قصر

Arabic

Etymology 1

From the root ق ص ر (q-ṣ-r).

Verb

قَصُرَ (qaṣura) I, non-past يَقْصُرُ‎ (yaqṣuru)

  1. to be short; to become short
  2. to be inadequate
Conjugation

Verb

قَصَرَ (qaṣara) I, non-past يَقْصُرُ‎ (yaqṣuru)

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

Verb

قَصَرَ (qaṣara) I, non-past يَقْصُرُ or يَقْصِرُ‎ (yaqṣuru or yaqṣiru)

  1. to shorten, to curtail, to pare
Conjugation

Verb

قَصَرَ (qaṣara) I, non-past يَقْصُرُ‎ (yaqṣuru)

  1. to pen up, to lock up, to confine
Conjugation

Verb

قَصَّرَ (qaṣṣara) II, non-past يُقَصِّرُ‎ (yuqaṣṣiru)

  1. to shorten, to abbreviate (transitive)
  2. to clip the hair
  3. to fall short of
  4. to lag behind, be slothful
  5. to fail in strength
  6. to subside
  7. to come short
Conjugation
References
قَصْر

Etymology 2

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

Noun

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

  1. large stone building, castle, palace, fortress
Declension
Descendants
  • Old Catalan: [Term?]
  • Old Portuguese: alcaçar, alcaçer
  • Old Spanish: alcaçar, alcacer
  • Persian: قصر (qasr)
    • Tajik: қаср (qasr)
    • Turkish: kasır / فصر
    • Uzbek: qasr
  • Swahili: kasri

Etymology 3

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

Verb

قَصَرَ (qaṣara) I, non-past يَقْصُرُ‎ (yaqṣuru)

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

Verb

قَصَّرَ (qaṣṣara) II, non-past يُقَصِّرُ‎ (yuqaṣṣiru)

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

References

  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 234
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1880) De vocabulis in antiquis Arabum carminibus et in Corano peregrinis (in Latin), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 14
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 258–259
  • Freytag, Georg (1835), قصر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 452
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), قصر”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 839–840
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), قصر”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 1030–1031

Hijazi Arabic

Etymology 1

From the root ق ص ر (q-ṣ-r).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡasˁːar/

Verb

قَصَّر • (gaṣṣar)

third-person singular past of يِقَصِّر
  1. he shortened
  2. he fell short of
  3. he lagged behind

Etymology 2

From Arabic قَصْر (qaṣr).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡasˁur/

Noun

قَصُر • (gaṣur) m

(plural قُصور ‎(guṣūr))
  1. palace
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