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قُبْضَةٌ ذ (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K) [A handful;] what one takes with the hand, or grasps; (S, K;) مِنْ كَذَا [of such a thing]; (Mgh;) as, for instance, مِنْ سَوِيقٍ [of meal of parched barley]; (S;) or مِنْ تَمْرٍ [of dates]; (S, A, Msb;) i. e. كَفّاً; (S;) as also ↓ قَبْضَةٌ ; (S, M, A, K;) but the former is the more common; (S, K;) and ↓ قَبِيضَةٌ : (B:) or the first is a subst. in the sense of مَقْبُوضٌ, and the second is a n. un.: (TA:) the pl. of the first is قُبَضٌ. (TA.) You say also, كَفِّى ↓ هٰذَا قَبْضَةُ This is the quantity that my hand grasps. (M.) See two other exs. of the second word, and an ex. of the third, in 1, before the first break in the paragraph. It is also said in the Kur, [xxxix. 67,] وَا@لْأَرْضُ جَمِيعًا يَوْمَ القِيَامَةِ ↓ قَبْضَتُهُ , i. e. قُبْضَتُهُ, for قَبْضَةٌ is an inf. n. [of un.] used as a subst., or is for ذَاتُ قَبْضَةٍ, (Bd,) and the literal signification is, [And the earth altogether shall be] his handful [on the day of resurrection]; (Bd, Jel;) meaning in his possession (Jel, TA) alone, (TA,) and at his free and absolute disposal: (Jel:) Th says, that this is like the phrase هٰذِهِ الدَّارُ فِى قَبْضَتِى, meaning as explained above, voce قَبْضٌ; but this opinion is not valid:) (M:) another reading is ↓ قَبْضَتَهُ , in the accus. case, (M, Bd,) as an adv. n.; that which is determinate being thus likened to what is vague; (Bd;) and this is allowed by some of the grammarians; but it is not allowed by any one of the grammarians of El-Basrah. (M.) It is also said, in the trad. of Bilál and the dates, فَجَعَلَ يَجِىْءُ بِهِ قُبَضًا قُبَضًا [And he set about bringing them (the pronoun referring to التَّمْر the dates) handfuls by handfuls]. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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