgh, Msb, K;) in the “ Meshárik ” of 'Iyád said to be [مَحَفَّةٌ,] with fet-h, (MF,) A vehicle of the kind used for women, like the هَوْدَج, (S, Msb, K,) except that it has no قُبَّة [or dome-like, or tent-like, top], (S, K,) which the هودج has: (S:) or a camel's saddle (رَحْل) surrounded (يُحَفُّ [with pieces of cloth (see 1) upon a wooden frame]), upon which a woman rides: accord. to IDrd, so called because the [frame of] wood [with the pieces of cloth attached thereto] surrounds on all sides the sitter upon it. (TA.) هَوْدَجٌ مُحَفَّفٌ بِدِيبَاجٍ [A هودج hung round with silk brocade]. (TA.)

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1 قَصَّهُ, (S, M, A, Msb, K,) aor. ـُ inf. n. قَصٌّ, (M, Msb,) He cut it; (S, Msb;) or he clipped it, or shore it, or cut off from it; (A, K;) namely, hair, (S, M, A, K,) and wool, (M,) and plumage, (A,) and a nail of a finger or toe; (M, K;) with the مِقَصّ, q. v.: (A, K:) as also ↓ قصّصهُ, (M, A,) and, by permutation, قَصَّاهُ: (M:) or these two forms have an intensive signification: or you say, الظُّفْرَ وَنَحْوَهُ ↓ قَصَّيْتُ, meaning, I pared the nail and the like. (Msb.) b2: Also, He (a weaver) cut off from it, namely, a garment, or piece of cloth, its unwoven end, or extremity, consisting of warp without woof. (M.) b3: And He cut off the extremities of his ears. (IAar, M.) قُصِّيهِ occurs in a trad., as meaning, Take thou from the extremities of his ears. (TA.) [But this may be from the root قصو, q. v.] b4: And [hence,] قَصَّ اللّٰهُ خَطَايَاهُ (assumed tropical:) God diminished, or took or deducted from, [the account of] his sins. (TA, from a trad.) A2: قَصَّ أَثَرَهُ, (S, M, A, Msb, K,) aor. ـُ (M, TA,) inf. n. قَصَصٌ, (S, M, A, O, L, K,) in [some of] the copies of the K قَصِيصٌ, but the former is the right, (TA,) and قَصٌّ, (T, M, K,) He followed, or followed after, his track, or footsteps, in pursuit; endeavoured to trace him, or track him; (S, M, A, Msb, K, &c.;) or he did so by degrees: (TA:) or by night: or at any time: (M, TA:) which last is the correct explanation: (TA:) and قَصَّهُ signifies the same, (A, TA,) and so اثره ↓ اقتصّ, (S, K,) and اثره ↓ تقصّص: (S, M, K:) and قَسَّ is a dial. form of the same. (TA.) You say, خَرَجَ فُلَانٌ قَصَصًا فِى أَثَرِ فُلَانٍ Such a one went forth following, or following after, the footsteps of such a one, in pursuit. (TA.) And it is said in the Kur, [xviii. 63,] (S,) فَارْتَدَّا عَلَى آثَارِهِمَا قَصَصًا (S, K) And they both returned by the way by which they had come, retracing their footsteps. (K, TA.) b2: [And hence,] قَصَّ عَلَيْهِ الخَبَرَ, (S, M, Msb, * K, *) and الحَدِيثَ, and الرُّؤْيَا, (A,) aor. ـُ (M, TA,) inf. n. قَصَصٌ, (M, TA,) or this is a subst. put in the place of the inf. n. so that it has become predominant over it, (S,) and قَصٌّ, (M, TA,) or the latter only is the inf. n., and the former is [only] a subst., (Msb,) He related to him the piece of news, or information, (S, M, Msb,) and the tradition, or story, and the dream, (A,) in its proper manner (عَلَى وَجْهِهِ): (S, Msb:) or he made it known [to him]: (K:) and الحَدِيثَ ↓ اقتصّ he related the tradition, or story, in its proper manner (عَلَى وَجْهِهِ); (S, K, TA;) as though he followed its traces, in pursuit, and related it accordingly: (TA:) [i. e., he pursued the course of the tradition, or story:] and الخَبَرَ ↓ تقصّص he pursued, or sought after, the particulars of the news, or information, gradually, and deliberately. (M.) قَصَّ is also said to signify He recited, or delivered, a [discourse such as is termed] خُطْبَة. (TA.) And it is said in the Kur, [xii. 3,] نَحْنُ نَقُصُّ عَلَيْكَ أَحْسَنَ القَصَصِ We explain unto thee with the best explanation: (K, TA:) or, as some say, قَصٌّ is the inf. n. of the verb used in this sense, and قَصَصٌ is a subst. [syn. with قِصَّةٌ, q. v.]. (TA.) And in a trad. respecting the Children of Israel it is said, لَمَّا قَصُّوا هَلَكُوا: or لَمَّا هَلَكُوا قَصُّوا: accord. to different relations: meaning, When they relied upon words, and neglected works, they perished: or when they perished, by neglecting works, they inclined to, and relied upon, stories. (TA.) A3: قَصَّهُ المَوْتُ, and قَصَّهُ عَلَى المَوْتِ, or مِنَ المَوْتِ: see 4.2 قصّصهُ and قَصَّاهُ: see I, first signification.

