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قَبَضَهُ , (S, M, A, Mgh, Msb,) or
قَبَضَهُ بِيَدِهِ, (O,
K,) aor.
قَبِضَ , (A, Msb, K,) inf. n.
قَبْضٌ, (S, Msb,)
He took it with his hand, (A, O, K,)
by actual
touch, or
feel: (O:) or the former signifies
he
closed his hand upon it: (Lth:) [
he grasped it;
griped it; clutched it; seized it:] or
he took
it with the whole of his hand: (Bd, xx. 96:) or
i. q. أَجَذَهُ [
he took it in any manner:
he took it
with his hand: he took possession of it: and
he
received it]: (S, M, Mgh, Msb:) and
قَبَضَ عَلَيْهِ,
and
بِهِ, (M,) or
قَبَضَ عَلَيْهِ بِيَدَهِ, (A, Mgh, Msb,
K,) aor. and inf. n. as above, (M,)
he grasped it,
clutched it, laid hold upon it, or
seized it, with his
hand; syn.
أَمْسَكَهُ: (A, K:) or
he seized it
(
أَنْحَى عَلَيْهِ)
with the whole of his hand: (M:)
or
he closed, or
contracted, his fingers upon it:
(Mgh, Msb:) it is also said, by MF, that
some assert
قَبْضٌ to signify the “ taking with the
ends of the fingers; ” but this is a mistranscription, for
قَبْضٌ, with the unpointed
ص. (TA
[in which it is said, in another place in this art.,
that ↓
تَقْبِيضٌ has also this last signification; but
this is evidently, in like manner, a mistranscription, for
تَقْبِيضٌ.]) You say,
قَبَضَ المَتَاعَ
[
He took, or
received, the commodity, or
the commodities, or
goods]. (A.) And
قَبَضَ مِنْهُ الدَّيْنَ
[
He took, or
received, from him the debt]. (M,
K, in art.
قضى; &c.). And it is said in the
Kur, [xx. 96,]
فَقَبَضْتُ قَبْضَةً مِنْ أَثَرِ الرَّسُولِ, (M,)
and, accord. to an extraordinary reading, ↓
قَبِيضَةً,
(B,) meaning [
And I took a handful] of the dust
from the footstep of the hoof of the horse
of
the messenger [Gabriel]: (IJ, M:) and ↓
إِقْتَبَضَ
مِنْ أَتَرِهِ قَبْضَةً signifies the same as
قَبَضَ: and
قَبَصَ [q. v.] is [said to be] a dial. form thereof.
(TA.) And you say,
قَبَضَ الطَّائِرَ He collected,
or
comprehended, the bird in his grasp. (A.)
And
قَبَضَ عَلَى عُرْفِ الفَرَسِ [
He grasped, or
laid
hold upon, the mane of the horse]. (A.) ―
2-b2- It is
also used metaphorically, to denote the having
an absolute property in a thing, to dispose of it
at pleasure, without respect to the hand; as in
the phrase
قَبَضْتُ الأَرْضَ, and
الدَّارَ, (tropical:)
I had, or
took, or
got, possession of the land, and
of the
house. (TA.) And [in like manner] it is said
in a trad.,
يَقْبِضُ ٱللّٰهُ الأَرْضَ, and
السَّمَآءَ, (assumed tropical:)
God
will comprehend, or
collect together, [
within his
sole possession, (see
قُبْضَةٌ,)]
the earth, and
the
heaven. (TA.) [In like manner] you say also,
قَبَضَ عَلَى غَرِيمِهِ (tropical:) [
He arrested his debtor:
used in this sense in the present day]. (A.)
And
قَبَضَ ٱللّٰهُ رُوحَهُ (tropical:)
God took his soul. (TA.)
And
قَبَضَهُ ٱللّٰهُ (tropical:)
God caused him to die. (Msb.)
And
قُبِضَ (tropical:)
He (a man, S, M, A)
died: (S M,
A, * K:) and also (assumed tropical:)
he (a sick man)
was at the
point of death; in the state of having his soul
taken; in the agony of death. (L, TA.) And
قَبَضْتُهُ عَنِ الأَمْرِ (assumed tropical:)
I removed him from the thing,
or
affair. (Msb.) ―
2-b3-
قَبَضَهُ, aor. as above, (M,
K,) and so the inf. n., (S, M, Mgh,) also signifies
the (assumed tropical:)
contr. of بَسَطَهُ; (S, * M, Mgh, * K;) and so
↓
قبّضهُ, (IAar, M,) inf. n.
