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أَقْصَدَنِى

Root: قصد

Form: 4

Full Definition

أَقْصَدَنِىIV 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.
2 It hit its object, and killed on the spot.
3 He pierced a man with a spear, or shot him with an arrow, and did not miss him: he struck, or shot, a thing so that it died on the spot: he killed on the spot: it killed a person on the spot: or bit him so as to kill him. أَقْصَدَتْهُ المَنِيَّةُ Destiny killed him on the spot.

def.2 اقصد, (Verbal.Noun إِقْصَادٌ, TA,) He composed [odes, or] poems of the kind termed قَصِيد; a verb similar to أَرْمَلَ and أَهْزَجَ and أَرْجَزَ: also, or اقتصد , Verbal.Noun إِقْتِصَادٌ, accord. to the K, but the former is the correct form, [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 , Verbal.Noun قَصْدٌ; or قَصَّدَ ; he continued uninterruptedly, and prolonged, the composition of [odes, or] poems of the kind termed قَصَائِد. See مُقْصدٌ.
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