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Quran

Arabic dictionary

Dictionary Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane (d. 1876)

Entry قسم

1 قَسَمَ and ↓ قَسَّمَ He divided; parted; divided in parts or shares; distributed.

قَسَمَ أَمْرَهُ, or ↓ قَسَّمَهُ: see 3 in art. عدل.

2 قَسَّمَ see 1.

3 قَاسَمَهُ الشَّىْءَ He divided with him the thing, each of them allotting to himself his share, or portion.

قَاسَمَهُ بِاللّٰهِ He swore to him by God.

4 أَقْسَمَ عَلَيْهِ He conjured him; he said بِحَقِّكَ. (Mgh, art. طمر.) 5 تَقَسَّمَ It (a thing) was, or became, divided, or distributed. (MA.) See an ex. in a verse, voce شَتَّانَ.

7 اِنْقَسَمَ الَى أَقْسَامٍ كَثِيرَةٍ It was divided into many parts.

10 اِسْتَقْسَمَ He sought to know what was allotted to him, by means of the أَزْلَام, (S, * Mgh, and Har, p. 465,) and what was not allotted to him. (Mgh, Har.) قِسْمٌ A division: (Msb:) and particularly (Msb) a portion, or share. (S, Msb, K.) Pl. أَقْسَامٌ.

لَيْسَ مِنْ أَقْساَمِ كَذَا It is not a part of such a thing; it does not belong, or appertain, to such a thing; it is independent of such a thing. قَسَمٌ A conjurement. See أَقْسَمَ عَلَيْهِ.

An oath (S, Msb, K) by God [&c.]. (Msb, K.) An asseveration.

وَاوُ القَسَمِ The و denoting an oath. قِسْمَةٌ is also used in the sense of مَقْسُومٌ [meaning A thing, or collection of things, divided into portions, or shares]: (Bd and Jel in liv. 28:) a portion, or share; like قِسْمٌ: (Msb:) [and portions, or shares; as in the phrase,] نُخْرِجُ طَرِيقًا مِنْ بَيْنِ قِسْمَةِ الأَرْضِ أَوِ الدَّارِ [We will exclude a way, or passage, from among the portions, or shares, of the land, or the house]. (Mgh in art. رفع.) قَسَّامٌ An officer of the Kádee, who divides inheritances.

E.W. Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (8 parts, London, 1863-93) is a major Arabic-English dictionary based on 112 sources, mostly medieval ones, along with al-Zabidi's Taj al-Aroos (also included in Lisaan.net). Lane died before he could finish the work, his great-nephew Stanley Lane-Poole finished it, publishing Volumes VI, VII and VIII from 1877–1893 using Lane's incomplete notes. Lane-Pool's work is of lower quality than Lane's. The work of Reinhart Dozy (see below) was meant as a supplement to Lane's work that covers modern Arabic (Lane focused on classical Arabic only). The digital text for the Lexicon was sourced from Tufts University under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License. We used a TXT version created by an internet user named Navid-ul-Islam. Lisaan.net's version of the Lane Lexicon corrects various errors from both the Persues project (such as erroneous transcriptions of the Persian letter ژ) and the TXT version. Lisaan.net's version also provides helpful automatic annotations on the various abbreviations used by Lane.