A2: قصّص, (S,) inf. n. تَقْصِيصٌ, (A, K,) He plastered, or built, (TA,) a house, (S, K, TA,) and a tomb, which it is forbidden to do, (A, TA,) with gypsum; (TA;) syn. جَصَّصَ: (S, K:) of the dial. of El-Hijáz. (TA, art. جص.) 3 قاصّهُ, (Msb,) inf. n. مُقَاصَّةٌ (A, Mgh, Msb) and قِصَاصٌ, (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K,) [which latter is the more common,] He (the relation of a slain man, A, Mgh, TA, or one who has been wounded, Mgh, [or mutilated,]) retaliated upon him by slaying him, or wounding him, (S, * Mgh, Msb, K,) or mutilating him, (S, * Msb, K, *) so as to make him quit, or even, with him. (Mgh.) See also 8. b2: Hence, (A, Mgh,) (tropical:) He made him quit, or even, with himself: used in a general way. (Mgh.) You say, قاصّ صَاحِبَهُ, (S, Mgh, Msb, * K,) inf. ns. as above, (Msb,) (tropical:) He made his fellow quit, or even, with him, (Mgh,) in a reckoning, (S, Mgh, K,) or other thing, (S, K,) by withholding from him the like of what the latter owed to him; (Mgh;) he made a debt which his fellow owed him to be as a requital of a like debt which he owed his fellow: [but Fei adds,] this is taken from إِقْتِصَاصُ الأَثَرِ: and hence the former signification, relating to retaliation of slaughter and wounding and mutilation, which, however, is the predominant signification. (Msb.) You say also, قَاصَصْتُهُ بِمَا كَانَ لِى قَبْلَهُ, [or, more probably, قِبَلَهُ, or perhaps عَلَيْهِ,] (tropical:) I withheld from him the like of what he owed me. (A, TA.) ISd says, (TA,) The phrase قُوصَّ زَيْدٌ مَا عَلَيْهِ has been mentioned; and means, in my opinion, (assumed tropical:) Zeyd was reckoned with for what he owed: though made trans. without a particle, as implying the meaning of أُغْرِمَ and the like. (M, TA.) 4 اقصّهُ, inf. n. إِقْصَاصٌ, He retaliated for him; (M;) as also ↓ اقتصّهُ; (A; [so in a copy of that work; but I think it is a mistake for اقصّهُ, or for اقتصّ لَهُ, q. v.]) or اقتصّ مِنْهُ. (TA [but this seems to be a mistake for اقتصّ لَهُ.]) You say, اقصّ فُلَانًا مِنْ فُلَانٍ He (a governor, or prince,) retaliated for such a one upon such a one, (S, K,) by wounding the latter like as he had wounded the former, (S, Msb, K,) or by slaying the latter for the slaughter of the former; (S, K;) and the like. (TA.) b2: اقصّ الرَّجُلُ مِنُ نَفْسِهِ The man gave power, or authority, to retaliate upon himself, (K, TA,) by doing to him the like of that which he had done, whether it be slaughter or mutilation or beating or wounding. (TA.) [Whence the saying,] أَقْصَصْتُكَ الجُرْحَةَ (tropical:) I authorize thee to adduce anything whereby to invalidate the testimony. (A, * TA, art. جرح.) A2: ضَرَبَهُ حَتَّى أَقَصَّهُ مِنَ المَوْتِ, (S, K,) and عَلَى المَوْتِ ↓ قَصَّهُ, (K,) He beat him until he made him to be near to death: (S, K:) and Fr used to say, ضربه حتّى

