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قَانِصٌ ذ One who takes, captures, catches, insnares, entraps, hunts, or chases, wild animals or the like; as also ↓ قَنِيصٌ (S, M, A, K) and ↓ قَنَّاصٌ : (S, M, K:) or ↓ قَنِيصٌ signifies persons who do so, collectively; and is [a quasi-pl. n.] similar to كَلِيبٌ and مَعِيزٌ and حَمِيرٌ: (IJ, TA:) the pl. of قَانِصٌ is قُنَّاصٌ: (A, TA:) and ↓ قَانِصَةٌ signifies the same as the pl.: and also low, vile; or mean, persons. (TA. [See also طُمْرُورٌ, in an explanation of which the sing. قَانِصٌ is app. used in like manner.]) You say, جَآءَ القَنِيصُ بِالْقَنِيصِ The sportsman came with the game taken. (A.) And it is said in a trad., فَتُخْرِجُ النَّارُ عَلَيْهِمْ قَوَانِصَ (assumed tropical:) [And the fire of hell shall send forth against them snatchers]; meaning, it shall snatch them in pieces like as the beast or bird of prey snatches its prey: the sing. is ↓ قَانِصَةٌ : (K, TA:) or, as some say, the meaning is, sparks like the قَوَانِص of birds, i. e., their حَوَاصِل. (TA.) See what follows.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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