Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

قَعَصَهُ: see 4, throughout.

قُعِصَتِ الغَنَمُ The sheep, or goats, were seized, or affected, with the disease called قُعَاص, q. v. (Ṣ, Ḳ.)

اقعصهُ He slew him on the spot; (Ṣ, A, Ḳ;) as alsoقَعَصَهُ↓, (A, Ḳ,) aor. ـَ {يَقْعَصُ}, (Ḳ,) inf. n. قَعْصٌ: (TḲ:) or both signify he slew him quickly: or the former signifies he struck, or shot at, it, (a thing, or an object of the chase,) and it died on the spot, before it was [struck or] shot: and he hastened and completed, or made sure or certain, his (a man's) slaughter: andقِعْصَةٌ↓ is a subst. derived from it [app. signifying the act]. (L, TA.) You say also, اقعصهُ بِالرُّمْحِ, andقَعَصَهُ↓, He thrust him, or pierced him, with the spear, quickly: or from behind. (TA.)

انقعص He died. (Ḳ.)

قَعْصٌ A quick death: (Ṣ, A, Ḳ:) and a quick slaughter; as alsoقَعَصٌ↓. (TA.) You say, مَاتَ قَعْصًا He (a man, Ṣ, A) died on the spot, from a blow or a shot. (Ṣ, A, Ḳ.) And it is said in a trad., مَنْ خَرَجَ مُجَاهِدًا فِى سَبِيلِ ٱللّٰهِ فَقُتِلَ قَعْصًا فَقَدِ ٱسْتَوْجَبَ المَآبَ [Whoso goeth forth as a warrior in the cause of God, and is slain quickly, or suddenly, has a just claim to the permanent abode of happiness in the other world]: (Ṣ,* TA:) alluding to the مآب mentioned in the Ḳur xxxviii. 24 and 39. (Az, TA.)

طَعْنَةٌ قَعْصَآءُ A thrust, or wound, with a spear or the like, that kills quickly. (TA.)

قُعَاصٌ A certain disease which attacks sheep or goats, (Ṣ, A, Ḳ,) in consequence of which something flows from their noses, (TA,) killing them immediately, (Ṣ, A, Ḳ,) on the spot: (A:) and which kills men on the spot: (A:) and a certain disease in the breast, or chest, which is as though it broke the neck. (Lth, Ḳ.) It is said in a trad., وَمُوتَانٌ يَكُونُ فِى النَّاسِ كَقُعَاصِ الغَنَمِ [And a mortality which shall be among men, like the قعاص of sheep or goats]. (Ṣ.)

مِقْعَاصٌ A lion that kills quickly; as alsoمِقْعَصٌ↓ andقَعَّاصٌ↓. (Ḳ.)

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غَنَمٌ مَقْعُوصَةٌ Sheep, or goats, seized, or affected, with the disease called قُعَاص: (Ṣ, Ḳ:) accord. to IAạr, شَاةٌ مِقْعَاصٌ↓ signifies a sheep, or goat, having the mortal disease so called. (TA.)