أَقَصَّهُ المَوْتَ [meaning as above]. (S.) You say [also], أَقْصَصْتُهُ عَلَى المَوْتِ [I made him to be near to death]. (M.) And a poet says, فَقَدْ أَقْصَصْتَ أُمَّكَ بِالْهُزَالِ meaning, Thou hast made thy mother to be near to death. (TA.) b2: Fr also said, (S,) المَوْتُ ↓ قَصَّهُ and أَقَصَّهُ المَوْتُ [in the L and TA قَصَّهُ مِنَ المَوْتِ and أَقَصَّهُ مِنْهُ, which seems to be a mistranscription,] both signifying Death became near to him: (S, K:) or he became at the point of death, and then escaped; (TA;) and so أَقَصَّتْهُ شَعُوبُ: (M:) and أَقَصَّ على المَوْتِ he became at the point of death. (M.) 5 تقصّص and تَقَصَّى: see 8.

A2: تقصّص أَثَرَهُ: see قَصَّ اثره. b2: تقصّص الخَبَرَ: see قَصَّ عَلَيْهِ الخَبَرَ. b3: تقصّص كَلَامَهُ He preserved in his memory his speech, or discourse. (Az, M, K.) 6 تقاصّوا They made themselves quits, or even, one with another, by retaliation, (M, TA,) slaying for slaying, or wounding for wounding. (M.) A poet says, فَرُمْنَا القِصَاصَ وَكَانَ التَّقَاص صُ حُكْمًا وَعَدْلًا عَلَى الْمُسْلِمِينَا [And we sought retaliation so as to make a party quit, or even, with us; for people's making themselves quits, or even, one with another, by retaliation, is a statute, and an act of justice, appointed to the Muslims]: in which التَّقَاصُّ is an instance of a deviation from a general rule, as it presents two quiescent letters together in poetry; wherefore some relate it differently, saying, القِصَاصُ: and there is no other instance of the kind excepting one verse cited by Akh: وَلَوْلَا خِدَاشٌ أَخَدْتُ دَوَاب بَ سَعْدٍ وَلَمْ أَعْطِهِ مَا عَلَيْهَا but Aboo-Is-hák thinks, that, if this verse be genuine, the right reading is دَوَابِبَ سَعْدٍ, as the making the duplication of a letter distinct is allowable in poetry; or رَوَاحِلَ سَعْدٍ. (M, TA.) This is the primary signification of the verb. (TA.) b2: and hence, (A, * Mgh, * TA,) [or, accord. to Fei, the reverse is the case, (see 3,)] (tropical:) They made themselves quits, or even, one with another, in a reckoning, (S, A, Mgh, K,) or other thing (S, A, K) one withholding from another the like of what the latter owed him. (Mgh.) 8 اقتصّ It (hair [or the like]) was, or became, cut, or clipped, or shorn, (M, TA,) with the مِقَصّ; (TA;) as also ↓ تقصّص and تَقَصَّى. (M, TA.) A2: اقتصّ أَثَرَهُ: see قَصَّ اثره. b2: اقتصّ الحَدِيثَ: see قَصَّ عَلَيْهِ الخَبَرَ.

