مُقْعَنْسِسٌ

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مُقْعَنْسِسٌ Drawing back; holding back; or hanging back: [see its verb:] or strong; powerful; mighty: also anything drawing in his head upon his neck, like him who refrains, or defends himself, from a thing: a camel that resists being led: anything that resists, or withstands: might, or power, that resists, or withstands, injury. [See also أَقْعَسُ.] The pl. is مَقَاعِسُ and مَقَاعِيسُ; the addition of the ى being in this case optional. The dim. is مُقَيْعِسٌ, or مُقَيْعِيسٌ, or قُعَيْسِسٌ and قُعَيْسِيسٌ, or قُعَيْنِسٌ, or قُعَيْسٌ: Mbr objected to the first and second of these, as not agreeable with analogy; and preferred the third and fourth, or, accord. to the S, the fifth, or, as some say, the last.

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