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وَقَصَ

Root: وقص

Form: 1

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وَقَصَI , and الشَّىْءَ, Present.T يَقِصُ, Verbal.Noun وَقْصٌ, He broke his neck, and the thing. You say also, وَقَصَتْ بِهِ رَاحِلَتُهُ [His riding-camel, or she-camel, broke its neck]: like as you say, خُذِ الخِطَامَ and خُذْ بِالخِطَام: and وَقَصَتِ النَّاقَةُ بِرَاكِبِهَا The she-camel threw her rider and broke his neck. And وُقِصَ He had his neck broken; said of a man; [and also] said of a camel, signifying, he became diseased in his back, and without motion: and in like manner said of the neck, and of the back. And وَقَصْتُ رَأْسَهُ I pressed, or squeezed, his head; sometimes meaning, so as to break the neck.
2 [Hence,] وَقَصَ الدَّيْنُ عُنُقَهُ Debt [oppressed him as though it] broke his neck.
3 [Hence also,] الفَرَسُ يَقِصُ الإِكَامَ The horse bruises the hills, or rising grounds: or breaks the summits thereof: and in like manner one says of a she-camel.
4 You say also, الدَّابَّةُ تَذُبُّ بِذَنَبِهَا فَتَقِصُ عَنْهَا الذُّبَابَ The beast of carriage beats off from her with her tail, and kills, the flies.

def.2 وَقَصَتِ العُنُقُ The neck broke: thus the verb is intrans. as well as trans.: or, accord. to Ks, one does not say this: i. e., one only says of the neck وُقِصَت, using the pass. form.

def.3 وَقِصَ, Present.T يَوْقَصُ, Verbal.Noun وَقَصٌ, He was short in the neck.


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