[1]
قَصُرَ , aor.
قَصُرَ , inf. n.
قِصَرٌ (S, M, Msb, K, &c.)
and
قَصْرٌ (IAar, M, K) and
قَصَارَةٌ, (Lh, M, K,)
It (a thing, S, Msb, i. e. anything, M)
was, or
became, short; contr. of طَالَ. (S, M, Msb, K.)
―
2-b2- [And
It was, or
became, too short. And
قَصُرَ عَنْهُ It was, or
became, too short for him, or
it. ―
2-b3- Hence,
قَصُرَتْ يَدُهُ, and
قَصُرَ بَاعُهُ, (tropical:)
He had
little, or
no, power: and
he was, or
became,
niggardly.] ＝
1-A2- And
قَصَرَ السَّهْمُ عَنِ الهَدَفِ, (S, M,
Msb,) aor.
قَصُرَ , (Msb,) inf. n.
قُصُورٌ, (M, Msb,)
The
arrow fell short of the butt; did not reach it; (S,
Msb;)
fell upon the ground without reaching the
butt: (M:) and
قَصَرَ عَنْ مَنْزِلِهِ [
he fell short of
his place of alighting or
abode; did not reach it].
(TA.) ―
2-b2- [Hence,]
قَصَرَ عَنِ الأَمْرِ, (S, Msb, K,)
[and
قَصَرَ دُونَهُ,] aor.
قَصُرَ , (Msb, TA,) inf. n.
قُصُورٌ;
(S, Msb, K;) and ↓
اقصر, (K,) inf. n.
إِقَصَارٌ;
(TA;) and ↓
قصّر, (K,) inf. n.
تَقْصِيرٌ; (TA;) and
↓
تقاصر; (K;) [
He fell, or
stopped, or
came,
short of doing the thing, or
affair; he failed of
doing, or
accomplishing, it;]
he lacked power, or
ability, to do, or
accomplish, the thing, or
affair;
(S, Msb, K;)
he could not attain to it: (S:) or
the first has this signification; (ISk, S, Msb;)
and [in like manner]
قصّر ↓
عَنْهُ, (M, K,) inf. n.
تَقْصِيرٌ, (TA,)
he left or
relinquished it, or
abstained from it, being unable to do or
accomplish
it: (M, K:) but
اقصر ↓
عَنْهُ,
he desisted or
abstained from it, being able to do or
accomplish it:
(ISk, S, M, Msb:) such, at least, is generally
the case, though both sometimes occur in one
and the same sense, that which
اقصر عنه generally
bears: (TA:) and
قصّر ↓
فِى الأَمْرِ [
he fell, or
stopped,
or
came, short in the affair: it signifies nearly
the same as
اقصر عنه, i. e.,
he fell short of
accomplishing the affair; he fell short of doing
what was requisite, or
due, or
what he ought to
have done, (
عَمَّا كَانَ يَنْبَغِى, or the like, being
understood,)
in, or
with respect to, the affair: a
meaning very common, and implied, though not
expressed, in the M: and]
he flagged, or
was
remiss, in the affair; syn.
تَوَانَى: (S, TA:) or
↓
قصّر signifies
he left, desisted from, neglected, or
left undone, a thing, or
part thereof, from inability: but ↓
اقصر,
he left it, &c., or
part thereof,
with ability to do it. (Kull p. 128.) [And ↓
قصّر
دُونَهُ He fell short of reaching, or
attaining, it:
see an ex. voce
يَعْقُوبٌ.] [Hence also,]
قَصَرَتْ
بِنَا النَّفَقَةُ The money for expenses [
fell short of
what we required;]
did not enable us to attain
our object; (Msb;) meaning, that they were unable to pay the expenses: (Mgh:) and
قَصَّرَ ↓
بِهِ
أَمَلُهُ [
his hope fell short of what he required]:
'Antarah says,
فَٱلْيَوْمَ قَصَّرَ عَنْ تِلْقَائِكَ الأَمَلُ
[
but to-day, hope hath fallen short of extending to
the meeting with thee]. (TA.) [And hence,
app.,]
قَصَّرَتْ ↓
بِكَذَا نَفْسُكَ [
Thy mind, or
wish, fell
short of what was requisite with respect to such a
thing], said to him who has sought, or desired,
little, and a mean share or lot. (TA.) And,
قَصَّرَ ↓
بِفُلَانٍ [
He fell short of what was required
by such a one, or
due to him; or]
he acted
meanly, and
sparingly, with such a one, in a gift.
[&c.] (JK [see
مُقَصِّرٌ: and see two exs. of
قَصَّرَ
بِهِ voce
أَزْرَى in art.
زرى.] ―
2-b3- [Also,
قَصَرَ عَنِ
الأَمْرِ, (M, K,) aor.
قَصُرَ , (M,) inf. n.
