قصر

قَصُرَ • (qaṣura) I (non-past يَقْصُرُ (yaqṣuru), verbal noun قَصْر (qaṣr) or قِصَر (qiṣar) or قَصَارَة (qaṣāra))

1. to be or become short, to shorten
2. to be inadequate

قَصَرَ • (qaṣara) I (non-past يَقْصُرُ (yaqṣuru), verbal noun قُصُور (quṣūr))

1. to fall short of, to miss [with عَن (ʕan)]
2. to unable, to be incapable of [with عَن (ʕan)]
3. to desist, to refrain, to abstain [with عَن (ʕan)]

قَصَرَ • (qaṣara) I (non-past يَقْصُرُ (yaqṣuru) or يَقْصِرُ (yaqṣiru), verbal noun قَصْر (qaṣr))

1. to shorten, to curtail, to pare

قَصَرَ • (qaṣara) I (non-past يَقْصُرُ (yaqṣuru), verbal noun قَصْر (qaṣr))

1. to detain, to lock up, to pen up, to put in jail
2. to hold back, to keep or restrict (within certain limits), to restrain
3. to confine to, to limit to, to restrict to

قَصَّرَ • (qaṣṣara) II (non-past يُقَصِّرُ (yuqaṣṣiru), verbal noun تَقْصِير (taqṣīr))

1. (transitive) to shorten; to abbreviate
   1. (transitive) to clip (hair)
2. to fall short, to shirk one's responsibilities, to not pull one's weight
3. to lag behind, to be slothful
4. to fail in strength
5. to subside
6. to come short

From Aramaic קַצְרָא (qaṣrā), from Latin castrum. Cognate to Classical Syriac ܩܰܨܪܳܐ (qaṣrā), Hebrew קְצָרָה (qəṣārâ), Byzantine Greek κάστρον (kástron).

قَصْر • (qaṣr) m (plural قُصُور (quṣūr))

2. large stone building from which power is projected, castle, palace

Back-formed from قَصَّار (qaṣṣār, “walker, fuller”).

قَصَرَ • (qaṣara) I (non-past يَقْصُرُ (yaqṣuru), verbal noun قَصْر (qaṣr) or قِصَارَة (qiṣāra))

1. to wash, to scour, to full, to walk

قَصَّرَ • (qaṣṣara) II (non-past يُقَصِّرُ (yuqaṣṣiru), verbal noun تَقْصِير (taqṣīr))

1. to wash, to scour, to full, to walk

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• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1880) De vocabulis in antiquis Arabum carminibus et in Corano peregrinis‎^[1] (in Latin), Leiden: E. J. Brill, →DOI, page 14
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• Guidi, Ignazio (1879) Della sede primitiva dei popoli semitici (in Italian), Rome: Tipi del Salviucci, page 16
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “قصر”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[3], London: W.H. Allen, pages 839–840
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From Arabic قَصَّرَ (qaṣṣara).

• IPA^(key): /ɡasˤ.sˤar/

قصر • (gaṣṣar) II (non-past يقصر (yigaṣṣir))

1. to shorten
2. to fall short of
3. to lag behind

From Arabic قَصْر (qaṣr).

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.sˤur/

قصر • (gaṣur) m (construct state قَصْر (gaṣr), plural قصور (guṣūr))

1. palace

   في أيّة قصُر؟ في قصْر الحمرا

   fi ayyat gaṣur? fi gaṣr-alḥamra

   in which palace? in Alhambra palace

From Arabic قُصْر (quṣr).

• IPA^(key): /ɡu.sˤur/

قصر • (guṣur) m (construct state قُصْر (guṣr))

1. shortness