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قِصَاصٌ

Root: قص

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قِصَاصٌ : see قُصَاص.

def.2 Also, and قَصَاصَآءُ , (so in a copy of the M, and in the CK, and in a MS copy of the K [in the TA , which I think a mistake,]) and , [the first an Verbal.Noun of 3, q. v.,] i. q. قَوَدٌ; Retaliation, by slaying for slaying, and wounding for wounding, and mutilating for mutilating.
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