قُصُورٌ; and
↓
اقصر; and ↓
قصّر and ↓
تقاصر; (M, K;)
He refrained, abstained, or
desisted, from the thing, or
affair. (M, K.) A poet says,
إِذَا غَمَّ خِرْشَآءُ الثُّمَالَةِ أَنْفَهُ
تَقَاصَرَ ↓ مِنْهَا لِلصَّرِيحِ فَأَقْنَعَا
[
When the froth of the water remaining in the
drinking-trough covers his nose, he refrains from
it, turning
to the clear, and raises his head]: or
تقاصر ↓
منها here signifies
he contracts his neck
from it: and it is said that
قصّر ↓
عنه signifies as
explained above,
he left or
relinquished it, &c.
(M.)
قَصَرَ عَنِّى الوَجَعُ, and
الغَضَبُ, (M, K,)
aor.
قَصُرَ , inf. n.
قُصُورٌ, (M,)
The pain, and
anger,
ceased from me; quitted me; (M, K;) as also
قَصِرَ; (M, TA;) which latter is erroneously
written in the copies of the K,
قَصَّرَ: (TA:) and
قَصَرْتُ أَنَا عَنْهُ [
I ceased from it]. (M.) And
أَقْصَرَ ↓
ٱلْمَطَرُ The rain left off. (TA.)
1-A3-
قَدْ قَصَرَ
العَشِىُّ, aor.
قَصُرَ , inf. n.
قُصُورٌ, [
The afternoon, or
evening, has come,] is said when you enter upon
the
مَسَآء [i. e. afternoon, or evening]: (S:) or it
means
has almost drawn near to night. (TA.)
[See also
قَصْرٌ, below.] ―
2-b2- Hence, (S,)
قَصَرْنَا and
↓
أَقْصَرْنَا We entered upon the عَشِىّ [i. e.
afternoon,
or
evening]; (M, K;) the former signifies
أَمْسَيْنَا;
and the latter,
دَخَلْنَا فِى قَصْرِ العَشِىِّ, like as you
say
أَمْسَيْنَا from
المَسَآءُ: (S:) or the former,
we
came to be in the last part of the day; and the
latter,
we entered upon the last part of the day.
(IKtt.) ＝
1-A4-
قَصَرَهُ, (Msb, K,) aor.
قَصُرَ , (Msb,) or
قَصِرَ ,
(K,) inf. n.
قَصْرٌ; (TA;) and ↓
قصّرهُ, (M, Msb,
TA;) inf. n.
تَقْصِيرٌ; (TA;) and ↓
اقصرهُ; (Msb;)
He made it short; (M, K, TA;)
he shortened
it; took from its length. (Msb.) You say
قَصَرَ
الشَّعَرَ, (M, Msb, K,) and
قَصَرَ مِنَ الشَّعَرِ, (S,)
aor.
قَصُرَ , (Msb,) or
قَصِرَ ; (K;) and ↓
قصّره, (Mgh, Msb,
TA,) and
قصّر ↓
مِنْهُ; (S;) and ↓
اقصرهُ; (Msb;)
He shortened the hair; (M, K, * TA;)
took from
its length; (Msb;)
cut its ends; (Mgh;)
clipped,
or
shore, it. (TA.) And
قَصَرَ الصَّلَاةَ, (M, Msb,
TA,) and
قَصَرَ مِنَ الصَّلَاةِ, (S, M, Msb,) aor.
قَصُرَ ,
inf. n.
قَصْرٌ; (S, M, Msb, TA;) and ↓
قصّرها, (M,
Msb, TA,) and ↓
قصّر منها, (S, M,) inf. n.
تَقْصِيرٌ;
(S;) and ↓
اقصرها, (Msb, TA,) and ↓
اقصر منها;
(S;) but
اقصرها is extr.; (TA;)
He curtailed
[or
contracted]
the prayer; (M;)
he performed
a prayer of four rek'ahs (
رَكَعَات)
making it of
two; (Mgh;) in a journey. (Mgh, TA.) And
اقصر ↓
الخُطْبَةَ He made the [
form of words
called]
خطبة [
delivered from the pulpit]
short,
or
concise: (Mgh, TA: *) the doing so being
commanded. (Mgh.)
قَصْرٌ also signifies the contr.
of
مَدٌّ; (M, K;) and the verb is
قَصَرَ [
He contracted, or
straitened]. (M.) You say
قَصَرْتُ
قَيْدَ البَعِيرِ; (Msb;) and
قَصَرْتُ لَهُ مِنْ قَيْدِهِ; (M;)
aor.
قَصُرَ , inf. n.
قَصْرٌ; (M, Msb;)
I contracted the
shackles of the camel; syn.
صَيَّقُتُهُ; (Msb;) and
I contracted his shackles; syn.
قَارَبْتُ. (M.)
[And in like manner,
قَصَّرَ ↓
العَطِيَّةَ, inf. n.
تَقْصِيرٌ,
He made the gift scanty, or
mean: or, accord.
to the TK,
قصّر فِى العَطِيَّةِ, which properly
signifies
he fell short of what he ought to have
done with respect to the gift: but, though each of
these phrases is doubtless correct, the former expression I hold to be that which is indicated
when it is said that]
التَّقْصِيرُ signifies
إِخْسَاسُ
العَطِيَّةِ. (M, K.) ＝
1-A5-
قَصَرَهُ, (S, M, Msb,) aor.