A3: He retaliated, slaying for slaying, or wounding for wounding. (M.) Yousay, اقتصّ لِفُلَانٍ مِنْ فُلَانٍ (S, A, K) He retaliated for such a one upon such a one, by wounding the latter like as he had wounded the former, or by slaying the latter for the slaughter of the former, (S, K, TA,) and the like; (TA;) as also مِنْهُ ↓ أَقَصَّهُ. (S, K.) [See the latter verb, first signification.] And ↓ أَفَصَّهُ, inf. n. إِقْصَاصٌ, signifies [also] He (the Sultán) slew him in retaliation. (Msb.) b2: اِقْتِصَاصٌ, as a subst., [i. e., having no verb corresponding to the signification here following, though I do not see how this can be asserted, for one may certainly say اُقْتُصَّ مِنْهُ,] also signifies The being done to like as one has done, whether it be slaughter or mutilation or beating or wounding. (TA.) b3: See also 10.10 استقصّ He sought, or demanded, retaliation, i. e., slaying for slaying, or wounding for wounding. (M.) b2: استقصّهُ He asked of him to retaliate for him: (S, A, Msb, K:) and ↓ اقتصّهُ signifies the same accord. to the K; but the author has been misled into saying this by misunderstanding the following passage in the O; تقصّص اثره مثل قَصَّهُ واقتصّهُ واستقصّهُ سَأَلَهُ أَنْ يُقِصَّهُ, in which واقتصّه terminates a clause. (TA.) قَصٌّ (M, K) and ↓ قَصَصٌ (M, TA) What is cut, or clipped, or shorn, of the wool of a sheep. (M, K, TA.) See also قُصَاصَةٌ.

A2: Also, both words, (S, M, A, K,) and ↓ قَصْقَصٌ (M, TA) The breast (M, A, K) of anything: (M:) or the head thereof, (S, K,) called in Persian سر سينه [i. e.

سَرْسِينَهْ, applied to the pit at the head of the breast]; and such is the قَصَص of the sheep or goat, &c.: (S:) or the middle thereof: (M, K:) or the bone thereof, (M, K,) of a man or other animal; (TA;) [i. e. the sternum;] the soft bone into which are set the cartilaginous ends of the [seven upper pairs of the] ribs, in the middle of the breast: (Lth, TA:) pl. قِصَاصٌ [a reg. pl. of the first]. (K.) Hence the saying, هُوَ أَلْزَمُ لَكَ مِنْ شُعَيْرَاتِ قَصِّكَ, (S,) or هُوَ أَلْزَمُ بِكَ مِنْ شَعَرَاتِ قَصِّكَ, and ↓ قَصَصِكَ, (M, TA,) [He is more closely adherent to thee than the little hairs, or the hairs, of thy breast, &c.:] because as often as they are cut they grow [afresh]: (As, TA:) meaning, he will not separate himself from thee, nor canst thou cast him from thee: applied to him who denies his relation: and also to him who denies a due that is incumbent on him. (Sgh, TA.) b2: Also, the same three words, (the first and ↓ second accord. to the TA, and the ↓ third accord. to the K) and ↓ قَصِيصٌ, (K,) The place of growth of the hair of the breast. (K, TA.) A3: قَصٌّ, (JK, and so in one place in a copy of the M, and in the TA,) or ↓ قِصٌّ, (so in one place in a copy of the M) and ↓ قَصَّةٌ and ↓ قِصَّةٌ, (M,) i. q. جَصٌّ, (JK,) or جِصٌّ, (M,) [i. e. Gypsum;] قَصَّةٌ is syn. with جصّ (S, Msb) in the dial. of El-Hijáz: (S:) or ↓ قَصَّةٌ and ↓ قِصَّةٌ, (K,) the latter on the authority of IDrd, (TA,) and said by Aboo-Bekr to be with kesr, but by others said to be with fet-h, (Seer, TA,) are syn. with جَصَّةٌ [and جِصَّةٌ, ns. un. of جَصٌّ and جِصٌّ]: (K:) or signify stones of جصّ [or gypsum]: (TA:) pl. قِصَاصٌ [reg. as pl. of قَصَّةٌ]: (K:) and ↓ قَصَّاصٌ is a dial. form of قَصٌّ [app. as syn. with جَصٌّ and جِصٌّ], a subst., like جَيَّارٌ [which is nearly, if not exactly, syn. with جِيرٌ and جَِصٌّ]. (M, L.) In a trad. of Zeyneb, occurs this expression: عَلَى مَلْحُودَةٍ ↓ يَاقَصَّةً [O gypsum upon buried corpses!] by which she likens the bodies of the persons addressed to tombs made of جصّ, and their souls to the corpses contained in the tombs. (TA.) قِصٌّ: see قَصٌّ, last signification; the latter in three places.

