قاصّهُ

Root: قص

Form: 3

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قاصّهُIII , Verbal.Noun مُقَاصَّةٌ and قِصَاصٌ, [which latter is the more common,] He retaliated upon him by slaying him, or wounding him, or mutilating him, so as to make him quit, or even, with him. See also 8.
2 Hence, He made him quit, or even, with himself: used in a general way. You say, قاصّ صَاحِبَهُ, inf. ns. as above, He made his fellow quit, or even, with him, in a reckoning, or other thing, by withholding from him the like of what the latter owed to him; he made a debt which his fellow owed him to be as a requital of a like debt which he owed his fellow: [but Fei adds,] this is taken from إِقْتِصَاصُ الأَثَرِ: and hence the former signification, relating to retaliation of slaughter and wounding and mutilation, which, however, is the predominant signification. You say also, قَاصَصْتُهُ بِمَا كَانَ لِى قَبْلَهُ, [or, more probably, قِبَلَهُ, or perhaps عَلَيْهِ,] I withheld from him the like of what he owed me. ISd says, The phrase قُوصَّ زَيْدٌ مَا عَلَيْهِ has been mentioned; and means, in my opinion, Zeyd was reckoned with for what he owed: though made trans. without a particle, as implying the meaning of أُغْرِمَ and the like.

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