قَصُرَ ,
(S, M,) inf. n.
قَصْرٌ, (S, M, Msb, K,)
He confined, restricted, limited, kept within certain
bounds or
limits, restrained, withheld, hindered
or
prevented, him, or
it; syn.
حَبَسَهُ. (S, M,
Msb, K. *) It is said in a trad. of Mo'ádh,
لَهُ مَا قَصَرَ فِى بَيْتِهِ To him belongeth what he hath
held confined in, or
kept within, his house or
tent:
(TA:) or
what he hath held in possession &c.
(Az, TA in art.
خمر: see 10 in that art.) You
say also
قَصَرْتُ الدَّارَ, inf. n. as above,
I [
confined
and so]
defended the house by walls. (TA.) And
قَصَرَ الجَارِيَةَ بِٱلْحِجَابِ He [
confined and so]
kept
safe the girl by means of the veil, or
covering, or
the like: and in like manner you say of a horse.
(TA.) And in a trad. of 'Omar it is said,
قَصَرَ بِهِمُ اللَّيْلُ, (TA,) or ↓
قَصَّرَ, (L,)
The night
withheld them; namely a company of riders upon
camels on other beasts. (L, TA.) You also say
قَصَرَ الرَّجُلَ عَنِ الأَمْرِ [and
قَصَرَ بِهِ and
قصّر ↓
به]
He withheld the man from the thing, or
affair,
that he desired to do. (TA.) [See an ex. in a
verse cited voce
طَلَّاع.] And
قَصَرْتُ نَفَسِى عَنْ
شَىْءٍ I withheld, or
restrained, myself from a
thing: (JK, TA: *) and
I restrained myself from
inordinate desire of a thing. (TA.) Lebeed
says
فَلَسْتُ وَإِنْ أَقْصَرْتُ عَنْهُ بِمُقْصِرِ
meaning,
But although thou blame in order that
I may
be restrained, I do not refrain from that
which I desire to do. (El-Mázinee, L.) Also,
قَصَرْتُ طَرْفِى [
I restrained my eye, or
eyes;]
I did
not raise my eye, or
eyes, towards that at which
I ought not to look. (TA.) And
قَصَرَ البَصَرَ He
turned away the eye. (TA.) It is also said in a
trad. of I'Ab,
قُصِرَ الرِّجَالُ عَلَى أَرْبَعٍ مِنْ أَجْلِ
أَمْوَالِ اليَتَامَى Men were restricted to marrying no
more than
four [
because of the property of the
orphans which they might leave]. (TA.) And
one says
قَصَرْتُ نَفْسِى عَلَى الشَّىْءِ I confined, or
restricted, myself to the thing, and obliged myself
to do it. (TA.) [See also 8.] Hence what is
said of Thumámeh, in a trad.,
فأَبَى أَنْ يُسْلِمَ قَصْرًا
But he refused to become a Muslim by constraint
and compulsion: or
by force, as some say, from
القَسُرُ; the
س being changed into
ص, as is done
in many other cases. (TA.) You say also
قَصَرْتُ الشَّىْءَ عَلَى كَذَا I restricted the thing to
such a thing. (S, TA.) And
قَصَرَهُ عَلَى الأَمْرِ,
meaning,
رَدَّهُ إِلَيْهِ, (M, K,) i. e., [
He reduced
him, to the thing, or
affair; or]
he appropriated
him [or
it, restrictively,]
to the thing, or
affair.
(TK.) [Hence,]
قَصَرْتُ اللِّقْحَةَ عَلَى فَرَسِى I
appropriated the milk of
the milch-camel [
restrictively]
to my horse. (S, TA.) [And hence,]
قَصَرْتُ عَلَى نَفْسِى نَاقَةً I retained for myself [
restrictively]
a she-camel, that I might drink her
milk. (Msb.) Aboo-Du-ád says, describing a
horse,
فَقُصِرْنَ الشِّتَآءَ بَعْدُ عَلَيْهِ
وَهُوَ لِلذَّوْدِ أَنْ يُقَسَّمْنَ جَارٌ
meaning,
So they were restricted to him, that he
might drink their milk,
during the severity of
the
winter, afterwards; and he is a protector to the
few she-camels from their being suddenly attacked
and
divided in shares; مِنْ being understood before
أَنْ. (M.) ＝
1-A6-
قَصَرَ الثَّوْبَ, (S, M, Msb,) aor.
قَصُرَ ,
(S,) inf. n.
قَصْرٌ (S, Mgh, Msb) and
قِصَارَةٌ; (Sb,
M, TA;) and ↓
قصّرهُ, (S, M,) inf. n.
تَقْصِيرٌ; (S;)
He beat, (S, TA,)
washed, (Mgh,)
and whitened,
(M, Msb, TA,)
the cloth, or
garment. (S, M, &c.)