قَصَّةٌ: see قَصٌّ, last signification; the latter in three places.

قُصَّةٌ The hair over the forehead; syn. نَاصِيَةٌ, (M, A,) or شَعَرُ النَّاصِيَةِ; (S, K;) accord. to some, (TA,) of a horse: (M, TA:) or what comes forward, thereof, over the face: (M, TA:) and the ناصية of a woman: (M:) or the طُرَّة, i. e., the ناصية, [or front hair of the head,] which is cut over (lit. over against, حِذَآءَ,) the forehead: (Mgh, Msb:) or what a woman makes, in the fore part of her head, by cutting the hair of that part, excepting over her temples: (TA:) or it signifies, as some say, (Mgh,) or signifies also, (M, A,) any lock of hair: (M, A, Mgh:) pl. قُصَصٌ (M, Msb, K) and قِصَاصٌ. (M, K) See also قُصَاصٌ.

قِصَّةٌ A story; a narrative: (S, M, TA:) and what is written: (S, K:) and an affair; or a case: (S, Msb, K:) and ↓ قَصَصٌ is syn. therewith, in the first of the above senses; (S, * M, A, * Msb, * TA;) and signifies a story, or narrative, related: (M, TA:) and ↓ قَصِيصَةٌ also is syn. with قِصَّةٌ [in the first of the above senses], (A, K,) and so is ↓ قَصِيصٌ: (A:) the pl. of قِصَّةٌ is قِصَصٌ, (S, Msb, K,) and أَقَا صِيصُ is a pl. pl.: (A, * TA:) and the pl. of ↓ قَصِيصَةٌ is قَصَائِصُ. (A, * TA.) Yousay, لَهُ قِصَّةٌ عَجِيبَةٌ and قَصَصٌ &c. [He has, or to him, or it, relates, a wonderful story]. (A.) And فِى رَأْسِهِ قِصَّةٌ (tropical:) In his head is a speech; or the like. (TA.) And مَا قِصَّتُكَ What is thine affair? or thy case? (Msb.) And رَفَعَ قِصَّةً إِلَى

السُّلْطَانِ [He referred an affair, or a case, to the Sultán]. (A.) A2: See also قَصٌّ, last signification.

قَصَصٌ: see قَصٌّ, first signification.

A2: See also قِصَّةٌ.

A3: See also قصٌّ, again, second and third significations.

قَصَاصٌ: see قُصَاص.