تَقْبِيضٌ. (TA.) [As
such, (assumed tropical:)
He contracted it; or
drew it together.]
You say,
قَبَضَ رِجْلَهُ وَبَسَطَهَا (tropical:) [
He contracted his
leg, and extended it]. (A.) And
قَبَضَ كَفَّهُ [
He
clenched his hand]. (S, Mgh, Msb, K, in art.
برجم.). And
قَبَضَ يَدَهُ عَنْهُ (assumed tropical:) [
He drew in his
hand from it: or]
he refrained from laying hold
upon it. (K.) Whence the saying in the Kur,
[ix. 68,]
وَيَقْبِضُونَ أَيْدِيَهُمْ, meaning (assumed tropical:) [
And they
draw in their hands, or
refrain,] from expenditure, or from paying the [poor-rate called]
زَكَاة.
(TA.) You say also,
قبّض ↓
جَنَاحَهُ (assumed tropical:)
He (a bird)
contracted his wing: (M:) or
قَبَضَ, or
قَبَضَ
جَنَاحَهُ, (assumed tropical:)
he contracted his wing to fly. (TA.)
And hence, (TA,)
قَبَضَ, aor. as above; (S, K;)
or
قَبُضَ (M;) [or both;] inf. n. [of the former]
قَبْضٌ (S, K,) and [of the latter, as indicated in
the M,]
قَبَاضَةٌ (S, M, A, K) and
قَبَاضٌ; (M;)
(tropical:)
He (a bird, S, K, and a horse, A, and a man,
S, or other [animal], K,)
was quick, (S, M, A,
K,)
in flight, or
in going or
pace. (K.)
يَقْبِضْنَ,
said of birds, in the Kur, [lxvii. 19,] is [said to
be] an ex. of this signification. (S, K. *) You
say also,
قَبَضَتِ الإِبِلُ (tropical:)
The camels were quick in
their pace; at every spring therein, putting their
legs together. (A.) And ↓
إِنْقَبَضَ (tropical:)
He, or
it, (a
company of men, M,)
went, or
journeyed, and
was quick. (Lth, M, K.) And
إِنْقَبَضَ ↓
فِى فُلَانٌ
حَاجَتِهِ (tropical:)
Such a one was quick, and light, or
active, in accomplishing his want. (A.) And
قَبْضٌ also signifies
i. q. نَزْوٌ (assumed tropical:) [The act of
leaping,
&c.]. (TA.) ―
2-b4- [Also, as contr. of
بَسَطَهُ,] (assumed tropical:)
He
collected it together. (Az.) And hence, (Az,)
قَبَضَ الإِبِلَ, (Az, M,) aor.
قَبِضَ , inf. n.
قَبْضٌ (Az, S,
M) (assumed tropical:)
He drove (Az, S, M)
the camels violently,
or
roughly, (Az, M.) or
quickly: (S:) because
the driver collects them together, when he
desires to drive them; for when they disperse
themselves from him, the driving of them is
difficult: (Az, TA:) and
إِنْقَبَضَ ↓
بِهَا [signifies the
same, or, agreeably with an explanation given
above, (tropical:)
he went quickly with them]. (M.) And
العَيْرُ يَقْبِضُ عَانَتَهُ (assumed tropical:)
The he-ass drives away his she-ass. (M.) ―
2-b5- [As such also,]
قَبَضَهُ; (A;) and
↓
قبّضهُ, (S, M, K,) inf. n.
