قبض

Compare Hebrew קבץ (to collect, to gather).

• IPA^(key): /qa.ba.dˤa/

قَبَضَ • (qabaḍa) I (non-past يَقْبِضُ (yaqbiḍu), verbal noun قَبْض (qabḍ))

1. to seize, to take, to grab
2. to take hold of, to take possession of
3. to hold
4. to arrest
5. to receive, to collect
6. to collect, to gather

   Synonym: جَمَعَ (jamaʕa)

7. to contract, to constrict
8. to constipate
9. to oppress, to deject, to dishearten

• بَسَطَ (basaṭa)

• IPA^(key): /qab.ba.dˤa/

قَبَّضَ • (qabbaḍa) II (non-past يُقَبِّضُ (yuqabbiḍu), verbal noun تَقْبِيض (taqbīḍ))

1. to contract, to constrict
2. to give into (someone's) possession
3. to pay (a price)

• IPA^(key): /qabdˤ/

قَبْض • (qabḍ) m

1. verbal noun of قَبَضَ (qabaḍa) (form I)
2. taking possession, possession
3. confiscation
4. constipation
5. receipt of a sum
6. (poetry) suppression of the fifth letter of a foot when it is quiescent

• → Amharic: ቀብድ (ḳäbd)
• → Azerbaijani: qəbz
• → Persian: قبض
  • → Bengali: কবজ (koboj)
  • → Hindi: क़ब्ज़ (qabz)
  • → Urdu: قبض
• → Ottoman Turkish: قبض (kabız)
  • → Turkish: kabız
• → Swahili: kabidhi
• → Uzbek: qabz

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “قبض”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[1], London: W.H. Allen
• Lane, Edward William (1863-1893) “قبض”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate.

From Arabic قَبَضَ (qabaḍa).

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.badˤ/

قَبَض • (gabaḍ) I (non-past يِقْبُض (yigbuḍ))

1. to arrest

   Synonym: مِسِك (misik)

2. to seize, to take, to grab
3. to take hold of, to take possession of
4. to hold

From Arabic قَبَّضَ (qabbaḍa).

• IPA^(key): /ɡab.badˤ/

قبض • (gabbaḍ) II (non-past يِقَبِّض (yigabbiḍ))

1. (rare) to pay (a price)

From Arabic قَبْض (qabḍ).

• IPA^(key): /ɡabdˤ/

قبض • (gabḍ) m

1. taking possession, possession
2. confiscation

Borrowed from Arabic قَبْض (qabḍ).

قبض • (qabz)

1. bill, receipt
2. (medicine) constipation
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 52—53:

     از قضا سرکنگبین صفرا فزود
     روغن بادام خشکی می‌‌نمود
     از هلیله قبض شد اطلاق رفت
     آب آتش را مدد شد همچو نفت

     az qazā sirkangabin safrā fuzūd
     rōġan-i bādām xuškī mē-nimūd
     az halīla qabz šud itlāq raft
     āb ātaš rā madad šud hamčō naft

     By Divine destiny, oxymel increased the bile,
     and oil of almonds was producing dryness.
     From [giving] myrobalan constipation resulted, relaxation ceased;
     And water fed the flames, like naphtha.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

3. (archaic) seizure, taking possession of

Borrowed from Classical Persian قَبْض (qabz), from Arabic قَبْض (qabḍ). First attested in c. 1657 as Middle Hindi قبض (qbẓ /⁠qabz⁠/).^[1]

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /qəbz/
• (colloquial) IPA^(key): [qə.bəz]
• Rhymes: -əbz

قَبْض • (qabz) m (Hindi spelling क़ब्ज़)

1. (pathology) constipation
2. (literally) capture, seizure
3. arrest, contraction (of the heart or in illness etc.)
4. (obsolete) receipt (of payment)

• “قبض”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “قبض”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]