قُصَاصُ الشَّعَرِ and ↓ قِصَاصُهُ and ↓ قَصَاصُهُ, (S, M, A, Mgh, K,) of which three forms the first is the most common, (S,) The part where the growth of the hair terminates, (As, S, M, A, * Mgh, K,) in the fore part and the hind part (As, S, M) of the head; (M;) or in the fore part or the hind part; (K;) or in the fore part of the head and around it; (A;) or in the fore part of the head or around it; (Mgh;) or in the middle of the head: (TA:) or the extremity of the back of the neck: (M, TA:) or the whole circuit [of the hair], behind and before and around; and one says also الشَّعَرِ ↓ قُصَاصَةُ: (TA:) and الشَّعَرِ ↓ مَقَصُّ, of which the pl. is مَقَاصُّ, signifies the same as قُصَاصُهُ; (As, TA;) or the part where it is taken with the scissors: (TA:) القُصَاصُ also signifies the place along which the scissors run in the middle of the head: (M, K:) or the extremity of the back of the neck: (K:) or the part where the growth of the hair terminates (K, TA) in the fore part of the head; or in the fore part and the hind part thereof; as before explained. (TA.) b2: You say also, عَضَّ بِقُصَاصِ كَفَّيهْهِ, meaning, (tropical:) He bit the extremities of his two hands, where they meet together. (A, TA.) قِصَاصٌ: see قُصَاص.

A2: Also, (S, M, Msb, K,) and ↓ قَصَاصَآءُ, (so in a copy of the M, and in the CK, and in a MS copy of the K [in the TA ↓ قُصَاصَآءُ, which I think a mistake,]) and ↓ قِصَاصَآءُ, (M, K,) [the first an inf. n. of 3, q. v.,] i. q. قَوَدٌ; (S, K;) Retaliation, by slaying for slaying, and wounding for wounding, (M, Msb, TA,) and mutilating for mutilating. (Msb.) قَصِيصٌ: see مَقْصُوصٌ: A2: and قِصَّةٌ: A3: and قَصٌّ, third signification.

قُصَاصَةٌ Cuttings, or what is cut off (M, A) with the مِقَصّ, (A,) of hair, (Lh, M, A,) and of the unwoven end, or extremity, of a garment, or piece of cloth. (M.) b2: See also قُصَاص.

قَصِيصَةٌ A camel, (M, K,) or horse, or the like, (M,) with which one follows, or follows after, (M, K,) footsteps, (M,) or the footsteps of travellingcamels: (K:) pl. قَصَائِصُ. (Ibn-'Abbád, TA.) A2: See also قِصَّةٌ, in two places.

قَصَاصَآءُ, or قُصَاصَآءُ, and قِصَاصَآءُ: see قِصَاصٌ.

قَصَّاصٌ: see قَصٌّ, last signification.

قَصْقَصٌ: see قَصٌّ, second and third significations.

قَاصٌّ A relater of a story or narrative (K, TA) in its proper course; as though he followed its meanings and expressions; or of stories, or narratives; as some say, because he pursues story after story: (TA:) pl. قُصَّاصٌ. (A, TA.) b2: And One who recites, or delivers, the kind of discourse termed خُطْبَة. (TA.) أَقَاصِيصُ: see قِصَّةُ.

مَقَصُّ الشَّعَرِ: see قُصَاص.

مِقَصٌّ A مِقْرَاض [or single blade of scissors or shears], (S, A, K,) with which one cuts, or clips, or shears; (TA;) one of the things whereof a pair is called مِقَصَّانِ: (S, K:) or مِقَصَّانِ signifies the thing with which one cuts hair [&c.]; and has no sing., accord. to the lexicologists, though Sb assigns to it a sing.: (M:) some say, that the use of the sing. is a mistake of the vulgar: (MF:) the pl. is مَقَاصُّ. (A, TA.) مُقَصَّصٌ: see مَقْصُوصٌ, in two places.