تَقْبِيضٌ; (S;) (tropical:)
He, or
it, drew it, collected it, or
gathered it, together;
contracted it, shrank it, or
wrinkled it. (S, M,
A, * K.) You say,
قَبَضَ وَجْهَهُ (tropical:)
He, or
it, contracted, or
wrinkled, his face]. (A.) And
قَبَضَتِ
النَّارُ الجِلْدَةَ (tropical:) [
The fire contracted, shrank, or
shrivelled, the piece of skin]. (A.) And ↓
قَبَّضَ
مَا بَيْنِ عَيْنَيْهِ (assumed tropical:)
He contracted, or
wrinkled, the
part between his eyes. (M, TA.) And ↓
يَوْمٌ يُقَبِّضُ
مَا بَيْنَ العَيْنَيْنِ (assumed tropical:) [
A day that contracts, or
wrinkles, the part between the eyes]; a metonymical phrase, denoting vehemence of fear, or of
war. (M, TA. *) And in like manner you say,
يَوْمٌ يُقَبِّضُ ↓
الحَشَى (assumed tropical:) [
A day that contracts the
bowels]. (M.) [And hence
قَبَضَ, aor. and inf. n.
as first mentioned, (assumed tropical:)
It (a medicine, or food, &c.,)
astringed, or
constipated. And (assumed tropical:)
It (food)
was
astringent in taste; as also ↓
تَقَبَّضَ.] ―
2-b6- As such
also,
قَبَضَهُ, signifies (assumed tropical:)
He straitened it; scanted it;
made it scanty. (Msb, TA.) You say,
قَبَضَ ٱللّٰهُ الرِزْقَ,
aor. and inf. n. as first mentioned, (assumed tropical:)
God straitened, scanted, or
made scanty, the means of subsistence. (Msb.) And it is said in the Kur,
[ii. 246,]
وَٱللّٰهُ يَقْبِضُ وَيَبْسُطُ (assumed tropical:)
And God straitens,
or
scants, or
makes scanty, the means of subsistence, to some, (Bd, Msb, * TA, *) or
withholds
the means of subsistence from whom He will,
(Jel,)
and amplifies, enlarges, or
makes ample or
plentiful, the same, (Bd, Msb, Jel, TA,) to
some, (Bd, TA,) or to whom He will. (Jel.)
―
2-b7- [As such also, (assumed tropical:)
He abridged his liberty.]
You say,
فُلَانٌ يَبْسُطُ غَبِيدَهُ ثُمَّ يَقْبِضُهُمْ (tropical:) [
Such a
one enlarges the liberty of his slaves; then abridges
their liberty]. (A.) ―
2-b8- [As such also, (tropical:)
He, or
it, contracted his heart; i. e.
distressed him;
grieved him.] You say,
إِنَّهُ يَقْبِضُنِى مَا يَقْبِضُكَ
وَيَبْسُطُنِى مَا يَبْسُطُكَ (tropical:)
Verily what distresses thee,
or
grieves thee, distresses, or
grieves, me; and what
rejoices thee rejoices me]. (A.) [And it is related
in a trad., that Mohammad said,
فَاطِمَةُ مِنِّى
يَقْبِضُنِى مَا قَبَضَهَا وَيَبْسُطُنِى مَا بَسَطَهاَ (tropical:) [
Fátimeh is
as though she were a part
of me: what hath distressed her, or
grieved her, distresses, or
grieves,
me; and what hath rejoiced her rejoices me].
(TA.) Or the phrase
إِنَّهُ لَيَقْبِضُنِى مَا قَبَضَكَ,
mentioned by Lth, means (assumed tropical:)
Verily what hath
annoyed and angered thee annoys and angers
me. (Az, TA.)
قَبْضٌ and
بَسْطٌ are terms applied
by the investigators of truth among the Soofees
to two contrary states of the heart, from both of
which it is seldom or never free: the former
being an affection of the heart withholding it from
dilatation and joy; whether the cause thereof be
known, as the remembrance of a sin or an offence,
or of an omission, or be not known; and some of
them make other divisions thereof. (TA.) [In like
manner] you say also,
اِنْقَبَضْتُ ↓
عَنَّا فَمَا قَبَضَكَ
(tropical:) [
Thou shrankest from us: and what made thee
to shrink?]. (A.) ―
2-b9- [As such also, (tropical:)
He, or
it,
made him close-fisted, tenacious, or
niggardly.]
You say,
الخَيْرُ يَقْبِضُهُ وَالشَّرُّ يَبْسُطُهُ (tropical:) [
Wealth
makes him close-fisted, tenacious, or
niggardly;
and poverty makes him open-handed, liberal, or
generous]. (A.)