قِسْطٌ
Root: قسط
Full Definition
قِسْطٌ
Equity; justice: [an Verbal.Noun having no proper verb, or] a subst. from أَقْسَطَ.
def.2 Equitable; just: an Verbal.Noun used as an epithet, like its syn. عَدْلٌ; and [therefore] applied alike to a sing. n. [and to a dual] and to a pl.: you say مِيزَانٌ قِسْطٌ an equitable, or a just, balance; and مِيزَانَانِ قِسْطٌ; and, agreeably with the usage of the Kur, xxi. 48, مَوَازِينُ قِسْطٌ.
def.3 A portion, share, or lot; of a thing; and pertaining to a person: pl. أَقْسَاطٌ. You say, وَفَّاهُ قِسْطَهُ He gave him in full his portion, share, or lot. And أَخَذَ كُلٌّ مِنَ الشُّرَكَآءِ قِسْطَهُ Every one of the partners took his portion, or share.
2 A portion, or piece. (So accord. to an explanation of the pl., أَقْسَاطٌ, in the TA.)
3 The means of subsistence: or the portion thereof which is the share of every created being. يَخْفِضُ القِسْطَ وَيَرْفَعُهُ, said of God, in a trad., has been explained as meaning He maketh the portion of the means of subsistence which is the share of any created being little, and maketh it much. [See, below, another meaning which is assigned to it in this instance; and see also art. خفض.]
4 A quantity, of water only; or any quantity, of water and of other things.
5 A measure with which corn is measured, which holds half of a صَاع; six thereof making a فَرْقَ: accord. to Mbr, four hundred and eighty-one dirhems. Sometimes it is used for performing the ablution termed وُضُوْء: and hence it is said in a trad., إِنَّ النِّسَآءَ مِنْ أَسْفَهِ السُّفَهَآءِ إِلَّا صَاحِبَةَ القِسْطِ وَالسِّرَاجِ; the قِسْط being here the vessel in which the وضوء is performed; the meaning app. being, [Women are of the most lightwitted of the lightwitted,] except she who serves her husband, and assists him to perform the وضوء, [so I render تُوَضِّئُهُ,] and takes care of the vessel which he uses for that purpose, and stands at his head with the lamp: or who performs his affairs with respect to his وضوء and his lamp.
6 A [mug of the kind called] كُوز; so called by the people of the great towns: now applied to one with which olive-oil is measured.
7 A balance, or weighing-instrument. Some say that this is its meaning in the phrase mentioned above, يَخْفِضُ القِسْطَ وَيَرْفَعُهُ He depresseth the balance, and raiseth it: alluding to the means of subsistence which He decrees.
def.2 Equitable; just: an Verbal.Noun used as an epithet, like its syn. عَدْلٌ; and [therefore] applied alike to a sing. n. [and to a dual] and to a pl.: you say مِيزَانٌ قِسْطٌ an equitable, or a just, balance; and مِيزَانَانِ قِسْطٌ; and, agreeably with the usage of the Kur, xxi. 48, مَوَازِينُ قِسْطٌ.
def.3 A portion, share, or lot; of a thing; and pertaining to a person: pl. أَقْسَاطٌ. You say, وَفَّاهُ قِسْطَهُ He gave him in full his portion, share, or lot. And أَخَذَ كُلٌّ مِنَ الشُّرَكَآءِ قِسْطَهُ Every one of the partners took his portion, or share.
2 A portion, or piece. (So accord. to an explanation of the pl., أَقْسَاطٌ, in the TA.)
3 The means of subsistence: or the portion thereof which is the share of every created being. يَخْفِضُ القِسْطَ وَيَرْفَعُهُ, said of God, in a trad., has been explained as meaning He maketh the portion of the means of subsistence which is the share of any created being little, and maketh it much. [See, below, another meaning which is assigned to it in this instance; and see also art. خفض.]
4 A quantity, of water only; or any quantity, of water and of other things.
5 A measure with which corn is measured, which holds half of a صَاع; six thereof making a فَرْقَ: accord. to Mbr, four hundred and eighty-one dirhems. Sometimes it is used for performing the ablution termed وُضُوْء: and hence it is said in a trad., إِنَّ النِّسَآءَ مِنْ أَسْفَهِ السُّفَهَآءِ إِلَّا صَاحِبَةَ القِسْطِ وَالسِّرَاجِ; the قِسْط being here the vessel in which the وضوء is performed; the meaning app. being, [Women are of the most lightwitted of the lightwitted,] except she who serves her husband, and assists him to perform the وضوء, [so I render تُوَضِّئُهُ,] and takes care of the vessel which he uses for that purpose, and stands at his head with the lamp: or who performs his affairs with respect to his وضوء and his lamp.
6 A [mug of the kind called] كُوز; so called by the people of the great towns: now applied to one with which olive-oil is measured.
7 A balance, or weighing-instrument. Some say that this is its meaning in the phrase mentioned above, يَخْفِضُ القِسْطَ وَيَرْفَعُهُ He depresseth the balance, and raiseth it: alluding to the means of subsistence which He decrees.
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