A2: A tomb plastered with قَصّ [or gypsum]: and in like manner مُقَصَّصَةٌ applied to a city (مَدِينَة). (M, TA.) مَقْصُوصٌ Cut, clipped, or shorn; applied to hair [&c.]; as also ↓ قَصِيصٌ: (M, TA:) and to a wing; as also ↓ مُقَصَّصٌ. (A.) مَقْصُوصُ الخَنَاحِ A bird having the wing clipped. (S.) and ↓ مُقَصَّصٌ Having the forelocks clipped, or shorn. (Meyd, in Golius.)

قز

1 قَزَّ, [sec. Pers\., app., قَزُزْتَ,] aor. ـُ inf. n. قَزَازَةٌ, He felt, or had a sense of, or was moved with, shame, or pudency; his soul shrank from foul things: (M:) and [in like manner] ↓ تقزّز he was scrupulous in shunning, or avoiding, unclean things, or impurities; (S, M;) he removed himself far from such things; (S, Mgh, K;) and قُزٌّ [an inf. n. of قَزَّ] signifies the same as تَقَزُّزٌ. (K, TA.) You say also, قَزَّ مِنَ الدَّنَسِ, inf. n. قُزٌّ, He removed himself far from what was unclean. (TK.) And قَزَّتْ نَفْسِى عَنِ الشَّىْءِ, and قَزَّتْهُ, with and without a prep., (M, TA,) inf. n. قَزٌّ, (M, K,) My soul, or mind, refused the thing, or rejected it; (M, K, * TA;) a meaning said by IKtt to be of the dial. of El-Yemen: (TA:) and it loathed the thing; which latter is the more common signification: (M, TA:) and [in like manner] عَنِ الشَّىْءِ ↓ تقزّز he did not eat the thing, nor drink it, willingly: (M, TA:) end مِنْ ↓ تقزّز

أَكْلِ الضَّبِّ وَغَيْرِهِ [he loathed, or shunned, or avoided, the eating of the lizard called ضبّ &c.]. (S, Mgh, TA.) 5 تَقَزَّّ see 1, in three places.

قَزٌّ A quality, or thing, that is to be loathed, or shunned, or avoided, for its uncleanness, in food; as also ↓ قُزُّ and ↓ قَزَازَةٌ. (M, TA.) See also 1.

A2: A man who feels, or has a sense of, or is moved with, shame, or pudency; whose soul shrinks from foul things: (M, TA:) and, as also ↓ قُزٌّ and ↓ قِزٌّ, a man scrupulous in shunning, or avoiding, unclean things, or impurities; (S;) who removes himself far from such things; (S, K;) who does not eat nor drink a thing willingly: (M:) and the same three epithets, (TA,) and ↓ قَزَزٌ (K) and ↓ قُزَّازٌ, (IAar, K,) a man well-bred, or polite, (ظَرِيفٌ,) who guards against vices or faults, and shuns acts of disobedience and afflictions, not through pride: (K, TA;) fem. قَزَّةٌ and قُزَّةٌ and قِزَّةٌ: (M, K: *) the pl. of قَزٌّ is أَقِزَّآءُ, which is anomalous. (M, TA.) A3: I. q. إِبْرِيسَمٌ [Silk: or raw silk:] (K:) or a kind thereof: (S:) or that whereof ابريسم is made; (Lth, Az, Msb, TA;) wherefore some say, that قزّ and ابريسم are like wheat and flour: (Msb:) a Persian word, [originally قَزْ,] (M, TA,) arabicized: (S, M, Msb:) pl. قُزُوزٌ. (M, TA.) b2: [Hence, دُودُ القَزِّ The silk-worm.]

قُزٌّ: see قَزٌّ; the first in three places, and the second in two.

قِزٌّ: see قَزٌّ; the first in three places, and the second in two.

قَزَزٌ: see قَزٌّ; the first in three places, and the second in two.

قَزَازَةٌ: see قَزٌّ, and see also 1.

قَزَّازٌ A seller of قَزّ, q. v. (K.) قُزَّازٌ: see قَزٌّ.