قصد

قَصَدَ

To tend or direct oneself toward someone or something; make it one's aim; seek, intend, or purpose it.

Also used for directing oneself toward someone with a thing, or for pursuing another person's course or way.

• Lane · entry 8433
• Lane · entry 8440

قَصَدَ

To follow a right or middle course; act justly, equitably, or moderately, avoiding excess and deficiency.

Used of conduct in affairs, spending, or livelihood; the construction اقْصِدْ بِذَرْعِكَ means to moderate or restrain oneself.

• Lane · entry 8433

قَصْدٌ

Tending or directing oneself; an aim, intention, purpose, or object of pursuit.

The noun may denote either the course or direction taken or what is intended and sought.

• Lane · entry 8439

قَصْدٌ

Rightness or conformity to the just mean in what is said or done; a right course.

A normative use describing speech, action, or conduct as sound, just, and neither excessive nor deficient.

• Lane · entry 8439

قَصْدٌ

A little amount that is given.

• Lane · entry 8439

قُصِدَ لَهُ

To be given a little.

A passive construction describing the recipient of a small amount.

• Lane · entry 8433

قَصْدَهُ

The direction toward someone or something; the course or way pursued.

It can also mean following another person's way or course, doing and thinking as that person does.

• Lane · entry 8440

قَصْدَكَ

Before you; in front of your face.

A conventional adverbial expression, also found with the corresponding nominative form.

• Lane · entry 8440

قَصَدَ

To break a stick or other object, whether generally or into halves.

The breaking may be described without specifying a particular manner.

• Lane · entry 8433

قَصَّدَ

To break many things or break something into many pieces.

A derived causative/intensive usage associated with breaking into multiple pieces.

• Lane · entry 8433

قَصِدٌ

Broken, especially of a spear broken in halves or into many pieces.

Used adjectivally of a broken spear or similar object.

• Lane · entry 8441

قِصْدَةٌ

A fragment or piece of a broken thing; a piece of a bone.

A bone fragment may be specified as roughly a third or quarter, less than half, of the relevant limb or part.

• Lane · entry 8442

أَقْصَدَ

To cause someone or something to tend, turn, aim, seek, or direct its course toward an object.

Used when an affair or other cause brings about the directing or aiming.

• Lane · entry 8435

أَقْصَدَ

To strike or hit an object without missing and kill it immediately.

Used of an arrow, spear, serpent, or destiny when the blow or action proves instantly fatal.

• Lane · entry 8435

أَقْصَدَ

To compose qasidas or continue and prolong the composition of such poems.

A poetic technical usage connected with the noun قَصِيدَة.

• Lane · entry 8435

تَقَصَّدَ

To die.

Reported especially of an animal such as a dog.

• Lane · entry 8436

اِنْقَصَدَ

To break or become broken, including breaking in halves or into pieces.

Used of objects such as a spear; the form is described as uncommon.

• Lane · entry 8437

اِنْقَصَدَ

For marrow to become detached or come forth from its place.

Used specifically of marrow leaving the place in which it was contained.

• Lane · entry 8437

قَصُدَ

To become fat or full-bodied.

Used of a camel.

• Lane · entry 8433

قَصُودٌ

A camel having compact marrow.

A descriptive bodily or animal term.

• Lane · entry 8443

قَصِيدٌ

Aimed at, sought, desired, intended, or purposed.

An adjectival or participial use describing what is the object of intention or pursuit.

• Lane · entry 8444

قَصِيدٌ

Thick or fat marrow; a bone containing marrow; and, by related usage, dry or tough flesh, a plump she-camel, or a fat camel's hump.

The reports vary over whether the flesh described is dry and tough or fat; the bodily and animal senses concern compactness or fullness.

• Lane · entry 8444

قَصِيدٌ

A staff.

A nominal use distinct from the bodily and poetic senses.

• Lane · entry 8444

قَصِيدٌ

A polished, complete poem or ode, especially one with complete hemistichs and deliberately finished composition.

قَصِيدٌ may function as a collective term for poetry or as a term for an individual qasida; قَصِيدَةٌ is the corresponding unit form.

• Lane · entry 8444

قَاصِدٌ

Direct, right, or even, of a road or way; rightly aimed, of an arrow.

The adjective describes a road with a direct tendency or an arrow directed correctly toward its target.

• Lane · entry 8446

قَاصِدٌ

Near.

Also used in the expression for water whose pasture is near.

• Lane · entry 8446

أَقْصَدُ

More or most direct; more or most right and just.

A comparative or superlative adjective used of a road, course, or choice.

• Lane · entry 8447

مَقْصَدَةٌ

A thing that causes people to seek, pursue, or desire it.

A noun of cause or object of pursuit.

• Lane · entry 8453

مَقْصَدَةٌ

A great and complete woman who pleases everyone who beholds her.

A specialized descriptive usage reported for this feminine noun.

• Lane · entry 8453

مَقْصَدَةٌ

A woman inclining to shortness of stature.

Reported as an alternative form or spelling in the lexical tradition.

• Lane · entry 8453

مَقْصَدٌ

The intended sense or meaning of a saying; an intended or purposed object.

In مَقْصَدُ الكلام it denotes the intended meaning; it may also denote an object of aim or pursuit.

• Lane · entry 8449

مَقْصِدٌ

A place or destination toward which one tends, directs one's course, or aims.

Also used of the right or intended destinations toward which roads tend.

• Lane · entry 8450

مُقْصَدٌ

One who falls sick and quickly dies.

A rare descriptive noun for a person in this condition.

• Lane · entry 8451

مُقْصِدٌ

One who composes qasidas or continues and prolongs their composition.

A professional or habitual poetic description.

• Lane · entry 8452

مُقَصَّدٌ

A person of moderate or middle stature, neither tall nor short and neither corpulent nor thin.

A bodily description of balanced or middling build.

• Lane · entry 8455