قَسْوَرَةٌ
Root: قسر
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قَسْوَرَةٌ
Mighty; that overpowers, or subdues, others: also strong; applied to a man: and courageous: pl. قَسَاوِرُ.
2 A lion; as also قَسْوَرٌ : because he overcomes and overpowers. So in the Kur, [lxxiv. 51,] كَأَتَّهُمْ حُمُرٌ مُسْتَنْفِرَةٌ فَرَّتْ مِنْ قَسْوَرَةٍ [As though they were asses taking fright and running away at random that have fled from a lion]. Or it has here the signification next following.
3 Hunters that shoot, or cast: sing. قَسْوَرٌ ; accord. to Lth.; [and in the M it is said that قَسْوَرٌ signifies a shooter, or caster: or, accord. to some, a hunter:] but this is a mistake; for قسورة is a coll. n., having no sing.; and Fr says, that in the verse of the Kur cited above, it means shooters, or casters of missile weapons: it is also related of 'Ikrimeh, that it was said to him that قسورة signifies, in the Abyssinian language, a lion; but he said that is signification is that given above on the authority of Fr, and that the lion in the Abyssinian language is called عَنْبَسَة: and Ibn-'Arafeh says قسورة is of the measure فَعْوَلَةٌ from القَسْرُ; and that the meaning [in the Kur] is, as though they were asses made to take fright and run away by shooting or hunting &c. Or, accord. to I'Ab, in the passage above cited, it has the signification here next following.
def.2 The sound of men, and their voices, or cries.
2 A lion; as also قَسْوَرٌ : because he overcomes and overpowers. So in the Kur, [lxxiv. 51,] كَأَتَّهُمْ حُمُرٌ مُسْتَنْفِرَةٌ فَرَّتْ مِنْ قَسْوَرَةٍ [As though they were asses taking fright and running away at random that have fled from a lion]. Or it has here the signification next following.
3 Hunters that shoot, or cast: sing. قَسْوَرٌ ; accord. to Lth.; [and in the M it is said that قَسْوَرٌ signifies a shooter, or caster: or, accord. to some, a hunter:] but this is a mistake; for قسورة is a coll. n., having no sing.; and Fr says, that in the verse of the Kur cited above, it means shooters, or casters of missile weapons: it is also related of 'Ikrimeh, that it was said to him that قسورة signifies, in the Abyssinian language, a lion; but he said that is signification is that given above on the authority of Fr, and that the lion in the Abyssinian language is called عَنْبَسَة: and Ibn-'Arafeh says قسورة is of the measure فَعْوَلَةٌ from القَسْرُ; and that the meaning [in the Kur] is, as though they were asses made to take fright and run away by shooting or hunting &c. Or, accord. to I'Ab, in the passage above cited, it has the signification here next following.
def.2 The sound of men, and their voices, or cries.
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