قصر

قَصُرَ

To be or become short; to have little height or extent.

The basic intransitive physical sense, opposite of being long or tall.

• Lane · entry 8458

قَصَرَ

To fall short of reaching, attaining, or accomplishing something; to lack the power to achieve it.

Used with عَنْ or دُونَ and with affairs, places, hopes, or required actions; it can also describe remissness or failure.

• Lane · entry 8458

قَصَرَ

To refrain, desist, or cease from something; for pain, anger, or rain, to leave off or cease.

With عَنْهُ, cessation may be voluntary or may result from inability; the sources distinguish this use from desisting while still able, though the two may overlap.

• Lane · entry 8458

قَصَرَ

To enter the afternoon or evening, or to approach the last part of the day.

The verb is used of entering the time called العَشِيّ or the period shortly before nightfall.

• Lane · entry 8458
• Lane · entry 8486

قَصَرَ

To make something short, contracted, concise, or scant; to remove part of its length.

Applies to such things as hair, speech, a gift, a tether or shackle, and other objects whose extent can be reduced. The prayer-specific use is represented separately above.

• Lane · entry 8458

قَصَرَ

To confine, restrict, limit, withhold, or keep someone or something within bounds.

The construction may restrict a person to an action, place, possession, or object, or restrain the eyes, desire, movement, or another activity.

• Lane · entry 8458

قَصَرَ

To beat, wash, and whiten cloth or garments.

This is a specialized craft use of the transitive verb.

• Lane · entry 8458
• Lane · entry 8475

قَصَّرَ

To make a gift scanty or mean; to be deficient in liberality.

Used of failing to provide what is due or of giving less than the recipient might properly expect.

• Lane · entry 8458
• Lane · entry 8489

أَقْصَرَ

Of a woman, to give birth to short children.

A specialized Classical Arabic Form IV use, distinct from the Quranic use of desisting.

• Lane · entry 8460

تَقَاصَرَ

To feign shortness or to contract and draw oneself together.

The verb can describe a person who presents himself as short or who physically contracts himself.

• Lane · entry 8461

تَقَاصَرَ

To become abject, mean, contemptible, or despicable.

A figurative use referring to the person's spirit or self becoming diminished in status.

• Lane · entry 8461

تَقَاصَرَ

Of shade, to become contracted or shortened.

A figurative or natural-process use applied specifically to the extent of shade.

• Lane · entry 8461

اِقْتَصَرَ

To confine oneself to something, not exceed it, and be satisfied or content with it.

With عَلَى or بِ, the verb may denote limiting oneself to a matter, accepting less, or complying with a command.

• Lane · entry 8462

اِسْتَقْصَرَ

To reckon someone or something short, deficient, or below what should be done.

It may mean judging a person to have fallen short of an obligation or to have been remiss.

• Lane · entry 8463

تَقَوْصَرَ

To become contracted, with one part drawn into another.

A specialized form describing a person who becomes physically compressed or drawn together.

• Lane · entry 8464

قَصْرٌ

Falling short, remissness, laziness, or slothfulness.

The noun denotes failure to reach or perform what was required, including lack of diligence.

• Lane · entry 8465

قَصْرٌ

The utmost limit, extent, or end of an affair.

In the construction قَصْرُكَ أَنْ تَفْعَلَ كَذَا, it denotes the limit of one's power, action, or available course.

• Lane · entry 8465

قُصْرَةٌ

A close paternal cousin or other nearly related relative.

The term can be applied to a cousin through the paternal uncle, paternal aunt, maternal uncle, or maternal aunt.

• Lane · entry 8468

قُصْرَى

The lowest or flank-adjacent rib.

The precise rib varies among authorities, but it is located toward the lower side between the flank and belly.

• Lane · entry 8469

قِصَارٌ

The clipping or shortening of hair.

A verbal noun referring to cutting the hair short rather than shaving it completely.

• Lane · entry 8472

قَصِيرٌ

Short or low; by extension, limited in power, ambition, knowledge, or lineage, and concise in speech or narrative.

The figurative extensions describe restricted capacity or extent; they do not impose a restriction on the physical class of the object.

• Lane · entry 8473

قَصِيرٌ

Shortened, contracted, or confined.

This adjectival use covers things made shorter or kept within limits and is distinct from the basic adjective meaning short in stature.

• Lane · entry 8473

قَصِيرٌ

Of a horse, kept close to the dwelling and treated as precious rather than left to pasture.

A specialized conventional description of a valuable horse kept near its owners.

• Lane · entry 8473

قَصِيرَةٌ

A woman kept within the house or tent, behind a curtain, or otherwise not permitted to go out.

This Classical Arabic use concerns physical seclusion; the Quranic passive-participle form has its own entry above.

• Lane · entry 8473

مَقْصُورَةٌ

An animal retained for a household or particular owner, whose produce is reserved for them.

Especially used of a she-camel whose milk is kept for the household or for a designated animal.

• Lane · entry 8473

قِصَارَةٌ

The craft of beating, washing, and whitening clothes.

A professional or technical noun for the cloth-processing trade.

• Lane · entry 8475

قَصَّارٌ

A person who beats, washes, and whitens clothes.

The occupational noun names the practitioner of the cloth-processing craft.

• Lane · entry 8479

قَاصِرٌ

One who restrains the eyes from looking at what is not permitted.

The feminine construction قَاصِرَةُ الطَّرْفِ is especially used of a woman whose gaze is directed only toward her husband; its Quranic plural is represented above.

• Lane · entry 8480

قَاصِرٌ

Of shade, contracting or becoming shorter.

A figurative description of shade whose extent has diminished.

• Lane · entry 8480

قَوْصَرَّةٌ

A woven receptacle for dates or dried dates.

In conventional usage the name applies while the receptacle contains dates; otherwise it may be called a basket or sack.

• Lane · entry 8481

قَوْصَرَّةٌ

A woman or wife, in a figurative use.

This figurative meaning is reported as an extension of the container term.

• Lane · entry 8481

أَقْصَرُ

Shorter or shortest.

The comparative adjective has the feminine قُصْرَى and plural أَقَاصِرُ.

• Lane · entry 8482

تِقْصَارٌ

A necklace or collar that lies closely around the base of the neck.

The term denotes a necklace resembling a tight neck-band and is named for its close position at the neck.

• Lane · entry 8483

بِمَقْصَرٍ

To be content with less than one was seeking or with an inferior thing.

Used in constructions such as رَضِيَ بِمَقْصَرٍ مِنَ الأَمْرِ.

• Lane · entry 8484

مَقْصُورَةٌ

An enclosed or private compartment, apartment, or section of a larger building or area.

The noun can denote a walled mansion or chamber, a private section of a house, the imam's enclosure in a mosque, a curtained bridal canopy, or privately reserved ground.

• Lane · entry 8490

مِقْصَرَةٌ

A wooden implement used by a cloth-beater to beat garments.

The term may also refer to a suitable piece of wood, especially one made from the jujube tree.

• Lane · entry 8488