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مُقَصِّرٌ ذ act. part. n. of 2, q. v. and see قَصَّارٌ. ― -b2- [Deficient in liberality or bounty:] one who makes a gift scanty, or mean. (TA.) A poet says “ فَقُلْتُ لَهُ قَدْ كُنْتَ فِيهَا مُقَصِّرًا
” [And I said to him Thou hast been deficient in liberality with respect to them; app. meaning she-camels or the like;] i. e., thou hast not given of them nor given to drink from them [of their milk]. (M.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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